Too many running guides??

[pbadad]

I will be doing a rapid choke design and it looks like 7 runners. I may use a couple of KB single foots and KT's for the runners . I have KL-H in mind but waiting to see if Fuji make the RV in SS/ alconite. 2 RV and a K12M ti/alconite >100.00. Never built a full layout single foot surf rod but it's a beach rod (no rock). I did my last 2 rods double foot transitions and KT's to the tip. like the crispness and light weight.

[ed morini]

I like your thinking concerning the single foot guides, although in my builds I worry about "Canal Trips" with single foot. I am currently doing 2 ssb 108 3M old school blanks one spinning the other conventional and will be using single foot with a rapid reduction set up. I have this in double foot conventional for smaller eeling. I also hace 2 SSU 120 1mh blanks and 2 ssb1362f for pencils and I am weighing options on these blanks.

[paradoxjim]

Originally Posted by ed morini

I am currently doing 2 ssb 108 3M old school blanks one spinning the other conventional and ...

Ed-

You have me confused here. Old style makes me thing of the fiberglass mooching blank. I don't see a Super Surf listed as a 1083, only a 1081.

I am building a mooching blank with single foot Minima guides. It's actually a rebuild of an old S-glass blank. I am really looking forward to using it with the lightened load of guides on it's length.

[ed morini]

I think the confusion stems from the blank designation... ssb was the old Lamiglas designation for s-glass, so its read as s-glass surf blank, these were not the tradtional Lami yellow blanks but were chestnut (or shades thereof).
Lamiglass had two fiberglass 108 3m blanks if I remember correctly, a Mb 108 3m which was a mooching blank rated 1-3 and a BT 108 3M which was a boat and trolling blank which was a line rated blank and if memory serve had a larger tip and butt diameter. The MB 108 3m (fiberglass) rated for 1-3 oz. make a great surk blank and are tough blanks, the BT made a heavier stick and could handle heavier weights. Lamiglas for awhile, and I forget when the y discontinued them, had a line of s-glass that mirrored some of their fiberglass surf blanks. I have always thought the ssb blanks were a cut above and the ssb 136 2f my favorite pencil blank. Graphite killed the series, although I notice, Rod Geeks has a series of s-glass blanks.
I think your guide selection should prove to be quite effective on this blank.

Ed

[ed morini]

On another matter, although I have a stach of Gudebrod nylon, what are you guys using. Other than maderia for the limited crosswraps I've done, I have been sing the Gudebrod, any suggestions for an old guy.

Ed