A prominent English tackle house catalogs gut, and gives its diameter in thousands of inches, as follows:
Regular (13-14) ; Padron 2nd (14-16) ;
Padron 1st (15-161/2); Marana 2nd (161/2-
171/2);
Marana 1st (18-19).
Buying Hint
If one buys the selected assortments of gut mentioned above he will be more certain of getting good material. Generally, good gut is smooth and perfectly round and strands with flat places should be rejected. By running the gut through the fingers slowly one can usually detect these bad spots or they can be seen by holding the strand so that the light shines along its length.