"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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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)


I believe Black was talking about a particular builder who spent many hours
milling the tapers according to mathematical formulas. I don't see what was
misinformed about this, then again I'm not a builder, but perhaps you could
educated me? When I picked up my custom bamboo rod from RK Bolt, he gave me
a run down on his shop. Robert also mills his selections to tight
tolerances and has mathematical records of the behavior of the rod just as
Gary Howells did before Bolt took it over. The many sections part I took as
piecing together to get the great long lengths. I think you also have to
read the section leading up to the part that was quoted in the CSMonitor to
get the overall picture.

By any chance are you Don Phillipson of the famous Phillipson Bamboo rods?
fwiw,
-tom