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Bawana · 01-30-2004, 10:38 AM

, the spine (which is way overrated imo) stays on top, as opposed to the spine being on top of half the rod, and on the side out towards the tip.------------------------------------------------------QUESTION are you not spining the rods or are you spining them by rolling them on the floor?? I am spining them by the tip or say the top 12-18 inches of the blank when doing by hand or the top 10 inches when doing in a spine finder I made with ball bearings and I dont see or havent noticed all this twist.What I was refering to was the stress that would now be on only the wrapped thread as the guide is being pulled down instead of it pulling down and having the blank supporting the guide feet and distributing the stress along its surface.I wasnt refering to say 5 to 10 lbs lbs of drag but say 35lbs to 50 lbs on bigger class rods.On surf rods the point is moot as spinning guides have been mounted in the manner since the beginning.As i*m sure you know no one( with the exception of Van stall who does or did have a spinning reel for 80 lb class set-up ) makes spinning reels for the larger class rods.I never bothered to find out what guides they intended this to be used with and have never actually seen one but I had seen an add for this a couple of years ago.I believe the price was around 2 grand.Do you know anything about what guides were to be used with this and how they intended these to be mounted?I still use either E or EE thread for third or top wrap on tuna rods but most places dont carry over a D size any longer.Spiral wrapping rod idea has been around for close to 100 years and one has to wonder if it is as good as its now claimed to be why has it taken so long to become popular.I would do one just to try and I have seen it work on stand up rods but is it just a marketing ploy to build more rods in smaller class rods to be on the inside of a craze or Fad.I dont even seem to be able to understand why it has not been perfected and there are so many different styles or set-ups for this if it has been around this long and is so good.

01-30-2004, 10:38 AM	#13
Bawana Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Norwell--E.Wareham Posts: 217	, the spine (which is way overrated imo) stays on top, as opposed to the spine being on top of half the rod, and on the side out towards the tip.------------------------------------------------------QUESTION are you not spining the rods or are you spining them by rolling them on the floor?? I am spining them by the tip or say the top 12-18 inches of the blank when doing by hand or the top 10 inches when doing in a spine finder I made with ball bearings and I dont see or havent noticed all this twist.What I was refering to was the stress that would now be on only the wrapped thread as the guide is being pulled down instead of it pulling down and having the blank supporting the guide feet and distributing the stress along its surface.I wasnt refering to say 5 to 10 lbs lbs of drag but say 35lbs to 50 lbs on bigger class rods.On surf rods the point is moot as spinning guides have been mounted in the manner since the beginning.As i*m sure you know no one( with the exception of Van stall who does or did have a spinning reel for 80 lb class set-up ) makes spinning reels for the larger class rods.I never bothered to find out what guides they intended this to be used with and have never actually seen one but I had seen an add for this a couple of years ago.I believe the price was around 2 grand.Do you know anything about what guides were to be used with this and how they intended these to be mounted?I still use either E or EE thread for third or top wrap on tuna rods but most places dont carry over a D size any longer.Spiral wrapping rod idea has been around for close to 100 years and one has to wonder if it is as good as its now claimed to be why has it taken so long to become popular.I would do one just to try and I have seen it work on stand up rods but is it just a marketing ploy to build more rods in smaller class rods to be on the inside of a craze or Fad.I dont even seem to be able to understand why it has not been perfected and there are so many different styles or set-ups for this if it has been around this long and is so good.