Bamboo Rod Building Tips

Measured over varnish tip 3 4 down station.

Bamboo rod building tips.

It s up to you. The strips are triangular in cross section and since the rod tapers from handle to tip the triangular strips taper too the triangle is bigger at one end of the strip than the other. The last time i built this taper i had no issues. Here are some of the top benefits of using a bamboo rod.

In action you place the rod to the left i like to start tip of section first so that as the tension builds so does the mass of the rod to counteract twist set the wt on the left hand following friction bar wrap the belt and tie the thread around the section a la garrison and crank the right hand wheel clockwise. Building a rod from a bamboo blank is no different than building one from graphite or fiberglass and requires no special tools or finishing techniques. Fine craftsmanship indeed goes into building a bamboo rod but that doesn t mean they aren t great rods that should be added to your rotation. Bamboo is a natural material.

All of the rods were however built from scrap cane. It could be bad cane but the same spot on 4 different blanks. The first thing you have to decide is the size of your form. A bamboo fly rod is made of six strips of bamboo glued together to form hexagon photo below.

Blanks are available in hexagonal and quadrate geometries in any taper or action that i have or i m always happy to use a taper you provide. I think that everyone would agree that we owe a debt to jerry foster who created the rodmakers site. Also one of the blanks was nodeless. Frank neunemann taper archive.

Here is a taper that was submitted to me by darrol groth for a leonard 48h. The choice is yours. Chattahooche rods taper archive. Woxnan series taper archive.

George herter book taper archive reed curry. Subscribe and follow along as we highlight key steps in the bamboo rod building process. 62 length will allow you to build any two piece rod 10 or less. Frank stetzer s hexrod taper archive.

For sale here is a marty karstetter hollow built bamboo rod 8 3 2 2 for a 4 or 5 weight line with a marked weight of. Karstetter marty hollow built bamboo rod 8 3 2 2 4 5wt. Per faq s some of the equipment that i use besides my own handcra. If you are never going to build anything over 8 make a 50 form.

View full product details. We re sure you ll enjoy your stay. The only reason i noticed in the 4 tips was that i was building the same rod 4 times.