Thread: OTI popping rod
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Old 02-14-2008, 12:48 PM   #14 (permalink)
jureal
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It will be a while before it gets wrapped. I just wanted to make sure that TJ doesn't run out of the blanks. I do have a couple of short phenix jigging rods built that are 5'8" in lenght. One is a spinner with 5 guides and the other is acid wrapped with 5 guides. Both are on the same blank with almost identical handle lenghts and are rated 400g with 27kg pulling strenght. Rated for line tests 30-60 lbs. In essense, if a rod requires 5 guides for spinning, the same should generally be true for an acid wrapped one. And yes, acid wrapped rods do not need as many guides as one wrapped conventionally. Both of these rods were tested by me using static testing and the guide placements were good using only 5 guides.
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