I went with alconite single foot guides and got a fairly big tip top so I can reel knots and bobbers and loops through if neccessary.

Did not go with a real fancy real seat or handle - I went with middle of the road stuff - and next time will probobly go even a little lower end on the reel seat, but might turn my own handles eventually -

Would also be fun to try out the various recoil and snake etc guides for experimentaion- when not doing that, I'll just go cheap as long as it functions well, because even the inexpensive stuff seems to have very decent quality and from what I've learned, in my over analyzation of this stuff, as long as it isn't plastic and whatever guides you use have at least a hard chrome coating - and you have maybe one ceramic stripper. None of it really matters all that much. Its mostly personal prefferance. Hope this helps some overwhelmed beginner in the future.