Ferrule Serration Jig
I bought my 7 x 12 mini-lathe when I first started gathering the tools I wanted to use to make bamboo rods. It’s been a very handy machine to have around, for forming cork grips, making the brass base for my depth gauge, and a bunch of other little tools and jigs that have I’ve used for rod making. A while back, I decided that it was time I learned to make my own ferrules. My goal...
Classic Taper: Heddon Fulsom #1410
A good subtitle for this classic tapers article might be “cheap thrills.” The subject of this article is not a rod of great quality nor was it meant to be one. It is a Heddon product sold under the Folsum Arms label with the model designation #1510. The first two digits stand for the manufacturer, Heddon, and the second two for the Heddon model, #10; the bottom end of the Heddon line. It was probably manufactured in the mid 1930’s because...
Steambox
One of the fun and interesting things about building bamboo rods is the quest for knowledge and the process of winnowing away at the mountain of suggestions on how to best get the job done. In my experience over the last several months I tried many of those suggestions and they just did not seem right for me...
