Best guys to ask would be MIB & Kojak.
The spine would be on the wrong side allowing rod to twist like a ******* & probably break before it should have!

Nirai wrote: Best guys to ask would be MIB & Kojak. The spine would be on the wrong side allowing rod to twist like a ******* & probably break before it should have!

Thats a good question for Kojak and Tiny. These days we try as much as possible to design rods with exact wraps as the cloth goes down the mandrel. The reason for this is when you chop a blank up the inside of the spine always relates to the thinnest part of the wall section. In the past you just added more cloth to increase power to a blank but that can cause multiple spines. It is more common now to buy a range of mandrels so you have more taper rates to chose from. We do use variable taper rate mandrels for a lot of rods but we learnt the hard way with our short Fibermax blanks if you dont design the pattern right with these mandrels you create too much wall varaiation as the taper changes.

Spinners might not be 'Swingers' because they believe in the 'Law of Gravity', and the 'KISS' principa l

Try bending over backward to pick something up off the ground it may be able to be done but it will hurt, in effect that is what you would be doing to a spin rod used as an overhead. Like humans each rod will generally have a spin, bend it the wrong way and you are asking for trouble. recommendation get an overhead rod

Q, can i use a spin rod overhead