07-21-2007, 07:05 PM
[font "Poor Richard"][green][size 3][cool]Many times I have read about Flygoddess's love for her tea stick. Thought that she was a coffee drinker. [
] So here is a bit of triva in case you weren't aware of this info. I wasn't.[
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[/size][/green][/font][font "Poor Richard"][size 3][green]Split-bamboo fly rods have made an impressive comeback in the fly-fishing world in recent years, particularly in Maine, a state with a rich heritage in bamboo-rod making. In the early 20th century, internationally famous rod makers such as Payne, Edwards, Thomas and Leonard had turned the Pine Tree State into the bamboo-rod capital of the world.
Many of these legends from that bygone era owned shops in Bangor, and today their rods made with tea stick bamboo command a dear price. Rods built prior to the early 1930s were not tea stick and are less valuable. The lighter, 61Ú2 - to 71Ú2 -foot Payne models can run $2,000 and more, but longer rods cost much less. They are too heavy to please modern fly-casters, putting them in less demand.
Making bamboo-rod blanks is labor-intensive and requires great skill, explaining the high cost. The artisan must split six strips from a tea stick culm and shave each one down to a tapered, three-sided piece. This is precision work because the six strips must fit perfectly together to form the six-sided blank. The degree of taper dictates the action. etc
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] So here is a bit of triva in case you weren't aware of this info. I wasn't.[] [/size][/green][/font][font "Poor Richard"][size 3][green]Split-bamboo fly rods have made an impressive comeback in the fly-fishing world in recent years, particularly in Maine, a state with a rich heritage in bamboo-rod making. In the early 20th century, internationally famous rod makers such as Payne, Edwards, Thomas and Leonard had turned the Pine Tree State into the bamboo-rod capital of the world.
Many of these legends from that bygone era owned shops in Bangor, and today their rods made with tea stick bamboo command a dear price. Rods built prior to the early 1930s were not tea stick and are less valuable. The lighter, 61Ú2 - to 71Ú2 -foot Payne models can run $2,000 and more, but longer rods cost much less. They are too heavy to please modern fly-casters, putting them in less demand.
Making bamboo-rod blanks is labor-intensive and requires great skill, explaining the high cost. The artisan must split six strips from a tea stick culm and shave each one down to a tapered, three-sided piece. This is precision work because the six strips must fit perfectly together to form the six-sided blank. The degree of taper dictates the action. etc
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