Wayne Knight wrote:
JR wrote:

How much would one weigh? For a DT5, for example?

Exactly what it weighs, I can't tell you. But the one I have held in my
hand was loaded with a 4dt silk line and backing. It did not *feel* any
heavier than a Hardy Perfect.

I emailed Giorgio Dallari this morning asking the weight of the Small
Standard models--described as for 4wt & 5wt lines. He replied an hour
and a half later and said he had just weighed two: the briar wood model
is 118 gr. (4.15 oz) and the amboina wood model 129 gr (4.5 oz). He
says there is some variation, of course, due to the nature of the
materials and the method of manufacture.

You're right: they are not at all unduly heavy.

JR