"Acid wrap" ?

[reelecstasy]

It is also far from "new" his name escapes me but I know it was being done in like 1908-1909. The reasons for doing so are as Dave mentioned, torque transfer and also by doing a "acid" wrap sometimes you can eliminate a guide or two thus less wieght. Also you don't see too many people doing them, why, I have no idea.......
I am just enjoying learning a new craft, keeps me busy on the days the wife would like me to stick around the house, Not sure she had wrapping rods in mind but, oh well....
Thanks alot Dave, that is pretty much how I was setting it up. Actually, I was skipping the first 2 or 3 guides and putting the guide on the 180 axis with the reel in place, then putting the first 2 guides on following the transition of the line around the rod, hoping to minimize the amount of direction changes the line takes, (like that just made any sense)

[fishaholic18]

Chris, here are a few sites with lots of good info on rodbuilding.
Check out the photo galerry in the 1st one.

http://www.rodbuilding.org/list.php?2

http://www.visualwrap.com/

[fishaholic18]

Chris, i was just thinking about this more, reason some guys off set the 1st guide to left is to make it easier to level the line on the reel with your thumb an non level wind reels of course.

[Fishaddict]

I spiral all of my conventional rods. Get a lot of weird looks and comments, but thats okay. I aslo off-set my stripper guide about 30 degrees to the left. It does make it a lot easier to thumb the line back onto a nonlevel wind reel. Just guied the line to the right, and it automatically goes back to the left on it's own. Some say the off-set stripper will cause the line to pile up on the left side of the reel when you use a level wind, but I have never had that problem. Give spiral wrapping a try, you just might find something you really like.

[striperondafly]

Me too - all conventionals I do are spiral.

Once I landed my first bass on my own spiral I was sold. The advantage of the reduced torque really comes into play when you fight a strong fish like a 40-85lb class Black Drum or any good sized Tuna - heck anything that fights like a bulldog.

Fishaholic - you explained it VERY well!!!!! Sometimes when I try to explain it to others they look at me like I'm speaking French oke:

I have read one negative thing. I read on a rodbuilding forum awhile back that the blank receives the torque instead of you and it can cause "premature" blank failure. Note - they author fights giant bluefin - he wasn't talking about striper rods or tog. He had a few bust on bruisers where he felt it was the design that caused the failure.

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by striperondafly

I have read one negative thing. I read on a rodbuilding forum awhile back that the blank receives the torque instead of you and it can cause "premature" blank failure. Note - they author fights giant bluefin - he wasn't talking about striper rods or tog. He had a few bust on bruisers where he felt it was the design that caused the failure.

Now that's interesting... Have to look into that.