Tonkin Bamboo For Rod Building

Classic freestone taper based on the famous taper by jim payne.

Tonkin bamboo for rod building.

A bamboo fly rod or a split cane rod is a fly fishing rod that is made from bamboo the british generally use the term split cane in the u s most use the term bamboo the heyday of bamboo fly rod production and use was an approximately 75 year period from the 1870s to the 1950s when fiberglass became the predominant material for fly rods. Recommended bamboo species. This fly rod uses hand planed quality tonkin bamboo. For flyrod construction the bamboo is split into small tapering linear triangles.

Tonkin cane recommended to be one of the strongest species of the bamboos due to its high density of fibers is popular with makers. Non stretch binding thread for the bamboo rodmaker 2500m spool size 025. With a minimum of natural marks. This is the famous flyrod bamboo or fishing poll bamboo.

These culms have been specially selected for rod making and packed in china by andy royer. Pseudosasa amabilis the primary bamboo used by rod making masters around the world since the early 1900ís. Two tip sections help relieve some of the pressure of the natural weight of the rod for longer fishing trips. Wt025 20 14 tonkin culms.

Bamboo broker tonkin culms. Pls choice your need amounts 50pcs of 1 35meter length for making 4sets complete rods. Guaranteed no burn or farmers marks. Many rod makers have no chance knowhow to selection of best tonkin bamboo and waste many bamboo wall when spilitting them we do it for you.

The protruding rings that occur on bamboo are called nodes and require quite a bit of work to flatten out before the bamboo can be used to make a fly rod this image courtesy of andy royer. The bust is a plaster cast of a marble head excavated from the temple of jupiter and it the century old cast was used by a philadelphia area art college until they stopped teaching traditional bargue esque sight size drawing courses. The two piece rod comes with an aluminum tube and a rod sock with an agate stripping guide. My son angus wrapped a used mask from his new day job around our bust of aesculapius a k a asclepius the greek god of the healing arts.

The freestone is a medium action taper for bamboo line. The heart of our business since 1996 has been tonkin cane poles for building bamboo fly rods. Pseudosasa amabilis tonkin cane or tea stick bamboo is native to china. This is arundinaria amabilis aka.

You ll throw a nice loop and enjoy wet flies with headwaters well designed rod. Making bamboo fly rods requires using cane of better than average quality and most bamboo fly rod makers use tonkin cane that is specially imported for.