Tonkin Bamboo For Rod Building

Used for over 100 years in the custom building of handmade split flyrods.

Tonkin bamboo for rod building.

The two piece rod comes with an aluminum tube and a rod sock with an agate stripping guide. These culms have been specially selected for rod making and packed in china by andy royer. The heart of our business since 1996 has been tonkin cane poles for building bamboo fly rods. A bamboo fly rod or a split cane rod is a fly fishing rod that is made from bamboo the british generally use the term split cane in the u s most use the term bamboo the heyday of bamboo fly rod production and use was an approximately 75 year period from the 1870s to the 1950s when fiberglass became the predominant material for fly rods.

Wt025 20 14 tonkin culms. Making bamboo fly rods requires using cane of better than average quality and most bamboo fly rod makers use tonkin cane that is specially imported for. Bamboo broker tonkin culms. With a minimum of natural marks.

You ll throw a nice loop and enjoy wet flies with headwaters well designed rod. Genuine tonkin cane bamboo fly rod blank limited availability available for back order new stock arriving in 8 days a smooth casting beautifully finished genuine hexagonal tonkin bamboo fly rod blank featuring genuine nickel silver ferrules fitted and ready to wrap. Pseudosasa amabilis tonkin cane or tea stick bamboo is native to china. Recommended bamboo species.

Two tip sections help relieve some of the pressure of the natural weight of the rod for longer fishing trips. This is arundinaria amabilis aka. This is the famous flyrod bamboo or fishing poll bamboo. Guaranteed no burn or farmers marks.

Out of around 1 000 species and 91 genera arundinaria amabilis or pseudosasa amabilis tonkin cane is the prized species most often used for bamboo fly rod blanks and building rods but calcutta cane was also used in this craft. This fly rod uses hand planed quality tonkin bamboo. The freestone is a medium action taper for bamboo line. The bust is a plaster cast of a marble head excavated from the temple of jupiter and it the century old cast was used by a philadelphia area art college until they stopped teaching traditional bargue esque sight size drawing courses.

Non stretch binding thread for the bamboo rodmaker 2500m spool size 025. Many rod makers have no chance knowhow to selection of best tonkin bamboo and waste many bamboo wall when spilitting them we do it for you. The protruding rings that occur on bamboo are called nodes and require quite a bit of work to flatten out before the bamboo can be used to make a fly rod this image courtesy of andy royer. Tonkin cane recommended to be one of the strongest species of the bamboos due to its high density of fibers is popular with makers.

Classic freestone taper based on the famous taper by jim payne. For flyrod construction the bamboo is split into small tapering linear triangles.