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It hasn't caught on because people are robots. They are afraid of how it looks, nothing more, nothing less.
I spine my rods much more accurately than most - I use a Vertical Spine finder, and line up the reel seat at the same time I'm spining the rod. I don't have to worry about mis-marking the blank by 1/10th of a degree, etc, etc.
If you mis-spine a Spinning rod, what is going to happen that makes it such a big deal? Same holds true for a spiral wrapped rod, what's going to happen?
The concept is really, really, simple, and has nothing to do with heavy or light rods, etc. Take a piece of 1/4" masking tape, make only ONE turn around each guide to hold them in place - and place them traditional method. Take the rod fishing, watch the guides get ripped out of the masking tape. Do the same spiral wrapped, and watch the guides stay put. That's the simplest way I can explain it.
I've jigged 2-5# Bluefish on a Calstar 700XL with guides held in place with Surgical tubing. And caught a ton of them.
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