A few years ago Pete Taran posted about a class he took to build a bamboo fly rod. Being one to enjoy fly fishing myself, it was just too hard to keep from signing up for the class which took place last month. As Pete indicates in his post, it’s an amazing process to go from a large culm of bamboo to a glued up tapered fishing rod.
You leave the class with a tapered blank fitted with the ferrules. The remaining work is to varnish the blank, wrap the guides and ferrules with silk thread and varnish that, epoxy on the grip and the reel seat spacer and hardware.
Hard to take a photo, but this is ready to fish.
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Here’s Pete’s post for anyone interested...(thanks again Pete for the encouragement to attend!)
https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread....ghlight=Bamboo