This should give some idea of the process each rod goes through before a finished product emerges. Click on any of the images below to view the enlarged versions.



Each one of our bamboo flyrods at one time was a peice of cane like these in my personal reserve. These choice stalks were exported from Tonkin China before the embargo and are hand picked for the specific purpose of making them into beautiful cane rods.


Since my rods are all nodeless, I separate each section of the bamboo, and cut out the node (the joint or segment separating each straight of the bamboo fibers) leaving only fibers, eliminating many, if not all, weak points in the piece.


From here, I split each section into pieces roughly between .3 and .5 inches before I start the splicing process. I then take each piece and cut each side to corresponding angles using a disc sander. Each piece is then fit and glued together in sequence to make many longer strips to later be fit together.


After these strips have dried, they are then run many times through a bevling machine to shape them from squares to triangles with the enamle and power fibers facing out. After these are all perfectly triangular, they can all be plained into its final taper. When this is finished, these strips are glued and bound together into the final "hex-rod" shape.


The final product is completed when all of the finishing components have been added to the blank and the rod has been dipped in varnish and polished. Visit the rods page to learn more about the quality components that go into each of my rods. More details on this page coming soon...