Of the Manufacture of the Bamboo Rod
Just consider successively the details of manufacture. First there is the cane. It has to be selected, it has to be purchased, it has to be seasoned, and seasoning is an operation which takes very considerable time; and on the question of selection the judgment of a thoroughly experienced workman and judge of this class of timber is required—an experience which can only be got at some cost.
Having selected your cane, and having seasoned it, the pieces fit for making the sections of the rod have to be rent out of it (rent, not sawn). Very many of the cheap and inferior rods sold here are made of sawn sections; and it must be remembered that whereas the whole of the cane can be sawn into the requisite pieces, comparatively only a few sections fit for use can be split out of each cane.
These sections have then to be planed true on two sides to an angle of 60 degrees. Six of these sections have to be accurately fitted and glued together to make each joint. They are then securely bound with string and left until the glue is set absolutely hard, and it takes many months for the glue in the interior of the built sections to set.
Taken from:
Dry-fly Fishing in Theory and Practice
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