Just got the new Abel catalog. On page six there is a six-piece rod
that has elastic(?) running through the blank. Just take it out of the
case, flick it, and line up the sections. Only $575!!! Okay, maybe it's
me. I have five, four- and five-piece, travel rods of various weights,
and it takes me a whole three minutes to remove them from the case and
assemble them. Three minutes each that is.