Rod building, retractable butt and stripper guide

[Chris M]

I have been building rods with flippin blanks. My problem is that the blanks I have been using have long butt sections that make the placement of the stripper guide too far up the rod section. Do you of blanks with shorter retractable butts?

[Chris M]

That's what happens when someone knocks on the door in the middle of a post.
Do you know of blanks with short butt sections?

[dahlberg]

Hi C,

Just locate the stripper guide where you normally would on a "non-flippin" blank, it's just the rod won't collapse down as far when you're not using it.
best,
L

[Chris M]

That's what I did on two of the rods I've built but everyone on the rod building site I use says not to let the guide hit the butt section. I don't see what the big deal is so I'm going to keep building them like you suggested, I can't stand to see the guide that far up the blank, it looks funky.
Thanks