Fundamentals of Building a Bamboo Fly-Rod Paperback – March 7, 2017

This is an excellent book written by two experts in the field. They describe the complete process of building a split bamboo fly rod. The text is easy to follow and a pleasure to read. No step in the process has been overlooked, and the writing and logic of each process is clearly written and easy to understand.

Excellent condition. Fast shipping. All around great transaction.

First of all, I'm not a carpenter and I've never used carpenter tools before. I'm also not a native english speaker, so please excuse any possible spelling mistakes.I've purchased the book after reading several materials on the Internet, hoping that it would be a complete passing-through the split cane rod building subject, and so it was. It goes through all the required steps for building your first rod, with all the necessary details. The chapters are well structured in a logical order, and provides guidance to purchase the right tools, or to improvise your own when possible. For someone who never build a split cane rod is a very good lecture, a starting point, and it is also a point of reference for any further materials found on the Internet. Money well spent as Americans use to say.

A great book for anyone interested in building fly rods in general. It contains a great deal of Bamboo rod building information but also has a lot which would be useful to graphite or fiberglass rod builders. For instance, it has one of the best chapters that I have seen on the rod spine, how to find where it is and how to mount the guides once one has determined the side it is on. Well written, well illustrated and easy to read. Many very useful tables.

The bible of bamboo rod making

Must have to build a bamboo rod; great help.

This book is a great introduction to the art of cane rod building. This teaches you everything that you need to know. I found the suggestions on how to keep the individual pieces of cane organized during the tapering process to be particularly useful. This is truly a wonderful book and although I'll never be a master in this fine art, I do hope to eventually create a fishable rod. I very much appreciate Mr. Maurer and Mr. Elser taking the time to share their knowledge through this book.

I bought this book to help myself and a friend do the final building on a bamboo blank that I have. It's helpful and fairly well written. Illustartions etc. are most helpful. The only small issue I have is that the chronology of the work steps and some of the logic is a little bit scattered in each chapter, so you need to thoroughly read and re-read and comprehend the chapter you are working on. The chapters (each a major chronological step in construction) themselves are well laid out. I think the "scattered" bits may come form the book having two authors. All in all the book is well worth the money if you intend to undertake this sort of project.