"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
...

In all I loved Black's research on the history of the Bamboo rod and how
he
expressed it in his writing without boring you to death.

We read in the CSMonitor review:
"Generally four or five, sometimes even six sections of this particular
species of bamboo are carefully milled over many hours, tapered according to
their particular mathematical formula, splice sectioned, and the line guides
wrapped."

This suggests that either author Black or reviewer
Leigh Montgomery is seriously misinformed.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)