Tim, I don't know if they sold blanks, but they did do some private labeling. Some of their stuff was sold in miscellaneous hardware stores all over the place at one time.

I think yoy have discovered the joy of fishing bamboo. I do enjoy the casting, sometimes I will just go into the yard and lawn cast one of the boos. Of course I get the typical heckeling from an occasional neighbor, but then again, if they knew what I felt casting them, they would probably join me. I went into my favorite sly shop recently and tooka zero wt. out into the parking lot and while I did enjoy casting it, I didn't find it very difficult to put it aside in favor of a Partridge of Redditch full parabolic. Call it emotion, or whatever you will, there is almost a feeling of a soul in the bamboo, and it is certainly a good feeling.