here’s something really fun .. I’ve been learning to build bamboo fly rods under the guidance of Glenn Brackett,   http://www.sweetgrassrods.com/     I don’t know much about the entire process but I am slowly picking up some of the skills required to make them.  I’ve decided to dedicate a page on this site to this process and I will update that soon.  If you are interested in how to build one I’ll be posting pictures and my limited views of how it is done.  In the meantime, here are a few pictures of the rods I’ve been working on.  At this stage of the process I am unwrapping the string bindings, scraping residual glue and the bamboo enamel of the rod sections .. check back for the updated page and lots more pictures of selecting, splitting, heating, milling and gluing the bamboo.

Check out the ‘learning bamboo’ tab at the top of this page and come along for the initial stages of crafting a bamboo fly rod.

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