Another thing you can do, Rene, is make sure that you use double-foot snake guides, instead of the single foot variety. Like everyone else has said, this won't make much of a difference, but it will stiffen up the action of the rod a bit.
Also, something that we've all touched on but no-one has really mentioned outright...all of these suggestions (with the exception of actually cutting the blank) will result in varying degrees of added weight to the finished product. Aside from making the darn thing heavy and difficult to cast, too much weight towards the tip can change the balance point of the rod and may well throw the action WAY off-kilter if you're not careful. In short, I agree with everyone else...buy the stiffest blank you can find. A G. Loomis IMX (Slate) blank comes immediately to mind... Just my humble 2 cents... Rix --- Rene Zillmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > List and rod-builders, > > question sounds crazy but let's see what it steeres > up. > > You know, I'm in the process of building a new rod. > I've already the blank. > > I want to build the rod as stiff as possible. Is > there a dependency > between the positioning and the number of guides to > the stiffness of the > finished rod? Or depends the stiffness of the rod > from the blank only? > > I can imagine that the distance between the guides > would modify the > finished rod's action a bit. Any knowledge ot there > about this? > > BTW: The Rhines level is rising slowly. Hope I can > return to fishing the > Rhine in some weeks! > > Rene > in Germany > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
