Thinking About Cane

Well... After getting laughed off the rodbuildingforum.com website for asking about how to go about making a five piece float rod with out resorting to going the spey blank route which was recommended by a few fellow steelheaders (you obviously didn't read my post well enough). 

I came across a few threads dedicated to build a two strip cane fly-rod.  So after researching this matter a little more I have decided to dive head first in this endeavor and build a three piece 13' cane float rod.  I'm not buying an already made blank.  I am buying the bamboo pole and will then split it, plane it, glue it, plane it again and then finish the rod off with my stainless-steel wire guides, utilize spliced ferrules, and silk thread to attach the guides to the blank.  The only bad thing about this build is I will be using the two strip quad cane set up due to the fact that I do not have access to a planing form.  However, building a rod using this style can be done without a form thus the other name it was given was Poor Man's Quad.  I will post pictures of the progress of the build.  The goal of this build is to learn how a particular taper affects the action of the rod and how that rod behaves with that particular taper.  Keep in mind I am not reinventing the wheel.  I am simply trying to create a fishing rod that I can learn something from and have fun doing it.

As for my graphite multi-piece float rod.  It is still floating around in my head on how to go about making it.  I am stuck at how to go about building the taper and finding the perfect blanks to use to find that perfect action I am looking for with out seeing the blanks in person and feeling each one.  I set out a number of years ago to build a spliced-tip float rod and last October I made it but I didn't finish wrapping the tip.  I think this year I will get that done and finish wrapping the rod (it was pictured and mentioned in my other posts).  So stay tuned in to this post as I will be updating this blog as I complete each step in the process of building my two-strip quad cane float rod.