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Video

Living the Dream

Mar 7. 2010
Samuel Ebersole's entry for the Oregon Fly Fishing Film Festival, 2010. Beautiful and thoughtful - bamboo rodmaking and lots of fishing.
Blog entry

Picky Bastard Cork

Aug 22. 2009
If you thought your rod had good cork, watch Andy Royer pick out the really good stuff
Blog entry

Tupperware-party with fly rods

Apr 28. 2009
We had some fun tonight with a bunch of CTS-rods built by Danish Ussing & Bech
Review

The Graphite Fly Rod

Jun 5. 2008
Now, we all know that winter is the season for building rods.
Article

BaR: Testing

May 14. 2007
Build a Rod, 5 The rod is done and you need to determine what line is best for it. Don't always trust the fine print on the blank, but join Jan-Ole Willers on the water for a test of the newly built rod to find out whether it was worth the effort.
Last installment of our rod building series here
Article

BaR: Coating

May 14. 2007
Build a Rod, 4 We're now at the final stage of our rod buidling process, and ready to coat the wrappings. this requires a clean room and a lot of care. Jan-Ole Willers shows us in great detail how to do the best job and where to do it.
All the advice you will need is found here
Article

BaR: Wrapping

May 14. 2007
Build a Rod, 3 This time we look at guide selection and preparation as well as the critical process of wrapping the guides. Learn some neat tricks from German Jan-Ole Willers in this third part of his extensive rod building series.
A guide to guides is found here
Article

BaR: Handle

May 14. 2007
Build a Rod, 2 The handle is both an important part of any rod and a whole project in itself when building a rod. Jan-Ole Willers helps you choose a shape, select the cork and plan added features such as a fighting butt.
Read the instructions to building a rod handle here
Article

BaR: Parts

May 14. 2007
Build a Rod, 1 The first part of the Global Flyfisher article series on building your own graphite fly rod, which takes you by the hand from the very beginning of the process: identifying and selecting the parts and materials you need.
Jan-Ole Willers helps you take the first steps.
Article

Build a Rod

May 14. 2007
BaR The introduction to the cover-it-all series on building your own grpahite fly rod, which will run through the whole process of building a complete fly rod, covering selection of components, handle, guides, coating and testing.
Start your rod-building career with Jan-Ole Willers here.
Article

Writing on rods

May 12. 2007
Pen and ink One of the hallmarks of rod builder Dave Lewis' work is the handwritten details on each rod. The writing is done by Dave's wife Mary Lu and in this article Dave briefly explains how to obtain the best results when writing on rods.
Learn about tools and materials here.
Review

Trout Grass

Sep 26. 2005
This is a fantastic journey! And in more than one sense.
Blog entry

Reel Seats

Oct 3. 2004
I'm a sucker for a good piece of wood
Article

Bamboo part 7

Aug 23. 2004
The last installment Follow along as Harry Boyd takes us through the process of trimming the bamboo blank to the proper length, preparing and mounting your ferrules, and adjusting the fit of the ferrules. Many thanks to Harry for this well received series of articles.
Click here to read the last chapter.
Blog entry

Rod Builders... Listen Up!

Feb 3. 2004
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