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Post 23 May 2023, 20:12 • #1 
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Hoping someone would know, I need to replace a stripping guide on a G series graphite, anyone know the size or style of stripping guide used?
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Post 24 May 2023, 07:44 • #2 
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Can you provide the length and line weight of the rod? Also, if you can take another picture of the guide with something for size reference that would be great. A coin works great.


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Post 24 May 2023, 09:16 • #3 
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it's on 7'7" rod, I believe its a 9mm


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Post 24 May 2023, 10:08 • #4 
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Thanks. Could be a challenge to find a matching guide. You might try Ebay. Another option would be to find a brown agate guide in 9mm.


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Post 24 May 2023, 11:35 • #5 
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That looks like an older Fuji guide. A roadbuilder friend told me a long time ago that you can dye those guides. He dyed them to look like a red agate guide with red dye. However, I think you could dye one with brown die and I think you could get it close to this one. Might be worth a try.


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Post 25 May 2023, 11:31 • #6 
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The guide is a Perfection ceramic (I think the model was ACS) with a ceramic ring inside a shock ring. We used 8s and 10s up through 7 weight rods and 10s and 12s on heavier rods. The guide came with shock ring that was clear gray and we dyed them brown with Ritt dye. The one pictured is an early model. Later guides had a flat rather than rounded ring around the shock ring. Probably a cost cutting measure. I believe most rod companies used those same Perfection ceramics in the 70s and 80s. Hopkins and Holloway came up with a very similar guide and when Perfection shut down we used those.


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Post 25 May 2023, 12:32 • #7 
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They definitely look like Perfections, but I have never tried dying them. They offered them in 2 frame designs, one the round as pictured, and then what I call the less expensive version that had a stamped steel frame. I have quite a number of both of them in 8, 10 and 12. I think I have some dye and will see what happens when I try it on a couple of them


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