Bamboo Fly Rod Building
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- Hollow building bamboo fly rod
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- Linking the pieces of bamboo fly rod
- Hand grasp for fly rod
- Guides for bamboo fly rods
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- Varnishing the bamboo fly rod
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BAMBOO HEAT-TREATING
EXCERPTS CHAPTER III
OVEN MODELS
The "tube" of Serge Bodeau
Mr. Bodeau, an outstanding builder and one of the first members of the Club Français du Refendu, solved the heat distribution and temperature stability problems in a simple and secure way.
It is indeed, the best oven I know (photos 3.1 & 3.2).
photo 3.1 - click to enlarge - photo 3.2
An insulated ribbon resistor is wrapped around a copper tube with two thermal breakers controlled by thermocouples that ensure the temperature stability inside the tube.
The triangular rough strips in bundles of approximately 20 by 20cms are placed inside the tube on a grid cradle or half copper tube and left for four minutes.
The oven with a thermal dipper
Antoine Petit's proposal is a very interesting solution for a bamboo oven.
3.3 Sketch of the Antoine Petit's
oven with a thermal dipper.
Rather than an attempting to solve the problem of providing even heat distribution, the suggested oven circumvents the difficulty in a same way as that of the tube of Serge Bodeau :
the strips are placed along the oven and so encounter all the heat points.
A thermal dipper would then be required to adjust the temperature.
Even if it is possible to use thermocouples to control the dipper by means of impulses it is not necessary if the thermostat is correctly adjusted at the hottest place.
Building principle (Figure 3.3)
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