Agree Fairly compelling arguments, excellent testimonial. but I’d be interested in knowing the weight of the guides

These seems pretty cool. I’m going to give them a try on my next build. I have used other single foot guides and did not see any issues with them.

Snake brand has quite a good reputation IMO so I’m sure these guides will live up to their standards!! Now I just need a new blank to put them on…

They look like nice guides and with the concave radius I’ll be using them as a tip-top too.

These look beautiful and very expensive! I have built most of my rods using Hopkins and Holloway single foot, light wire guides. I believe they are slightly lighter (half the wrap to consider as well) and the line runs perhaps a bit better in them compared to snakes. However don't think they are easier to mount and wrap. While there's half the wrapping to do it's always a pain to hold them in place compared to a snake guide (but I'm not the most experienced rod builder out there so maybe someone can share a trick if he knows it).

One feature of the Snake Brand single footers that has me wondering is the single "neck" compared to the competition's double and more progressive neck formed by the two strands of wire coming together into the foot in a gentle curve. I would think this might be slightly more prone to unwanted accidental line wraps which is the only downside of this style of guide I can think of. Then again this only happens with larger guide sizes and relatively fine leader that's slack - in other words it's caused by operator error and improper line management - not when casting or fishing, more likely when rigging up or if moving about with some slack in the line.