12-15-2008, 12:54 AM
>...that was all there was till around the 70's if I remember right.
There were allot of H&I's and Montagues (Sears and Roebucks). <
Goodness, no, FG. Fibreglas rods were introduced in the 50s, and there were still a few steel rods kicking around.
Original fibreglas rods used solid blanks, and were just as abominable as that sounds. But good hollow blanks were soon available.
Graphite was introduced, IIRC in the late 60s, and all those combined materials like graphite/magnesium and boron followed in the 70s.
A funny story about those cheap bamboo rods. When I was working down at the marina a guy comes along with one of them he'd inherited. Wanted to know how valuable it was, cuz, after all, it was a bamboo rod with two tips.
You should have seen his face when I told him the box was worth more than the rod. He didn't believe it until I offered him fifteen bucks right then for the box, and he could keep the rod.
Brook
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There were allot of H&I's and Montagues (Sears and Roebucks). <
Goodness, no, FG. Fibreglas rods were introduced in the 50s, and there were still a few steel rods kicking around.
Original fibreglas rods used solid blanks, and were just as abominable as that sounds. But good hollow blanks were soon available.
Graphite was introduced, IIRC in the late 60s, and all those combined materials like graphite/magnesium and boron followed in the 70s.
A funny story about those cheap bamboo rods. When I was working down at the marina a guy comes along with one of them he'd inherited. Wanted to know how valuable it was, cuz, after all, it was a bamboo rod with two tips.
You should have seen his face when I told him the box was worth more than the rod. He didn't believe it until I offered him fifteen bucks right then for the box, and he could keep the rod.
Brook
http://www.the-outdoor-sports-advisor.com
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