Mark: Thank you for the enlightenment. Fascinating.
Larry J
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Larry,
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
