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Great adventure and pictures, thanks for sharing. Mike

Me too LOL!

Thanks for the details, I really like the old growth color and look myself. I need to find a cottonwood tree with a downed section. When we lived on Ames Lake there was a GIANT cottonwood tree next door. I really hated the seeds it dropped on our cars and left brown stains on the finish. If...

One more question, when you cut the bark piece into 1/2" slabs do you use a table saw? Do you first cut the bark chunk into say 2"x say 5" long boards to have a flat edge to stand the piece on a cut edge for the next cut to the 1/2" thick board to be ready for the 1 1/4" hole saw? I guess I'm...

Those look great! Thanks for the tutorial that answers a lot of questions I had. Mike

WOW!!!!! The whole package looks great! Maybe you could share a quick outline of how you created the grip with the cotton wood bark. I'm starting to see a use for those trees now LOL. Mike

Another great adventure and report Dave! Thanks.

Just point and shoot, it's almost automatic with a parabolic taper. I love them too. Mike

I forgot to mention that Dave had the Wilderness Lite tube inflated for me and insisted that I get on the water and do some fishing while he tried to come up with a solution to the valve in the other Wilderness. I was going to come back if Dave could not fix the valve. But luckily Dave was on...

What a fun way to spend a Friday with a good friend, on a secret pond and some very aggressive cutties after a short hike with a loaned Wilderness Lite float tube from Dave! I landed a dandy on a damsel nymph right off the start, about 13" plus, beautiful fish and very frisky and healthy. I...

Great report and endorsement for the early patterns of wet flies. They really look nice. Mike

The big day was today, removal of the binding string after the glue up. I have to say that Bills rod shafts came out really nice. Very minimum twist or bend in them after the string came off. I’d be proud of that result. Bill has a sanding assignment now before we meet up again but things are...

We are back at the shop again now. After a brief break waiting for a fresh supply of Unibond 800 progress continues. Bill showed up and we opened up the bundles of strips and did a final sweep to insure nothing would interfere with the joints at the apexes. The mixing the Unibond resin 100gr...

Looking forward to it Dave, fun report as usual. Mike

Looks like it was worth the effort in the rain, nice fish! what raft were you floating in? Mike

Well I had high hopes to see Bill's rod bound up and glued in the drying cabinet today. However................... Things didn't work out as expected. Bill arrived and I explained the set up for the glue up today. Bench was cleaned and all the materials needed were ready to go (so I thought)...

Whoo Hooo! Gotta say it again, GREAT DAY!!!!! Mike

Milestone indeed!!!!!!! A big congratulations to Bill for all his work on the raw split strips to the tapered strips now bundled that will create his own hand made bamboo fly rod. Bill has absorbed a lot of information and his skills with the planes and scrapers has really blossomed. Really...

The tip strips come to taper much faster than the base strips, AND they can go south on you just as fast LOL. Luckily things are going well for Bill. We are nearly set with the first of the three strips for the tip section. Like the base section we will have two sets of three strips with...

Now that Bill has the base strips to taper it's time to flip the form over to the small V-Groove for planing the tip strips. If you remember Bill planed the tip strips in the base taper V-Groove earlier to dial in the form. Those tips strips are about two thirds of the way to taper. They will...