Read "MY FLY ROD" and you will be able to build yourself your very own split bamboo fly rod.
Inside this downloadable book, you will find and learn :
- Flaming, split, strip split and stagger the strips
- Build your final planing forms, adjust them to fit the chosen taper, lighten (alveolate) before gluing
- Give the strips a triangular section
- Construct an oven and temper the strips inside
- Build your binding machine and cement your strips
- 117 photographs, 32 technical sketches and drawings in 12 chapters describing precisely how to :
- Mount your guides and make your bindings
- Varnish your rod
- 125 pages of step-by-step explanations on how to build your rod,
- Make your hand grasp, your reel seats, caps and rings
- Understand the rod working and compute your tapers
- Link the pieces with a splice, a spigot or a ferrule
