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Four stream rods

Oct 31. 2005
Fooling around This is not a review as such, but then again. GFF partner Martin Joergensen got the chance to play with four great and very different rods from ECHO, Harvest, Partridge and Scierra. All are light stream rods, but they still display large differences when fished side by side.
Read about it here
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Bamboo part 7

Aug 23. 2004
The last installment Follow along as Harry Boyd takes us through the process of trimming the bamboo blank to the proper length, preparing and mounting your ferrules, and adjusting the fit of the ferrules. Many thanks to Harry for this well received series of articles.
Click here to read the last chapter.
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Bamboo part 6

Nov 13. 2002
Split cane Now that we have our strips of bamboo tapered into sections for our fly rod, the next step is to glue these strips together into whole rod sections.
Read Part 6 of Harry Boyd's continuing series - Gluing Strips into a Blank.
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Bamboo part 5

Oct 16. 2002
Split Cane Harry Boyd teaches us the tools and techniques required to turn strips of bamboo into tapered sections of a fly rod in Part 5 of his continuing series.
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Bamboo part 4

Oct 15. 2002
Split Cane Split cane: In the fourth installment of Harry Boyd's series on bulding bamboo fly rods, he describes the tools and processes of binding strips together and then heat-treating them in some sort of oven.
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Bamboo part 3

Oct 14. 2002
Split cane This is the third section of Harry Boyd's continuing bamboo rod course. Here we begin to mold the raw bamboo into something that approaches the shape and form of a fly rod, and the real fun begins. Read more in Part 3 - Staggering Nodes and Rough Planing.
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Bamboo part 2

Oct 13. 2002
Split Cane Harry Boyd continues his series on the construction of bamboo fly rods with a look at selecting, preparing, and splitting your culms of tonkin bamboo.
See the article here.
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Bamboo part 1

Oct 12. 2002
Split Cane Harry Boyd tells us "Since Hiram Leonard and the earliest days of fly fishing in our country, the allure of fine spilt bamboo rods has been part of the magic of our sport." Read Harry's introduction to his series of articles on building bamboo fly rods.
More here
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Harry Boyd

Jan 1. 2002
Bamboo GFF's own bamboo rod expert and maker of these beautiful rods. Best known for his extremely popular series on making your own bamboo rods.
Read more about Harry here
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Ib Olsen's cane rods

Feb 15. 1998
Rodmaking How Ib Olsen builds his beautiful rods ...and some elementary notes.