Acid Wrap Rod Guide Spacing

Install the tip top at 180 and the stripper at 0.

Acid wrap rod guide spacing. This rod is a lamiglas 6640 blank built as an acid wrap guide layout. Mount the reel and run line through the stripper and tip. Lure building fly tying ice fishing gear equipment tools supplies thread handles. Rod building layout acidrod com click here to download guide spacing tool inches guide spacing tool metric free degree wheel download for spiral acid rod guide layout works well with decorative buttwrap.

In a nutshell this guide placement. Although not too difficult it is a little mysterious at first. Put a running guide where the line hits 180 and 1 2 transition guides in between. 4 guide spacing chart 9 15 22 5 31 5 42 5 7 8 10 16 20 size.

I use pretty much the same spacing as a conventional. Place running guides as static testing indicates. Yes you can get away with fewer guides with an acid wrap but more guides give more even loading of the rod reduce casting friction and each guide must absorb less of the. The spacing between the guides where the line goes from the top of the rod stripper guide to the bottom of the rod 1st 180 degree guide should take place in 8 10 this spacing should also fall on the stiff part of the blank that resists bending when the rod is loaded.

The stripper may or may not end up at 0. This is how we set up an acid wrap. Custom rod builders have been building casting rods with spiral or acid wrapped guides for years. There are some givens that should be maintained.

An acid rod or spiral wrapped rod is a conventional or casting rod who s guides start out on top of the blank and then rotate around the rod leaving the final guides and tip under the blank. When fighting a fish or setting the hook especially on heavier fish the natural tendency is for the rod. 30 guide set up for 6 6 freshwater spinning rod.