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The beginnings of a bamboo fly rod
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<blockquote data-quote="woodyard" data-source="post: 5047885" data-attributes="member: 2777"><p>[ATTACH]68199[/ATTACH][ATTACH]68200[/ATTACH]</p><p>This a picture of the tip sections still bound after heat treating and the butt strips with the lowest one nearly at dimensions after planing in the metal form. Pencil for size comparison. The planing form is set to produce an equilateral triangle of bamboo tapered from .140 inch to .104inch. A slow tedious process. The biggest problem with all of this is the internodes which are a royal pain to work with trying to plane and smooth. They are obstinate little devils and that is being nice.So after it all works , you get the six strips planed to size and then ready to glue and bind then I will heat set the epoxy in the oven. If it doesn't go well you have to make some more strips or maybe this one will be for ruger instead of my grand daughter. Lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodyard, post: 5047885, member: 2777"] [ATTACH]68199[/ATTACH][ATTACH]68200[/ATTACH] This a picture of the tip sections still bound after heat treating and the butt strips with the lowest one nearly at dimensions after planing in the metal form. Pencil for size comparison. The planing form is set to produce an equilateral triangle of bamboo tapered from .140 inch to .104inch. A slow tedious process. The biggest problem with all of this is the internodes which are a royal pain to work with trying to plane and smooth. They are obstinate little devils and that is being nice.So after it all works , you get the six strips planed to size and then ready to glue and bind then I will heat set the epoxy in the oven. If it doesn’t go well you have to make some more strips or maybe this one will be for ruger instead of my grand daughter. Lol [/QUOTE]
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