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Using the methods originally taught by Daryll Whitehead, then refined through years of custom and light production rodmaking in the Golden Witch rod shop, Russ Gooding and his team will guide you from selecting the raw culm to the finished blank. Broken into discrete steps, making bamboo blanks is a surprisingly straightforward process. This video focuses on blank making, not as a mechanical engineering exercise replete with arcane formulae, but as an accessible craft to which all anglers can aspire. Bamboo is potent, yet sublime. Try it! Featurette: Blueing Ferrules - How To Blue & Clear Coat Nickel Silver Ferrules.
(about 87 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on January 11, 2007 in Sports & Outdoor::Fly Tying & Casting.
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This video is very well produced and covers all the info required to make a blank, showing hand and production options. I think it would be enormously helpful to anyone who was at sea about the rod building process, or had not seen the procedures first hand. I wish it had been available when I started out. Viewers should be aware that while solid methods are shown throughout in several places he takes production shortcuts that most hobby fanatics would not accept. Nodes come to mind as an example. At least one learns that professional results are possible even within those constraints.
This is an excellent video. The production was great and the technique was well described. Before the video I knew nothing about making rod blanks. While my current knowledge on the subject us limited to this video, I feel as though I at least understand the process. It was a fun video to watch. I'm looking forward to watching Russ's other videos.
The information was great - but the DVD skipped a lot - I think you must know that instructional video viewers pause, and replay alot, which may account for this - otherwise ok.
