Book Review: Larry Tusoni’s RodDNA Designer
This new software program and book marks another leap forward for anyone who wants to design bamboo fly rods. After Larry Tusoni created RodDNA, we had a series of long talks on what a real rod design program should be. Up to then, everything has been to enable someone to engage in rod tweaking. The conceptual new program would give a rodmaker a total design environment along the lines of Adobe Photoshop where you can build complex items using basic building blocks...
The 18 Strip Rod
All over the world the number of rod makers is growing faster than bamboo in China can grow – which is fantastic! New, skilled artisans join the community in every part of the world each year.
Garrison and Charmichael’s Master´s Guide to Making a Bamboo Fly Rod gained the status of a bible. Not only the new disciples follow Garrison´s dogma religiously. Based on Garrison´s profound knowledge, many rods have seen the light of day once they emerged from handymen´s basements....
Inexpensive Binding
I got this idea to bind without a binder from Ray Gould's book first off, so thank you to Ray. It's an inexpensive method of binding using braided sleeve and a rack made from 2 x 4 scraps. My rack is 2' wide and 6' high with hardwood plates on the top and bottom. You will need four open eye bolts w/lag bolt thread for the bottom and four open eye bolts with S.A.E. thread with nuts and washers for the top. The bottom eyes are turned in permanently. On top you drill four holes lined up with the bottom hooks, you insert the eyes from the bottom...
