Bamboo Rod Building Tips

Per faq s some of the equipment that i use besides my own handcra.

Bamboo rod building tips.

The choice is yours. Here is a taper that was submitted to me by darrol groth for a leonard 48h. Also one of the blanks was nodeless. Here are some of the top benefits of using a bamboo rod.

If you want to build one piece rods 8 or less make a 98 form. 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. The only reason i noticed in the 4 tips was that i was building the same rod 4 times. The first thing you have to decide is the size of your form.

Chattahooche rods taper archive. Bamboo is a natural material. 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. It could be bad cane but the same spot on 4 different blanks.

The glues seem to holding except in certain areas. Frank neunemann taper archive. Measured over varnish tip 3 4 down station. It s up to you.

View full product details. All of the rods were however built from scrap cane. Frank stetzer s hexrod taper archive. Karstetter marty hollow built bamboo rod 8 3 2 2 4 5wt.

A bamboo fly rod is made of six strips of bamboo glued together to form hexagon photo below. The last time i built this taper i had no issues. Subscribe and follow along as we highlight key steps in the bamboo rod building process. 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.

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. 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. George herter book taper archive reed curry. Since bamboo is a natural fiber many anglers describe the feeling of gripping a bamboo fly rod as organic.

We re sure you ll enjoy your stay. I think that everyone would agree that we owe a debt to jerry foster who created the rodmakers site. If you are never going to build anything over 8 make a 50 form.