On Aug 26, 6:11*pm, "Wolfgang" wrote:

Wolfgang
who, if he had only known at the time what a horror his childhood was, would
have skipped it altogether.

Indeed, probably comes from showing one too many your "peenie".

As for genius, regardless of how or why it may occur, it is most
unlikely that you will find it among this particular motley crew of
socially dysfunctional misfits.

Never mind, at least I don´t think your name is funny. Just imagine
the problems you might have had if you had been called Ibrahim, or
Hussein, or Ali.

On the other hand, you might then have been nominated for president of
something or other. Wouldn´t stop the infidel dogs howling
incoherently at you, but you could at least laugh at them with some
conviction?

Tending to the theory that a certain facility with a language, either
your own or someone else´s, indicates at least a modicum of
intelligence, one is then bound to wonder why somebody who obviously
possesses such would bother even attempting to communicate in any
meaningful way with those who obviously do not.

With regard to the original question about bamboo rods. You might be
lucky and find a rod in a second hand shop rod which will be OK to
fish with, and you might even be incredibly lucky and find a very good
one, but this is most unlikely.

You can buy pretty good bamboo fishing rods and blanks for not too
much money;

http://www.norman-agutters.com/blanks.htm

this is an English supplier, but there are doubtless similar suppliers
in the USA. Custom built hand made blanks from well known makers will
be a lot more expensive usually. Although only real classics of
certain types and from certain makers are worth a lot of money to
various people.

Buying practically anything you don´t know much about form a second
hand store or similar, is always a game of chance. You might be lucky,
you might not.

If you want a good reliable fishing rod, then it is probably best to
avoid such. If you just want to play around with a bamboo rod, and it
doesn´t cost much, then it might be worth your while. Unfortunately,
you are the only one who can determine that. It is as well to remember
that even if you get the rod, you still have to find line to use on
it, and you have no idea how it will behave when fishing.

Some bamboo rods will be brittle with age or due to incorrect storage,
the strips may be separating, some sections may be bent or otherwise
damaged. All problems which are not easy to fix, and almost certainly
not worth the bother in the first place on cheap rods.

As others have pointed out, if you like it, and it looks alright, then
your only real option apart form just forgetting it, is to buy it and
fish it, all you have to lose is the cost of the rod.