a bit about loomis and correctly spining. it's not just loomis, if you grab almost any rod in a tackle shop (just a random one, I don't care which one), and check to see if it is spined correctly I'll bet you $5 its not. the only company that i know of that does it is calstar (graphiters, the glass ones aren't) and camerons. Kistler's are supposed to be wrapped on the spine, but the ones I've seen weren't. I don't know why companies don't wrap their rods correctly, maybe they're too concerned about pumping out rods, than doing it right...you know, quantity over quality. But there is a quick fix to this...buy custom! Or I guess you could check every rod in the shop, and who knows, you might be lucky and find one done correctly.