Guide Wraps: No Glue, Tape or Clamping on Guide Needed!

This is a technique I came up with a few days ago. I'm sure I'm not the first one to come up with this idea but I haven't seen it before so I thought I would share it. It is pretty easy to get a guide foot in place and locked down for finishing up the wrap using this method and it makes covering the point of the guide foot an easy task.
There may be some draw backs to this method...but for my rod building, I think this method will do an adequate job of securing a guide to a rod.
Let me know what you think and if you have any other methods you would like to share, please let me know!

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[lgclark]

Demonstrate how to do that with a snake guide.

[mikejames]

Excellent method, love the little bit of twiddling to get that point to sit nicely into the whipping, great job.

[MrSteve]

For us DIYers that like it simple and inexpensive.  Good job.

[scottdacey]

I use this method all the time since I first saw your video.

[boognish.]

This helped me so much. Thank you sir

[bekimhasangjekaj]

Good job.i wrap all my guides but your method is much beter .this video was very helpful .thank you and greetings from Republic of Kosovo

[rweakley]

I can't fathom how this would be any less structurally sound than taping it in place first. Great technique; I'll have to give it a try!

[luisvillarreal]

Tip: Bring along some small plastic tie wraps If your out fishing. If one of your rod guides becomes loose and you don't have a spare rod and reel combo, use two tie wraps on the guide foot to get you through the rest of the day. Just keep the tie wrap nub at the under part of the rod.

[partner]

I've always taped my guides on to hold them for wrapping, but seems to me you achieve the same results w/ this method w/ less aggravation. I like it.

[fiorevitola]

Great tip! It solves that problem of staring the wrap on the guide.

[sgtzang]

good diy ! great calm voice and a bucketful of rods to fix now !

[Matescium]

This is first time I am watching such great technique....

[Gasaraki]

Tiny dot of super glue works well but that looked so much cleaner and no messy glue to worry about 👍👍👍

[nikkiedmond]

Thanx for sharing! I am attempting my first rod rebuild on an old cyber stick baitcaster that my father handed down to me. That rod has caught the biggest large mouth and small mouth bass I've ever seen.

[JoseGarcia-rnwv]

i think that was an awesome tip thank you your tips have help me learn how to wrap i am going to start doing my own wrapping going to buy your gig for wrapping rod

[Bassinman]

Nice vid. Your wraps look sweet and compact even without an excessive burnishing, and a great idea that I have used with larger guides. I do however, use a narrow strip of the Dollar General, etc., cheap/thin packaging tape laid across the tip of the guide foot, but only after the guide has been filed and tapered to an exact fit so that there are no ridges to hang thread on (and sometimes sanded smooth with 600 grit after filing when size A thread is used. Not as necessary with C, D, or E). The 1/8" - 1/4" tape strip is just a buffer to help prevent cutting of the wraps after they are completed and epoxied, when the rod flexes with casting and landing fish - much like an underwrap helps prevent gouging of the rod blank during flexing on boat/trolling/tuna rods. Applying the tape is easy because after checking for perfect fit, you just lay the tape across the guide foot, then center guide as needed onto the blank, then press down each side of tape until they meet at the bottom of the rod. Carefully run a razor blade, or X-Acto knife, down the joining of the tape joint to trim off the excess. I do this on all my medium-light to ultra-light builds and haven't had a complaint since I started building in 1972 (about an estimated 125 - 150 or so in medium-light to ultralight). Snyper Customs.

[PondsSoloFishing]

The least I could do is come check out your channel! Why have I not seen this channel before?!?! This is exactly what I'm looking to get into eventually... I break rods like crazy... I would love to start breaking my own, hahaha.

[jimmycrainer]

Really cool Teaching there Kev.... it really does work!!!
Always enjoy see'n your tips and tricks...

[roblepl]

Great tip. Liked the way you cut at the end before pulling with the loop. I am a beginner rod builder. This video will definitely make my next build better. Thanks

[avonbylynn]

I'm wanting to start making my own custom rods. It is on my List.