Yup, those crafty, crusty old rod makers of yore actually were pretty smart about making rods without all the techno stuff we have available today. Necessity is the mother of invention, and those folks came up with many novel ideas to fix problems at the time.
Mark
At 09:38 AM 10/6/2003, you wrote:
Mark: Thank you for the enlightenment. Fascinating.
Larry J
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/03 06:51AM >>> 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
