Rene match the blank to your casting style. You will enjoy the rod more. Fast is not better for a lot of folks. Don't get me wrong I love my Loomis rods but my main rod is the $50 Cablea's 3 forks package. The 8 wt Loomis did get a good work last weekend :~>
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 6:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [VFB] Rod building question Hmmm, maybe the next blank I buy will be a fast one. The blank I have here is a 8 wt, therefore I decided to use the traditional snake guides, like most recommended. I was asking this question because I thaught, that a line which is 'connected' on different points of the rod might influence the loading of the rod. If I use more guides - and therefore the line would have build a smaller angeles with the rod - this might bend the rod different, at least on the backcast. Probably I should make a test, thread the line through all guides of a rod and use only the tip guide. Let's see if the rod is differently bend. Rene Martin Westbeek wrote: > 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 >> -------- snip ---->> > >
