The making of good quality fishing rods from bamboos is a skilled craft. It involves; splitting culms into strips, planing them, gluing the strips back together to make blanks, wrapping the guides, varnishing, and making the cork grip and seat for the reel.
To start out on your bamboo fly rod building project it is a good idea to get the best advice out of the published works of masters of the craft. After all, you want to end up with well crafted rods that are going to do an excellent job of catching fish!
I have another page dedicated to book reviews for you to visit when you have finished on this page. Bamboo Rod Building Books
The world's largest rod building event, the International Custom Rod Building Exposition offers items of interest for all custom rod builders working at any level in the custom rod building craft.
40,000 square feet of rod building supply manufacturer and dealer exhibits, 70 booths and over 2000 custom rod builders! There is simply nothing else like this for custom rod builders anywhere else in the world. This is truly the BIG one!
Showplace Center - High Point, NC
A range of resources for making and repairing rods are available on eBay. I have provided the following two boxes as an example. You can click on any of the items to view the full description and browse all the other related products on offer. Or... type your specific keyword in the box to do a search. Underneath these I have also linked to two geographically targeted resources that you can search or register for products in your own country (a lot of sellers will deliver internationally too).
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Out of around 1,000 species and 91 genera, Arundinaria amabilis or Pseudosasa amabilis - Tonkin Cane, is the prized species most often used for bamboo fly rod building but Calcutta Cane was also used in this craft. Tonkin Cane, recommended to be one of the strongest species of the bamboos due to its high density of fibers, is popular with bamboo rod makers because of its straightness, well spaced nodes, flexibility and strength.
Pseudosasa amabilis
Common name: Tonkin bamboo
Family: Gramineae
Synonyms: Arundinaria amabilis
Range: E. Asia - S. China
Habitat: Forests; Forest Margins; Damp Grasslands; Woodland Garden; Sunny Edge; Dappled Shade; Shady Edge; Deep Shade;
If you are keen to make your own fishing rods but do not want to build the blank, buying a blank to start you off with crafting your own is just the thing. You can buy blanks and hardware separately and outfit the rods yourself. See my page on bamboo fly rod blanks...
This link will take you to a page that provides access to recommended rod makers, suppliers, and listings of rods for sale.
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