I had two REC guides break on my TFO BVK 8-weight. My fault they broke,
I was using the guides as leverage to disassemble the rod when I had
muddy, wet hands. But when TFO replaced the rod, they didn't have REC
guides on the new one. My shop owner said they quit using them because
of excessive breakage.
Jack
Austin
On 4/10/2012 6:18 PM, Neville Gosling wrote:
Hi Tony:
The REC recoil guides were fitted to my Swedish Guideline LeCie
double-handed rod which I brought back from the UK a few years ago.
These guides were the recoil single foot style as originally fitted to
the rod. The problem was that of breakage. Last September on my
extended trip to Northern BC for steelhead, I discovered first one,
then two broken guides, necessitating a trip to the local town for
some emergency replacements (not recoil) which I held in place with
fly tying thread followed by a couple of coats of Sally Hansen's. Then
in January, on a lengthy day trip , I had another guide break.
Interestingly, the broken guides were the top two of the middle joint
and the bottom one of the top joint. In other words, they were all
sequential. Now, I'm not over lining the rod and I don't know the
cause, but each guide fractured in the same place, just as it leaves
the thread wrap. I contacted REC and at their request, I mailed them
two of the broken guides. They took a long time to respond and then
sent me two replacements, which was no good as they knew that 3 were
broken. I felt the whole lot were suspect and that they all should be
replaced. I had a long telephone conversation with Dave Lyons of the
Angler's Workshop and settled on complete replacement with Snake brand
snakes with a fuji tiptop. This is the only way that I could be
reasonably sure that the problem should not re-occurr. Maybe the batch
fitted to my rod was just a bad batch, but I wouldn't buy another rod
with REC single legs and I provided that information to Guideline's
chief rod designer Lief Stavmo as feedback.
I like the rod, but not the guides.
Neville (Nev) Gosling
On 2012-04-10, at 3:28 PM, Anthony Spezio wrote:
What do you not like about the Recoil guides. I have been using Snake
Brand Snake guides on all the Bamboo rods I made for the past 12
years. I like the Snake Brand guides.
Tony
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