I was doing a presentation of our new block plane at the Grand River Gathering of Rod-Makers this weekend (Canadian Cane) and I think I've been hornswaggled!
These folks make fly rods out of cane.
In a brief conversation with Ben, I began by saying I would like to add it in to the store as a finished product and as a course. Ben said sure - he always wanted a store with the name "Odds & Sods & Fishing Rods", so we will dub a section. Then I started to find as today's selling progressed (I get contract riders which require pre-constructed soapboxes), I was "buying in". This could not be... not I of unwavering planemaker faith... well ... maybe just a leetle bit...
This is one very very cool form of the craft.
By the end of the day, I ended up swapping a chariot block plane kit (Ben will mark this on the books - mayne I got two rodmaker lessons) for a rod-building lesson with one of the guys.
If Hand Tools is a slippery slope... this rod-making stuff looks like ski wax. Check it out sometime - wery wery dangerous!
Doug
Another funny stat - a Canadian event and I would bet there were ore Americans there than Canadians. This is one deddicated group of people.