AGS® | Guides

With the AGS guides (AGS= Air Guide System) DAIWA presents an innovation, which heralds a new era of rod construction technology. The AGS guides have a carbon fiber frame and therefore are considerably more lightweight as for instance a Fuji Titanium guide, which was, up to now one of the world’s most lightweight guides. The reduced weight optimizes the rod action - the rod gets essentially faster and resiles clearly faster. Additionally the use of carbon fiber framed guides reduces vibration of the guides during the cast – more precise casts are the consequence. Whoever takes a rod with AGS guides in the hand will realize immediately the dramatic difference to conventional guides and actions.

Thanks to AGS the tip resiles faster.

Compared to conventional guides the use of AGS guides results in a weight saving of up to 40%. This implies less strain for the blank and results in a clearly improved resilience.

The frame construction reduces the threat of tanglings. Especially at headwind and the use of braided lines the threat of losing lures due to tanglings at the guides is high. AGS guides enable an "escape" of the line at tanglings without knots or loss of the lure.

Comparison of the stiffness of carbon and titanium: Carbon features an approximately 3-fold stiffness compared to titanium and therefore is the ideal material for guide construction – the carbon frames of the AGS guide support the sensitivity of the blank like no other material.

HVF® CARBON FIBER | Blank Material

This premium high module "High Volume Fiber" material has been developed by DAIWA and is exclusively processed in our own rod factories. The very slim carbon fibers allow the manufacturing of extra-compact blanks with low resin content. The resulting rods are extremely lightweight, feature a fast action and are better balanced than rods of conventional carbon fiber blanks.

X45X® FULL SHIELD CARBON FIBER | Blank Wrapping

Mit der X45X Full Shield Technologie ist es den DAIWA Ingenieuren gelungen, die bewährte X45 Kohlefaserkonstruktion auf der kompletten Oberfläche des Blanks zu positionieren. Durch diese besondere Positionierung der BIAS-Kohlefaser wird die Verwindungsfestigkeit um weitere 25% erhöht und Sie bekommen die, während dem Wurf erzeugte Energie noch besser auf den Köder übertagen. Die Wurfdistanz, Präzision des Wurfs sowie Power und Kontrolle im Drill werden deutlich verbessert!

Das X45X Full Shield Material ist zudem auf einem klar lackierten Blank gut sichtbar und erzeugt eine umwerfende Kohlefaseroptik.

V-JOINT® α | Spigot Joint

For the V-Joint Alpha spigot joint, exclusive DAIWA BIAS carbon fiber material is combined with the Nanoplus technology. The carbon fiber nano particles within the material increase its stability and reduce its weight. The spigot joint thus can be dimensioned even slimmer.