Things of the Past: The Parabolic Fly Rod
Here is the story of parabolic rods, something that made a buzz during the 1930s. It was the era of cane rods, silk lines and gut leaders. Some smart rod makers had already understood the hidden se-crets and underlying mechanisms ruling the behavior of fly rods. They did this without any compu-ting facilities, trial and error was the only method to reach their goal, the very best fly rod....
Superboo XV
The community dinner is a staple of Maine culture, in a state where coming together is a way of life. Maine is also the historic home of some of the legends of split bamboo rodmaking: H.L. Leonard, F.E.Thomas, and Eustis Edwards, to name just a few. So when someone from Maine posts on the Internet, I’ve cast a bamboo rod,” and our ears hear “I’ve eaten a food,” it’s time to combine the two. The community gathering and the bamboo fly rod first met fifteen years ago...
Making a Poplar Bark Grip
In rodmaking, unless you design your own tapers, there are few opportunities to individualize your rod apart from thread color or reel seat wood choices. The grip has been made of cork for generations and purists would argue that this should not be changed. While making a set of rods for my daughter and myself, it occurred to me that I wanted these to be a matched set and to be visually different from others rods I had made. While staying in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina...
