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Making bamboo fly rods.
Making bamboo fly rods requires using cane of better than average quality and most bamboo fly rod makers use tonkin cane that is specially imported for that purpose.
A bamboo fly rod is made of six strips of bamboo glued together to form hexagon photo below.
Arrive with enthusiasm leave with your own hand crafted split bamboo rod.
I think that everyone would agree that we owe a debt to jerry foster who created the rodmakers site.
This is a step by step look at the process of making a split bamboo fly rod.
All classes are tailored to each individual and include instruction tools and materials.
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.
Although each step is described a number of details are not fully covered.