Creating the Garrison Fly Rod

is to cut my own shafts and my golf clubs using good Hickory but and I tried bamboo as a material my friend of mine suggested right promptly that I would get in touch with dr. Holden because he made flyer us and has written a book about it and he gave me the idle dues but bamboo and he gave me quite a lot of pointers about making bamboo rods and held much pleasure to us he also showed me what real Duncan King looked like and then I was interested to get started making a fly rod well our problem is to make seven-foot rods and at random you pick this stock here which looks to be adequate fibers for seven-foot rod you have here a piece of bamboo which had been in storage in the attics and before World War 2 and thoroughly seasoned and time by putting it in storage we started a split and carried that split above the first node or almost to the second pillar now the shrinkage when seasoning is very apt to pull that apart and with a good start it might go straight up the stock now we are going to split this bamboo at a point where we will have two equal halves we have to mark it so that we will get a split perpendicular to the fibers we have now rotated our bamboo so if the check split is down on the mark at the midpoint is up we face our cleaver in the split first and on the mark then we tap this quite lightly and we start see that's what starting going up about to it so that indicates that we have solid fiber in this lower piece already know from the giant beam now we have completed the for completing the second split in this by the fusing and cam action of two - Twitter's a very effective have we gone that split the full length of the stock and probably have the same amount of fiber on both sides in his place you got this stock let him pick you guys you gotta knock these diagrams out and essential them come out on the side first then clear up the middle if you try to take it all out in the middle get powder split your pan bow the middle no splitting one half I was talking to three people about useful which I have right through the only difference rod to rot if you make them accurately is the temper of the bamboo fibers that are in the stock from which survived is me therefore if you want to rods absolutely match it would be very advisable to make something the same stock of that boat just cutting and putting it into pieces useful for patients for one rod [Applause] we have split one half of our stock into six pieces nearly equal width so we mark off for our tips they've got piece number one number five three six two and four we have however some obvious decay on the very surface we're going to do a little failing on this spot this looks like the Katie Rd that goes into Flambeau well there should be four things are out okay guys right across the whole ya know this bottom half edition of her one piece we cannot use and we're going to mark the nodes in red and we have mark these pieces for their position of rotation and finished joint nodes are very hard but below the nodes where the old fibers are thinning out and above where the new fibers are taking hold you have weak spots in the cane as a whole and you want to get those separated this is a cut-off marker number one piece but materialize their tip material a bullet we have here one of the bus trips or step four but we've got time to fix clean the some of the fifth off the inside and prepare it or something it accurate now we're trying to get from this piece that from which a plane the piste to pieces we now start to take the lip off of the exterior side of all these strips I don't know exactly what to say to the beginner who wants an exact description of what a good piece of cane is but I'd simply say that if it is green and soft and he can bend piece of it and it stays bad I don't think I'd want to make her out of it I've been admiring your rod so much I missed a trouble over there he came up and rolled at it I was concentrating on watching that beautiful action well that is gettin up lying out on this yeah we have to watch that back guess I felt a little piece of Russian back to me that is the like the whole get the cast okay we're taking a remaining bend out of this piece up here you got a little kick in there a double kick which goes this way that's gonna be narced again there's old bill says you'll heat it over an alcohol flame until you can feel with your fingers that bamboo is soft enough to be displaced and the bend comes out it always comes back in hot we now flatten out the surface kept those nodes and get them smooth so that they coincide with the outside of bamboo now having these baton doubt watch the reflection of light on that you don't want to file it any further than even necessary now that is the last operation we do before beginning our bevel cutting we bevel cut these six strips into equilateral triangles and assemble them with the densest fibers on the outside and when glued these pieces will form a true hexagon which is the shape of the rod or its entire length we're cutting now on the wooden formed one side of the strip's only will be cut then we will cut them on the short steel forms both sides will be cut until you have a triangle section flush with the top of the steel floor we switch to a heavier plane well one pass of a file we are taking off the sharp edges on the very exterior side of the strips the reason for that is that the sharp edge and being collected and the binder will not touch your binding cord because we later find these together with the other five pieces in preparation for heat treating and in starting that the rod rotates putting a the tension on the car that's binding it together this mind there's something I developed quite a few years back it works fairly well Gary you're winding right down to the end at which point card little let God order coordinate work cut it or half hitches around me I'm in the direction of rewind you now we must reverse the direction of the feed so as they get across winding on this and overcome any twist in the rock which the first winding put in again we put C bindings ready in under the entering car does he felt like both these tips and the but they're ready for heat treating the heat treating drives off surplus moisture and also evaporates some of the lighter oils but you have a tendency to keep your fibers soft so that you've got a greater Dempsey of fiber in the finish drug than you started with hot and cold to exact mm-hmm she dropped in temperature brother put me one minute 45 seconds we roll side to side three minutes 30 seconds at 350 we are turn these in for him 5 minutes 30 seconds tips out 7 minutes but out that's the work all flame is gone he's a cleaning formed with cetera specific rod very nice but just happened some hired help one time couldn't find a crowbar on the property use it for such so I have to just lay a little wedge under that end to keep it from moving now these screws differential screw and such that one complete Turner that's true will open or close their screw eight thousandths of an inch beginning our final cutting with the first pass on this one strip of bamboo real plain it in a manner to force the rind of this against the thorn I'm gonna gradually work into the taper that we want to obtain in the final stages now they change airplanes continue cleaning until no longer pick up any material now we've got this tip laying down as far as we can get it in the preliminary side of the forms and their cutting is fairly clean we've turned the farms over to the finished side where the grew is much smaller you'll have to change our plane and take a final finer cut on this show this cutting has got to be very careful nobody removes from this one strip the outside enamel the purpose of that is to see the fibers as they are and detect any further injury or imperfection well that blade vibrating is a little bit coming down all of them lengths I didn't detect it until it shut down the end they have a little chips in there big deep we got to get him out and bail ready to make the last pass at planing to the fish size we've gotta take a very fine cut second shot now that we have this just cut down to the steel our beveling of acceptance is finished I think of a lecture that was given by professor s T at the Union College in the fall of 1913 the demonstrated wave linear action and he had a horsewhip letter rather carriage with which he vibrated and you could see the same width of amplitude all the way down to the end and that meant that he had to maintain a higher stress at the point by reducing the diameter is wet all not Howie it easy it is to not fly off a horse at air at least we kid did when we were youngsters we have these pieces assembled and rotation there and we have taped them together at various points to hold them in its relative position and you're all tape the tape has been swept and they're lying flat and ready to be glued so we'll prepare our Lube right now that's the resource Munroe there's a dark wine colored liquid and you buy it off the counter in the hardware store as Elmer's waterproof glue but in making a bonding material for the steps of a fly rod I suggest that instead of using one part by weight one part of powder to four parts of plastic glue and mixing it I would suggest that you mix it one fifth of powder and 15 percent of your weight of your plastic in alcohol the purpose of the alcohol is to send the glue down and make it more pliable and at the same time act as a penetrating agent to carry that glue into the fibers of the bamboo after your glue has set for 24 hours you remove the binding card with the aid of this fast pipe you know and I remove the excess excess glue from the spaces of the rods and you must be careful not to cut your corners comes off very easily using a a well-worn 10-inch mill bastard pile the same thing with the tip whoo this is the point where your headaches and your and your patience is tried to the limit we've got allocate twists in this broad blue ink if any occur now what I failed to mention before was that on the hand rest of my rods there is no taper the actions of taper taper ends there and there is a swell from about this point to the end of the hand right it's a peculiar thing but that usually produces a twister neuron now we see if we have it we saw that move and the twisters in the rod so we'll mark it to get it out the length of it is from there where it starts to there where it stops we check some twists in this rod downstairs to bring it up here and walk it over this alcohol flames see if we can work them out it's time hello girl that time I shall have a bend in my butt that twist is correct cutter rod joint off two links in the back end we've got them out a block on here for the buck cap and when we faced the back end of that off now we're gonna trim this down so it'll take this prepared block which will hold a but Kapler out [Applause] all right we put this lock on the ticket but Kat will now cut cork with holes 250 rod we're working on [Applause] I will slide these cork down on the rod leaving a space to get behind them and force them on home we're now preparing our clue for pasting on the court and we use the same mixture for attaching the ferals and there are two different Apaches and the reason that I have found that these two epoxies set up with a slight expansion we put a little of this mixture on each court and we force it home this procedure gives you a solid hand grasp and real seat and get perfect control of your art well Gary I think I've pounded that trout down one thing when we were down in the shop working something I've been meaning to ask you is the balance of a rod in the line that one balance is so beautifully anywhere in about here it makes for such ease of casting that because you're twisting your hands of Drive the bending in the rod right at that point the property design pearl will take the bending power flour delivered from the butt section to the tip these furrows of mr. firearms are made of nickel silver hard on nickel silver to be there is no step down of diameter inside of the ferrule we must fit this part of the rod to fit the inside of our ferrule first of all we'll take a depth gauge and measure how far that Farrell must enter and Mark this rod with pencil and that is where the serrations must come to when we seat to Pharaoh now and we take the end of the serrations then put another mark from here to here we turn it to fit the inside of the Pharaoh and then we feather these corners on the hex so the transition from my hexes around meets that point I will take down the marks on that where the ferrule is a bearing too hard with a very fine sandpaper we'll put the barrel on there and see how she bares it's tight she goes all the way home now then we got to get that off of there yeah a pair of blocks take a hold of it pull it back but she'll go home huh that's a fit that is a six now ready to put the ferrule on the rod except we've got to get the binding solution down in the ferrule itself fits the serrations the cut for the serration rather will be in the center of the flat so get him there binding them and down they will fall right over and stay put okay now it binds it got this nylon cord under tension and re wrapping it the second time around these serrations we got a get-well up an entire fast Oh got too much there I've noticed you make your handles your grips all just about parallel what is the taper off well it was a very slight taper about a sixteenth to its 32nd to a sixteenth of an inch [Applause] using a very coarse bastard plough roof turn this and get the pork down more or less of meat inside still very rough turning we're doing now a rail seat has to compel in a little a very slight slope than this high drive between the back end and the front end I tried to make the grip 132nd event greater diameter that's the top end then at the bottom you just take your hand and close it ever played baseball if you looked at our table we close that way they're gonna sight through these furrows and see how the alignment of the rod is through the ferrule and then select in so doing we will select the side that the guides go on little kick there you want to distribute your load when the line is in tension that a great many points on your rod they approach what you might call uniform loading now you don't have them you can't have too many guys you can take load it down but the weight of these guys do add a little weight to the rod but they must be how the caliber that the torsion in the top of that guide in no way affects the bending quality off all right now we're starting a winding path of Harrow and use so color of your own selection I choose a light brown this wind it up to the throw but not over those arrows because at that point we sharp the second winding which covers a serration from her land should be winding break mmm which is very unlikely with this type of winding action of the rod is not effective you put the loop in there to pull them in true when you cut yourself off there's a very trivial operation but quite frequently these guys have a little bird on the end of the feet makes quick work of your winding silk don't see how should go off 1 1 foot of your guide really tight and full of winding thread to last 8 turns of the winding go on down for the next guy be complete putting your guides on then you come back up the road almost guided to this last guide here then you look through your guides and see where they are relative to that top guide you may have a twist here and there the guide liens are off one side that's due to in accuracy of the surfaces of the rod the spiral of this winding is in the opposite direction from the spiral foot on that first one winding will neutralize the effect of putting a twist in the rod we will use an alcohol frame to singe these shelf windings and it was also said there is the ends of the fibers to stick out and when you put your varnish over the windings it will be clear and flat otherwise you'd have a rough surface on that one these varnishing tanks are enclosed within this covering and bottom we have electric light both for heating if it is cold it necessary and extend up through the ceiling where we have drilled holes in the floor or up them through second that cook so we can see more and they're coming out put the button well I prefer the dip varnishing because of one solid reason and that is that you have an equal surface tension on all six sides of the rod the speed of withdrawal must be governed by the balance between this surface tension and the adhering qualities of the varnish now what we have to do before we start that up again is to blow the diaphragm of varnished out of those guys well so would later roll down and give us a tear and that's something we we to avoid the bugs come out first you remove that from the tank not too bad I put four coats on irad with a varnish you'll take 24 hours before you butcher next color and with a polyurethane you've got to get your next coat on in less than 12 hours now with a butt cap in place and drilled for this pin we drive the pin through well and make their odd more attractive them look better we will just simply take very fine pumice in a while and break the gloss of the finish on the rod and I will take what varnish is adhered to the guide and cut it off with this so that the guide will be clean and will not the varnish will not cut the line this is the very last thing we do to arrive before we take it out and put it to work boy this is beautiful [Music] Oh [Music] went over the rock that joined the club Jerry I'm with you [Music] this makes me want my youth back again we could be young men with all Trump to battle it would be happy [Music] you

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Length: 39min 27sec (2367 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 24 2020