On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:09:17 -0500, William Claspy
wrote:
On 12/7/05 12:49 PM, in article ,
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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?
For the occasional "hobby" builder, yeah, probably, but for someone who
is really into bamboo rod building, especially at the time of
publication of the book, it was about it as far as published info.
Perhaps it is better that they provided extra info rather than let it go
unpublished and perhaps lost, ala much Payne, esp. Ed, and other
"masters" info. Perhaps not - as always, YMMV.
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.
If you aren't already familiar with it, you might get ahold of "Idyll of
the Split Bamboo Rod" by George Holden. I'm fairly sure there was at
least one reprint, and should be readily available.
TC,
R