Frankenquad!

Bambooflyguy

Bambooflyguy

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Well.....here’s my first attempt from culm to rod. It’s a two strip PMQ or in my shop....PHQ! PoorHotQuad. After a few awshits, it’s a 5’10” one piece 5wt. I started with a 100+ year old bamboo culm from my grandfather’s tea house, ripped the strips on a vintage bandsaw. Then I scraped the enamel off and rough filed the nodes. Next I squared the strips and scraped the pith. No heat treating.....glued the strips then filed the power fiber side to a rough shape. I straightened the thing over a hot stove element. Then buzzed it down to my specs....wine cork grip, crazy square oak reelseat w/Velcro reel strap. What-do-ya think? I lawn cast it with a 5wt line, not bad 50’-60’......testing it on the water tomorrow. Report to follow.......
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that is really freakin' cool!
 
Thanks....hopefully not a set....but some fighting fish bends! One thing I noticed while flexing it, no bueno side bending, just top and bottom. Not the same rotating flex as fighting a fish with hexagonal. Without heat treating....we’ll see how it looks like at the end of the day! It has a pretty stiff action.
 
Well now you've done it Steve! It's a slippery slope and you're gaining speed. I'm guessing it won't be long before you are heat treating (try it with the Darrel Hayashida propane torch method) and making some maple forms. We should talk sometime about making your own forms (or borrowing the forms I first made for a bit).

Mike
 
Bambooflyguy said:
One thing I noticed while flexing it, no bueno side bending, just top and bottom.
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I wondered about this, hopefully you aren't dealing with the same doggone wind over there that's blowing through the Basin today.
 
Mike Monsos said:
Well now you've done it Steve! It's a slippery slope and you're gaining speed. I'm guessing it won't be long before you are heat treating (try it with the Darrel Hayashida propane torch method) and making some maple forms. We should talk sometime about making your own forms (or borrowing the forms I first made for a bit).

Mike
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Hey Mike,
I‘m starting to slip and slide.....but still hanging on! I read about burning the ”pith” out of the inside.....I just don’t have a torch right now. Thanks for the kind offer......we’ll see, maybe after I retire this June.
 
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