My first bamboo rod built out

[DonCooksey]

Not sure this would be of much interest here, but I had to show it off. This was my first attempt to build out a new bamboo rod from an unferruled hexagonal bamboo blank - a Dickerson 761510 taper by Dennis Stone (a great bamboo rod builder in Oregon). This rod is to be my go-to stealthy 5-wt meadow stream rod, so I went with all dark components - dark nickel-silver reel seat hardware (with a rosewood insert), dark nickel-silver winding check, dark amber agate stripping guide with dark nickel-silver frame, dark snake guides and tip tops, and I blued a set of ferrules for the rod. I went with semi-translucent brown thread wraps with black tipping - sort of like Lyle Dickerson would have used. I've refinished some old bamboo rods, but this was my first attempt to turn down stations, trim sections to length, make up a cork grip, and install all components. I can hardly wait to try it out after the varnish cures for a few weeks.

[joshfish]

thats a beautiful looking rod.

[Hairstacker]

Wow, great job! Very nice looking rod you got there.

[Woodman]

Nice craftsmanship. A labor of love.

Give us a report when you fish it.

[STEELIES/26c3]

Absolutely awesome work.

Nothing like having a rod made to your own specs~

You'll be eternally rewarded in the mountains~

M

[Scott V]

Can't wait to hear how it fishes.

[PMD]

GORGEOUS! I'd be afraid to use it. What reel are you gonna mate to it?

[Dave E.]

Don that's a gorgeous piece of functional artwork.
Just out of curiosity, setting aside the time it took you to acquire the skill to do this and all the research that went into this project, how many hours do you suppose went into this little beauty?


Best, Dave

[BillB]

Wow! What a beauty Don. I would just lay it on a table so I could look at it every time I walked past it. Did you use color preserver on the wraps, and what is the finish?

[Bryan Morgan]

Almost too pretty to use.