You ll throw a nice loop and enjoy wet flies with headwaters well designed rod.
Tonkin bamboo for rod building.
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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.
The two piece rod comes with an aluminum tube and a rod sock with an agate stripping guide.
Genuine tonkin cane bamboo fly rod blank limited availability available for back order new stock arriving in 8 days a smooth casting beautifully finished genuine hexagonal tonkin bamboo fly rod blank featuring genuine nickel silver ferrules fitted and ready to wrap.
The heart of our business since 1996 has been tonkin cane poles for building bamboo fly rods.
These culms have been specially selected for rod making and packed in china by andy royer.
Guaranteed no burn or farmers marks.
This is arundinaria amabilis aka.
Two tip sections help relieve some of the pressure of the natural weight of the rod for longer fishing trips.
Used for over 100 years in the custom building of handmade split flyrods.
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Classic freestone taper based on the famous taper by jim payne.
Pseudosasa amabilis tonkin cane or tea stick bamboo is native to china.
Bamboo broker tonkin culms.
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 blanks and building rods but calcutta cane was also used in this craft.
Wt025 20 14 tonkin culms.
Many rod makers have no chance knowhow to selection of best tonkin bamboo and waste many bamboo wall when spilitting them we do it for you.
For flyrod construction the bamboo is split into small tapering linear triangles.
A bamboo fly rod or a split cane rod is a fly fishing rod that is made from bamboo the british generally use the term split cane in the u s most use the term bamboo the heyday of bamboo fly rod production and use was an approximately 75 year period from the 1870s to the 1950s when fiberglass became the predominant material for fly rods.
Non stretch binding thread for the bamboo rodmaker 2500m spool size 025.
Pls choice your need amounts 50pcs of 1 35meter length for making 4sets complete rods.
Recommended bamboo species.
The freestone is a medium action taper for bamboo line.
The protruding rings that occur on bamboo are called nodes and require quite a bit of work to flatten out before the bamboo can be used to make a fly rod this image courtesy of andy royer.
With a minimum of natural marks.
This fly rod uses hand planed quality tonkin bamboo.
