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EXCERPTS CHAPTER II

The preliminary planing to build a bamboo fly rod

Among all the operations, one that beginners might avoid and many others would wish to avoid is the preliminary planning. Isosceles or scalene triangles and the inability to solve the existing problems can gradually convince the novice builder he will never succeed.

During the initiation courses I have had the occasion to conduct, it was always the major difficulty. Often however, it was a just simple matter of the use of the former together with practice.

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The triangular rough strips

After the rough planing, the strips become rough triangular strips which will be processed in the heat treating oven and possibly impregnated.

The two longest, unpleasant and most difficult processes of the bamboo rod construction are now finished.

When it comes to the hardening operation, six stripes can be hardened at once provided they are assembled and bound together.

The binding can be done by hand.

Nevertheless, if one has a binder available, as described at the "gluing" chapter (chapter 6), it would be better to use it, as it would give a more even and consistent binding.

The binding should be of cotton or linen yarn similar to butchers string or bookbinding yarn.

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