Spencer Phipps Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like you got your answer hopefully, had me > confused since G Loomis still make a classic > series GLX. My very early 6 wt. GLX from 1993 or > 1994 has the plated stainless guides Bob > discribed. To clarify. Loomis glx before 1994 used Pacbay tich (gunsmoke) single foot guides? Loomi
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Re: Pac Bay Guides? Posted by: Bob Batson (---.olypen.com) Date: June 28, 2001 06:10PM There are two vendors that supply SIC inserts to this industry, and they are both in Japan. Fuji uses one, PB and I the other. The reason that we first started (1991) developing the TIN and TiCH processes for rod guides and tops, was because we were trying to come up with something that no one else in the
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Bob Batson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are two vendors that supply SIC inserts to > this industry, and they are both in Japan. Fuji > uses one, PB and I the other. > The reason that we first started (1991) developing > the TIN and TiCH processes for rod guides and > tops, was because we were trying to come up with > something
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Thanks for replying Herb. I've tested Snake Brand flyguides and rec flyguides. They are very good ones but grooving is an issue. I live in Bariloche, Patagonia Argentina. A volcano exploted some years ago. There is a lot of silic dust in the river. Silic dust is letal for guides. The only fly guides that have never grooved were those used on the glx classic. Do you know the brand or
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Hello. Im re wrapping a GLX classic fly rod. Any idea single foot guides brand used by Gloomis those days. They are really wonderfull fly guides I have had groove issues with many fly guides except those ones. Thxs in advance and sorry for my english.
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