Bamboo guides

[JOHN WILLIAMSON]

I got a wild hair and decided to refinish an older bamboo rod.This 8'-6 three peice rod had a total of 4 guides plus the tip.I'm pretty sure it could use a few more guides.My question is,do you use the same spacing as graphite? I've been alittle hesitant of taking this project on but I figured,what the hell,why not.
Thanks
John

[idabelangler]

Check out RodDNA. You could mic the taper and plug it into this software to get the guide spacings/sizes along with ferrule and tip top sizes. After you have the guide spacings start tweeking them to see where your rod performs best at. oh yeah and it's free
[url=http://www.roddna.com/:bd8cc]http://www.roddna.com/[/url:bd8cc]

[splinter]

all measurements are in inches from the tip and are placed as if the rod is joined together
4
8.5
13.75
19.75
27
35.75
46.5
58
72
the first 5 guides are on the tip and the 5th guide is put up against the male ferrule

this will work for any 8 1/2 ft 3pc cane rod
splinter