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.

SUPER SVF® CARBON FIBER | Blank Material

The resin content at this exclusive DAIWA material is reduced to a minimum. The manufacturing and processing of Super SVF requires latest machines and is complex as well as expensive. Therefore this material is only used for some of our top products. Rods made of Super SVF carbon are extremely light weight and fast. The blanks instantly resile to the starting position after the cast and therefore allow extremely accurate and long casts.

NANOPLUS | Technology

At our Nanoplus technology the resin material first is enriched with a nanoalloy compound and then is used for connecting the single carbon fibers, thus enabling the design of very lightweight and robust 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.

3DX® 3D CROSS | Blank Surface

In contrast to conventional carbon fibers, where the fabric structure always is oriented 2-dimensionally, with 3DX 3D-Cross DAIWA has developed a 3-diminsional carbon fiber material.

The interwoven 3DX carbon fibers are integrated into the blank during manufacturing. This "skeleton" enhances the compression, improves the flexural strength and makes the blank faster.

Thanks to the use of 3DX carbon fiber material, the blank compression is considerably improved. The rod features always the same power transmission – regardless the direction of movement. Additionally the rod features obviously reduced torque – more precise casts are the consequence.

The hexagonal pattern is widely distributed in nature and has ever been the basis for substantial technical innovations.

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.