[Bill McIntyre]

The tip with the Spectra was made by Masahiro Mori (morifish@aol.com).

There is a slot cut in the side of the tip and a little pin going across the slot. The Spectra loops around the pin and then in threaded back into itself just like with hollow polypropylene ski rope. The details are rather difficult to explain, but Mori could tell you how to do it.

I'd like to put Spectra on my Alexander and Aimrite tips, but I don't know of a good way to do it. BTW, that other tip I showed was an Aimrite, which is just a slimmer copy of an Alexander and more suitable for 5/16" and 9/32" shafts.

Here are photos of a Kitto tip rigged with Spectra. When I bought it, he was using cable. But later when he started using Spectra, he put directions for rigging on his web site and I managed to do it myself with Spectra I bought from him. But now you can order the tips rigged with Spectra by him.

You can see that it has a replaceable screw-on point. The Spectra is doubled my threading it back into its own hollow core with a very small loop in the front end. You can see how much of it was doubled by noting that small tuft of Spectra sticking out of the side. You use a fine wire through the loop to pull the Spectra up through the hole in the center of the tip, then put a short piece of heavy mono through the loop and pull it down tight against the body of the tip. When you screw the point back on, it captures that piece of mono so that it won't slip out.