John...and all ........thanks for the nice comments. I'd like to try a few different fly lines to see how they each cast, such as Sylk and Silk versus plastic line. As I said it does cast well with the plastic line ,slowing my stroke down and letting the rod work as it should.

Also ,......being super picky I intend to smooth those wraps out a little more as mentioned before. I would highly recommend using splitcaneblanks , for "builders" looking to build up a cane blank. I spoke with Bob the other day and he is running about 6 months from order to delivery, which is not bad at all. Considering the prices of a good built cane, I dont think you can go wrong using his blanks or tapers..............Ed

PS ..for the non-builder Bob also builds complete cane rods.