Repairing old bamboo

DH has tied some beautiful graphites, and now he’s trying to teach himself a new trick.

He wanted to learn bamboo so he bought an older inexpensive (read cheap) bamboo with issues. It’s a 3/1 8’6". The two lower sections are fine as far as the bamboo but the top section has delamination issues. From what he’s read in various places, most builders seem to have good feelings about Titebond, Resorcinol and Hide Glue (and maybe Gorilla Glue). Is that a fair assesment? He’s old fashion and like doing his homework before he starts.

Any suggestions I can pass to him?

Try to find a copy of Micheal Sinclair’s Bamboo Rod Restoration Handbook published by Centennial Publications or some of the Planing Form newsletters or best of books.

Thanks for the tip. He heard about that book, and our library is trying to locate a copy.

He’s learning something new every day. Yesterday’s lesson: don’t heat up the tip to remove it. You could put out an eye as it shoots across the room with a resounding retort.

Same goes with the ferrules…careful where your aiming them. I put a hole in the ceiling of the shop!

Brad

Found this yet? [url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/bamboo/archive.html:6bbae]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/bamboo/archive.html[/url:6bbae]

Wow, thanks. I’m sure he’ll be glued to the monitor for hours.

have DH e mail me with any questions. I’ve done hundreds of rods like this. i’d be happy to help.


Thanks, Cheffy, I’ll do that. It may be a day or two. He’s finding a programming flaw in a server’s back-up which happened the same day his PC decided to give him fits. But he said thanks and will be in contact.

Progress report: we spent Saturday looking around for the right varnish (not an easy thing in Boise), and Sunday was spent gluing the top section, wrapping, cleaning, rewrapping. Sunday was the issue of the slight bend. Yesterday was working a cork pattern and begin the sanding.

I know very little about bamboo, but my novice eyes and fingers see a great improvement.

We’ll post pictures later.

[This message has been edited by DianeID (edited 03 May 2006).]