Rodmaker Profile: George Barnes
In April, Willis Reid was among the group gathered for breakfast around George and Jane Barnes’ table. On the table were stacks of golden pancakes made by George from scratch, of course, risen overnight and fresh from the griddle. George and a friend tapped the trees and distilled the maple syrup, too. The cheeses for this year’s Catskill gathering were working away on the counter. George, I believe, can make anything...
A Practical Method for Steaming Nodes
While steaming is a time honored method for softening wood in furniture and boat building, it is seldom used by rod makers. One of the primary reasons for this is that the conventional method of steaming were you put the part in a steam box and heat the whole thing is not really suited to our needs. What is needed is a way to isolate...
Corbett Lake Bamboo Rodmaker’s Gathering
In 1987, two fly fishermen, and coincidentally bamboo rodmakers, independently traveled to Corbett Lake, British Columbia. They probably had heard of the very large Kamloops trout that Peter McVey, owner/innkeeper of Corbett Lake Country Inn had stocked in his lake.
The stars must have been aligned for the bamboo rodmaking community, as that fortuitous meeting of John Bokstrom...
