RE: Bamboo Rods
2010/12/09 19:29:34
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Indy, I am curious if when you talk of building a rod. Do you split your own culms of bamboo and then make the rod from those culms or are you salvaging old rods and restoring them? The reason I ask is a good friend of mine buys his culms, splits,dries, mills the tapers and does all the steps necessary to build a rod. I know that on some of his rods he has over 100 hrs of labor in them. That is not counting the time for drying, glueing impregnateing and so on. If you are making your rods from "scratch" I tip my hat to you.
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