Rene why do you want the stiffness? You can make a dramatic change by how you use the spine of the blank. If for fighting a fish guides placed on the spine will increase stiffness, downside you lose power for casting.
Bob Haering [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.comcast.net/~haerbob3 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rene Zillmann Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VFB] Rod building question 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
