Neville-
Thanks for all the info. Regarding placing of the
guides, I've read several sources that say to tape the
guides to the rod and then take it out and cast with
it. I assume you would want the reel you're going to
use fully loaded with line on the rod, but do you also
run the line thru the guides? Seems it would put a lot
of stress on the taped guides. Do you just false cast
with no line out just to see how it feels and flexes?
Without line out, how do you get the feel of the rod
loading?
Thanks to everyone who has posted replies to this
thread.
-John
Oregon
>
> Spend your time carefully choosing the guides and
> placement of the same. I
> use 1/8 inch wide masking tape to tape my guides in
> place. This was made
> especially for rod building I believe.
>
> Neville Gosling
> Greater Vancouver, B.C.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric the Flytyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [VFB] Rod wrapping-thread colors?
>
>
> > Looking for some opinions/advice/resources.
> >
> > Building a 3 wt with a brown gloss finish. Will
> be
> > doing a diamond wrap on the butt. Is there a good
> > guide as to complimentery colors for wrapping?
> > Thinking about a garnet/candy apple red/red
> metallic
> > combination.
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
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