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

Demonstrate how to do that with a snake guide.

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

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

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

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!

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

This helped me so much. Thank you sir

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Brilliant tips for those of us that just need to whip a new eye on to repair a rod

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

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

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

Great idea, although since I have shaky fingers, I may still use the tape method.

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.

With this process it puts the guide directly on the blank without a protective coating between the guide foot and blank. That can cause rubbing, (and eventually a squeaking noise ) as the rod flexes underneath the guide. Normally no big deal, but it can cause it to scratch blank, and even weaken it over time. Good news is it's really easy to prevent by backing the guide foot, or blank with anything soft and flexible. You could also sit there and slowly grind guide to the point it matches a perfect curvature of the blanks roundness... but that's a nightmare (I had to do it with ReC guides every time ughhh). I agree that gluing guides suuuucks lol. I gave giant hands (I cant build any more but when I did) it made it a nightmare to do anything with smaller guides. I never liked hot glue. (Its Florida and hot glue's natural state here is goop lol) I used ferel-tite ... its s higher temp version of a glue that is used for arrow making. Now with that said, I haven't build since 2011 (fell I'll from a virus that took away the use of left arm/leg.)... so newer material might be available that us better than that. Great video, and good luck. Keep brainstorming ideas. Innovation in fishing rod building is nowhere near where it should be, and the outside-the-box thinkers like yourself are pivotal in its growth.

Great tip. For micro guides, I use rubber legs used for fly tying. They are very thin and I just wrap them several times, moderately tight and then roll them up onto the guide foot. Super easy and holds them great. I can do all my guides prior to wrapping and check alignment.

Great Tip! The only thing I would do extra is add a locking wrap. This just adds extra protection for when single-foot guides hit something in transit.

Just saw this and I have a #20 guide to replace gonna try it in a few minutes.

I never saw such a thing you are a capo, really amazing

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

Amazing instructions and videos

It is a slick simple technique.

Very interesting. I’ve never seen an eye put on properly. My repairs SURE DONT LOOK THAT GOOD!!! Thanks

Pretty neat idea!

Very helpful like that green on it as well

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.

Nice tidy job, well explained. Thanks for the tip.

Interesting approach, I'll try it on my next rod!

Great video mate cheers will be, trying that one,

You helping me a lot ! Bless from France

Nicely done. That's one thing I've always tried to figure out. Thanks for the tip

I was about to stop using flourocarbon coz it fails with any knot i tie, this one never broke this is my go to knot now, it works with mono also excellent shock resistance

Well done

Wow! Thanks for that tip!

Thanks for sharing,. One thing i can share with you, you want to end your guide wrap well before the line starts to "climb up" the blank, so maybe like 4-5 fewer wraps. The flex coat will always "fall" down hill and you end up with parts of thread showing. Also it just looks cleaner. Happy rodbuilding.

Dope! Newbie here..totally use this, thanks for sharing

Beautiful

nice and very helpful

Perfect

n honest straight forward good old American ingenuity.

I like it

Awesome friend,is the best

Well done. Thank you

Looks clean, let us know if it holds up ok

Thank you so much for sharing ❤️👏👏👏

Good onya bro. Informative video

Very cool! Thank you.

Could you do a video on correcting flaws on wraps? Bumps, bad tie offs, fuzz. Thx

Nice job!

You could use a little glue to help keep it in place. That will also fortify the hold or reinforce the eye, when pressure is applied.

Thank information

I never though of this, I 've been trying to come with some way to put on the guide without having to use tape or glue.one thing that will make the guides hold in place and come off under a load pulling from the tip if the glue cracks? Start your wrap the some way you are doing , go all the way up the guide foot to the end where you would stop and pull the tag under the wrap,, now back off one turn, take the line counter clock wise around the guide at the base were the leg meets the foot three turns , now as you come around that 3rd, turn take the line 2more turns around the other side of the guide and put the line through your pull thread. There is a name for this step I can't think what it is called, I use it on all my one footed guides ,to me it makes the guide like it finished now you could put a

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I notice the high tech cardboard box you use (same as I do 👍) and also you wind turning top of the blank away from you. What are you using to hold the thread straight down rather than out front where the thread has to come from underneath instead of straight up which I think is much better

Just did my first guide! 7 more to go...

Like, very goods video edition. Done, you have a new supporter. Thank you

Great vid.. Pls can anyone explain how to install just a new ceramic disc in the eyelet, no tell out and lost it, how do you fit them in ?

Good video 👍

Enjoyed the video. I will try this out myself. Just curious what thread did you use for the guide wraps?

That's a good idea!!!

Simple!

wow!...great vid.

Can u put nail polish after that wrap?

If anyone needs a epoxy mixer go to hobby lobby they only 25.00 I got one from a buddy yesterday he bought 2 one for me don't pay high price for these companies who makes thousands of them I made my own board and all working on my 6 spool thread holder now might even make 8 holder sewing machine motor with pedal only cost 25 to 35 dollars then either but the holder online Amazon or pick you up a few end caps for pvc as I did I did but one online as well but it didn't make it here for few weeks take the cap drill 3 or 4 holds in it run tap in Pick up sum plastic bolts they working great on my set up soon I'll have pictures of my set up I believe I've got less than 250.00 in it and I bought 4 aluminum bars to slide my up rites in the track works great

Great idea thanks what are you using to run across the threads when you’re done looks like it works great

Left some steps out - the white cord? I worked it out from other vids.

What did you use on the thread at the end to smooth out the thread lines to make it look more consistent?

I need your help is this normal fishing braid

I decided to go a step further and reveal yet another method. Took me quite a while to figure this out. take a 1/4" wood bead cut a rubber band in half and feed one end thru the bead with a whipping loop or threading tool. g Go around the rod with the tag end of rubber band and pull it thru the bead. It is now cinched to the rod and you are free to move it up or down the rod blank enabling you to slide the guide under the loop. really hope you guys see the economy of my method. Tight lines. PS, Hobby Lobby has wood beads, probably Wally's too.

My main problem is the rod thread catching on my fingers or thumb onthe skin and then splitting the thread which then gets all twisty and curly .

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Nice video !! I have a question. Would you recommend creating a ''base layer'' of thread wrapping for the guide to sit on, in order to avoid the direct contact of the metal guide and the blank? (and basically follow the whole process on top of that ''base layer'' )

you skipped thru the white thread thing at the end. I have never tied one b4.

Wow! Nice trick!

won't work with a double guide foot on casting rods though

Hey bro ! What type of line are you using to wrap your guide ? Thx....zaid from mauritius

Left out steps and what products used so I didn't really get anything from it.

@ The Fishing Hobby, Very interesting/nice video sir & thanks for sharing. Although not 100% sure on the step with white thread??. Also do you think or would you use same technic for say anything from a small icefishing rod to a bigger say trolling rod? Thanks in advance.

What size thread was that??

Where do u get the cord to buy?

What if you have a double foot ring?

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You never mentioned what type of string your using and you skipped the last part showing us how to finish it

What thread do I use

Hey you , fishing is my moto

Last part with white thread is unclear

Too you skipped the section leading into 5:01

You can't rush art.

Why make an easy job harder...just use a bit of tape

That style of guide, you are asking for it to break off. I avoid those. Get the type with metallic supports from the other side of eyelet.

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Intro way too long

To tedious