Building A Bamboo Rod Part I. In this series of columns I hope to give folks an understanding of how cane rods are constructed. Although many rods being built today are built using only hand tools, the majority of classic rods were built with the aid of machines, and so I will also address the use o...

The Charles H. Demarest Company It would be impossible to write a series about cane rodbuilders without first starting with the folks that have been almost solely responsible for the importation and promotion of Tonkin cane as a rodbuilding material. I just spent a very pleasant part of a February S...

Wagner Rods Guestbook Thank you for visiting our pages. Please take a moment to Add your comments to our guestbook. Great web page. I'll be contacting you about a rod in the future. The bronze trout looks like a mooneye to me. Paul Paul Yochim <susan-paulyochim@mediane.net> Woodbury, Minnesota US...

Cane Rodbuilding Pages We are very pleased to announce that we are featured in Ed Engle's new book, Splitting Cane, Conversations with Bamboo Rodmakers. Read about it and reserve your copy here. The following pages are provided as a service for those interested in learning more about bamboo rod hist...

2000 Cane Rodbuilding Class Photos September 2000 Class Gary Elledge, John Martens, George HolmstromIII, Bill Lent Here it is, February of 2001, and I'm just finally getting these pics up from our September 2000 rodbuilding class. This class was somewhat different then others in that everyone had so...