Well, I'm going to wade in here and say that I disagree!
In my view, the intermediate wraps were not designed to
stiffen the rod in the absence of heat treating.
I believe that the reason for the intermediate wraps
was twofold:-
1) The glues used were likely animal based and not as good
as post war or today's modern two-part glues. The intermediate
wraps contributed to keeping the six strips together.
2) Aesthetic reasons. With the improvement of glues, the
intermediate wraps were no longer required, but continued
for several years for aesthetic reasons, as they were expected.
I further believe that some form of heat treating has been going
on for a long time, and is not recent. The application of heat
is used to straighten the strips.
My 2 cent's worth.............
Neville Gosling, Greater Vancouver,B.C. Canada.
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
