On Oct 3, 3:56 pm, "Tom Nakashima" wrote:

By any chance are you Don Phillipson of the famous Phillipson Bamboo rods?

No such luck: I would trade in at least two of my three cane
rods for a good Phillipson . . .

My point is that 99 per cent of all split-cane rods made over the last
150 years have six splines. The review's "generally four or five,
sometimes even six sections" suggests that 4 or 5 splines are
common, which is untrue, and that 6 is rare or exceptional --
which condemns either reviewer or author as ignorant about rods.

Don P