Rod #431605 Progress and some Cape Cod Striper Fishing
Took a couple weeks off to spend time with the family up at Cape Cod. This is a trip we have been going on for 15 years now. The weather was great and the fishing was pretty good too. I did fish a graphite 9 weight when I was up there. Hope I don't get kicked out of the bamboo rod makers club for this.
I am going to finally put in the time to make a 9 weight light enough and strong enough to cast an intermediate line over and over for hours while fishing the beaches of the Cape. This has been a goal of mine for a while now. Just never got to it.
Anyway here are some of the Striped Bass from the trip. All pictures were taken from screen shots off of My GoPro. There are also some videos of the trip on My Instagram page. There is a link on the blog for it.
Rod #431605
Here is the progress for this rod. It will be a 2/1 Seven Footer for a #4 Line. I got a little behind while away. This is a flamed no nodes rod. I chose to flame it because I wanted to do a darker rod and I like the fact that you can see the splices.
Here are the spliced chopsticks clamped together and drying.
The sticks after they were cleaned up and the enamel was scraped.
Here the strips are planed to Thirty Thousandths over the final taper.
The strips in this photo are planed to final taper and prepped for gluing.
Ready for gluing this morning.
Glued up strips that are powdered so that the string comes off the blank easily.
I will post more steps in this build as it progresses.
Thanks for looking.
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