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William Claspy · December 7th, 2005, 07:09 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

On 12/7/05 12:49 PM, in article ,
" wrote:

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:08:46 -0500, William Claspy
wrote:

I love that book. Garrison seems like he was the double-naught of cane rod
building.

He did turn out some pretty decent rods, having taken his, pardon the
Bond pun, "cue" from some of the early masters of the art.

Well for me, the book is a gem for the illustrations, photographs, and
exquisite step-by-step detail of building a bamboo rod. Right on the money,
penny (to extend the pun just a tad more than it should be.) Though perhaps
the pages and pages at the end filled with tables and graphs is a bit more
engineering than truly necessary?

Whenever I think that I could build one myself, I just look through the book
and end up shaking my head at the intricacies involved. As Carmichael says
in the intro, the book is the culmination of 40 years of rod building by
Garrison. Maybe someday I'll do it. When I do :-) I'll have that book on
one end of the bench.

Bill

(but until that day, I'll just keep mooching off W.K. when I get the 'boo
jones. :-)