Jack: In the “good old days’ I used to buy “Perfection” snake guides made in USA but later, some that I purchased were labelled made in Mexico. In this part of the world I don’t see perfection guides much any more. The late Dave Lewis used Pac Bay guides for his custom rods & spoke well of them. I can remember replacing guides on Taiwan made rods for friends - the snake guides were soft and wore prematurely. I have a Swedish Guideline double-hander for steelhead which came with REC titanium single foot snakes which were no end of trouble as they frequently fractured at the end of the loop near the foot. I took this up with Guideline, but ended up cutting them all off and replacing with fairly large Snake Brand snakes. This unfortunately marred the finish of the rod slightly despite matching the thread colour etc. - so I don’t use it as much as I used to, but so far no more breakage problems. I can recommend English Hopkins & Holloway guides which have been used by Sage for a long time.
I would use Pac Bay simply because of Dave Lewis’s recommendation. I always try to buy good quality as I think that it does pay off in the long run. Neville (Nev) Gosling The older I get, the better I was! > On Apr 23, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Gary Webb <glwranger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jack, > > I think you might find this article interesting regarding the number and > sizes of guides : > http://www.grtu.org/newsletters/april1997/GUIDROD.APR.htm > <http://www.grtu.org/newsletters/april1997/GUIDROD.APR.htm> > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Jack Harford <jharford.i...@gmail.com > <mailto:jharford.i...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I have a 7wt 2 piece Tiger Eye Blank that I'm thinking about building and am > sorting through some of the different fly rod guides out there. > > Has anyone used the Snake Brand Universal guides? The talk about them seems > to be good, but they are more expensive? Or how about Hook and Hackle guides > or Pac Bay? > > I have seen a recommendation to use no more than 2 sizes of guides on a rod > and other recommendations for as many as 5 different sizes on a 9 ft. rod. > What do you think?? > > And the sizes seem to be different for each brand, for example Snake Brand #1 > is 4.44 mm and Hookhack and Pac Bay are 5.1mm. > > Is larger or smaller better or just different?? > > Thanks, > Jack - a beginner rod builder :) > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
