Almost, but not exactly. If you happen to see an old bamboo rod that was made before the days of heat treating, they used intermediate wraps to "stiffen" the rod. You would see, about every inch or so the length of the rod, a short, maybe 5 turn wrap. One fella in Australia I know, was restoring one of these old rods, and for grins and giggles, he left the intermediate wraps off. Said the rod cast like a wet noodle. Put the new intermediate wraps on, went back out and cast, and the rod was back to it's old, crisp action. Whether the crispness returned because of an increase in cross section at the point of the wrap, or some other PFM, I'll leave that up to the engineers to discuss... :^}
Mark
At 04:46 PM 10/3/2003, you wrote:
I assume that by intermediate wraps, you mean to place wraps (with no guides) between the guides, so that the line will come in contact more with the wraps, and less with the rod? A curious concept.
Big J
