GouldFish  Custom Fly Rods

Bamboo is a beautiful light hard wood but is a nightmare to work with on the lathe as it has a tendency to split and come off in chunks.  This is how we take this: The first step is to plane it to get parallel flat edges - here I am just using a standard wood plane set to a fine cut. Once I have two flat surfaces on each side it is time to saw sections and then stack them and glue them. Finally drill a centre hole and turn very carefully on the lathe.  I had to sharpen my lat

This custom glass fly rod built on a Kabuto fly blank is made with transparent guide wraps, an agate stripping guide from Perfect Agate Guides in Poland, a Lemke reel seat and flor grade Portuguese cork.  The reel seat was turned from a beautiful piece of highly figured olive wood from Bethlehem. This is a lovely example of a new school fibreglass fly rod custom built. GouldFish Custom Rods