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 Post subject: Dan Craft 6'10 1wt
PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:25 pm • # 21 
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This is just my opinion here, but I wouldn't use a #2 guide on the entire rod. To me that is just too large for a 1wt line. I used 1/0 on my 2wt, and would have been comfortable with even 2/0. Smaller guides equals less line slap.

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 Post subject: Dan Craft 6'10 1wt
PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:36 pm • # 22 
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Thanks J.......but with the Recoils there is only one size smaller than 2....and it's size 1.....and I thought that the size 2 Recoil was tiny!

David

PS....Thanks everyone for the advice.


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 Post subject: Dan Craft 6'10 1wt
PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:49 am • # 23 
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I can set you up with my guide spacing for that rod, if you like. I would recommend the Batson lite wire single foots. I use these on a lot of ultralite rods. The smallest they make is a #1, so you don't have to obsess. A single foot ceramic the same color as your running guides makes a great stripper. I would use a #10, which matches a #3 running guide.

By the way, a #1 guide is about the diameter of a small tip top loops, so if you go smaller than a #1 you are actually creating a choke point at the tip. I like black thread on Dan's blanks. I use a blocking wrap ahead of the foot. Lay in your pull through along the foot of the guide. Put 2 turns of thread ahead of the guide. The thread tag is pulled along the length of the foot, so you don't have any lump. Don


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 Post subject: Dan Craft 6'10 1wt
PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:16 pm • # 24 
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Awesome Don......Thanks!

I'll take you up on your spacing advice. Thanks also for the guide recommendations. I never thought of using a larger single foot guide as a stripper.

Got any pics of your rod?

Thanks again,

David


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 Post subject: Dan Craft 6'10 1wt
PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:21 pm • # 25 
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I will try to get Robin R. to take a couple of pix. He may even have one somewhere. Let me know when you want the guide spacing. As a general note, on graphite/glass rods I prefer to put a guide on every female ferrule so that the rod appears to be a 1 piece when assembled. Don


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 Post subject: Dan Craft 6'10 1wt
PostPosted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:14 pm • # 26 
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David. On my Dan Craft 6' 10", from the tip top ring down to the next ring, 4 1/4", 4 1/4", 4 1/4", 4 3/4", 5, 5 1/4"[on ferrule], 61/2", 9", 11" [on ferrule]. 1 tip top, 8 running guides, and a stripper. Don


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