Tough fly rod placement question

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Re: Tough fly rod placement question

Posted by: Donald La Mar (---.lightspeed.lsvlky.sbcglobal.net)

Date: May 14, 2018 08:58PM

You did not indicate if you've completed the static load test to confirm guide locations. Nonetheless, the way I do it is:

First, make the ferrule wraps (this to protect the blank during the static load test);
Tape the guides in place using the manufacturer's suggestion or your best guess;
Complete the static load test and determine the final guide locations.

If a guide is on or adjoins a ferrule wrap, the problem is really an aesthetic issue. Do whatever looks best to you - a single wrap or a ferrule and guide wrap with a space between. If you're placing trim bands outside the ferrule wraps just incorporate them where they belong even if that is on the foot of a guide.

Obviously a guide cannot be literally "mid way through a ferrule" with one foot on one section and the other on the adjoining section of the blank. If by "mid way" you mean a guide's optimum location coincides with a ferrule wrap it is no harm & no foul to make a single, combined ferrule and guide foot wrap - it happens.

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