You are right about what you say Marco. To my mind a production of 100 rods/yr from a 3 man shop does seem low.

A cane rod may take 30 to 50 hrs to complete in man hours but it is not in a continous stream of labor. You will have to wait for a period of a day to a week several times in the process of building the rod. The wait time is for your time slot to arrive then a couple of months for the rod to go from start to ship date.
splinter