rod restoration

[huck_the_meat]

I was thinking about getting into bamboo rod restoration. I already have a lot of rods. Just need the to put the time and effort into them. Anyone else here restore bamboo?

[Curtis Fry]

Norm would be a good guy to start with...he's the bamboo guy

[FISHINWEAZ]

I have a few bamboo rods myself including a bamboo trolling rod. These are all old rods. Thought about restoring them, but I'm not sure if that would depreciate the current value. So I thought to myself that the old worn down, rustic look to them sorta adds the the look as they hang on my walls.

[Norm]

There are 2 kinds of restoration IMO. First, Restoring a rod to its original state and being very careful to restore it to to its authentic original form.

Second: there is just cosmetic restoration to bring back to life without worry of its original state.

99% of older bamboo rods can fall into the latter because a stripping rewrapping and refinish are not going to hurt the value because the value is minimal anyway. What I'm getting at was there were a lot of production rods that were good rods but do not hold much value due to who or what company manufactured them. Now If you are lucky enough to have a true Gem from a maker like PH Young, Leonard, Payne, or the like then you want to be very carefull in the restoration. If a rod is in good shape and you want to strip it down and refinish it, that is a fairly easy project. If the rod ha delaminated, lost ferrules, or is broken its a much more difficult process.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Norm

[Cary]

HTM, between tying all those flies and restoring cane rods, when are you going to have time to fish??

[huck_the_meat]

You are right, I am not fishing nearly as much as I used too. Oh well. Norm, thanks for the reply. The rods that I am trying to restore are for the most part lower-mid production rods. H-I, South Bend, and some no-namers. I have one more question. One of my bamboo pieces is missing the ferrule. Do you know of any good places to get ferrules?
Thanks for the help!

[newtyer]

Ooooh they got a new website from last i visited it.

http://www.goldenwitch.com/

Norm will probably know of some others.

[caltourist]

try this message board also, they have a lot of stuff but the information is scattered.
http://www.thebambooflyrod.com/Interactive/General/