So what’s new with bamboo??

There is someone building scarffed rod parts to make a new style of rods and reusing wine corks to make great handles. You should check out his builds...
 
I added to my Sharpes bamboo collection with a 10' spliced impregnated Scottie. Looks like it was the 66th rod made in February 1964. Not marked for lines but various Sharpes catalogs call it a 6 or 7 weight. 2/1. 7.2 oz. Maroon wraps. Has fighting butt which allows two handed casting and roll casting. Farlows Sharpe 1970 catalog says "The smaller brothers of the world famous Spliced Salmon rods, having the same qualities and advantages. No metal joints to interfere with the rod action. light, powerful, smooth and sweet, adding greatly to the pleasures of fishing."

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Maiden trip for the Payne 102 taper…although I made two tips. One is the original and this one I basically moved the taper down 6 inches but narrowed down at the ferrule. I am really pleased how well it handled a 5wt full sink. An hour and a half of a skunking but the last thirty minutes saved the evening with three feisty rainbows. I’ll try the dry tip tomorrow evening.
 

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Took a casting lesson from Anil out of Puget Sound Fly Shop. I 'd like to improve my reach cast and doublehaul. He cast all ofthe 5wt 406 DT line and some of the backing with the Payne 102 ... into a slight breeze...that dude can sling a line.
 
Mike Monsos said:
So, you "square up your strips prior to using your beveller? I like the clever clamping set up.
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It's not so much about squaring them but more about reducing them to a size that will pass through the beveler.
This morning I stopped using the clever clamp set up and started using a set of shity old forms after I discovered that the distance from the top of the forms down to the adjustment screws between the bars is 1/4" which is a size that will fit through the beveler. So I can just put a strip in between the bars sideways and plane down to 1/4".

Every shop should have a few sets of hand screws. They can do things that other clamps can't.
 
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