A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod Tapa dura - 1985

Piscataway, NJ: Winchester Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly toned and soiled. 1985. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0832904163 . xx, 296pp. Acknowledgements, forewords, black and white illustrations and photographs, graphs, tables, and index. "A book of inestimable value to the amateur rod-builder and the best assurance yet that rod-building - far from being a lost art - will grow and prosper in the future", from the rear jacket panel. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Winchester Press, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x1. Some edgewear to dustjacket. Fly fishing has a long and storied history. While many flyfishermen will find and purchase their favorite fly rod, there are those who desire to go a step further. For those discerning flyfishermen and women, simply buying a rod is not enough—they must build one. And just as fly fishing is an art, so is the creation of the bamboo fly rod.Many people believe that the best-feeling rods, particularly for trout fishing, are made from bamboo, and today’s bamboo rod-making tradition is particularly indebted to one man: Everett E. Garrison. Using principles he learned as an engineering student, Garrison created an exacting method of building rod—a method that for decades was a well-kept secret. These techniques are presented to the reader in A Master’s Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod Completely illustrated with black-and-white drawings and… Leer más

Winchester Press. A 1985 first printing with number 1 in copyright line. Fine condition with no wear or markings in a good used jacket. Laid-in is a 6-page "Fly Rods from Split Bamboo with a hand plane and lots of gadgets" stapled article taken from some resource. Also a two-page form letter advertising Tonkin Cane prices and availability with embargo from China. Also an old folded Utah Fishing small newspaper. Also a Nickel silver ferrules advertisement letter of two pages. Also a letter signed in ink from Hoagy B. Carmichael about Carson tools regard making rods . etc. And several other letters of interest to making these rods .etc. A neat little collection with one of the letters being singed by the co-author of the book. . Fine. Hardcover. 1985.