up to a 5/6 wt single foot are fine, but heavier rods realy should use snake rings, whichever type you use remember to take a couple of spare rings and role of electricians tape incase you damage one.
i still use fiberglass rods, with slow, soft actions.
iain
Rix,
This G.Loomis IMX is the rod I'm building right now, and it's very fast indeed. Mike, a friend who teaches me to build it, and I talked about single-foot vs traditional snakes. Like you, he says that traditional snakes will result in increased stiffnes. But on a rod building site I read the opposite: there they said that double-footers are heavier, and will soften the blank. According to them the extra weight influences the action more than the larger rigid spots between the double-footers.
I wonder who's right...
Martin
Rix Benson wrote:
>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
>>
>>
>>
>
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