The process of taking a whole piece of bamboo and turning it into a fishable rod, involves many steps and hours of work. However, the process is what makes fishing with cane so special. At Karma Kane Rods, we are willing to provide instruction in both classroom and personal settings, where we will assist and guide you through the many steps needed for rod completion. And hopefully shorten your learning curve.

Building a Bamboo Fly Rod Below is a brief look at creating one's own bamboo fly rod. A few years ago I wrote a seven chapter series on making a bamboo rod blank. Woodworker and fisherman Jeff Day decided to combine his two passions and create a useful and durable bamboo fly fishing rod. I’ve been a woodworker and a fly fisherman for years, so it was probably inevitable that sooner or later I would build a bamboo fly rod.

This is how we learned to work with cane and we would be honored and humbled to pass this knowledge on to you. Our instruction will involve both theory and technique as we know it, but the actual work will be performed by you. At times we will work side by side in order to complete a task, but in other instances you will be left alone with your tools, cane, and thoughts. Bamboo Splitting Tools.

Upcoming Shop Closures & Order Notes Head’s UpOur first closure in 2019, for both Golden Witch and Peak Bamboo, will be February 3rd and 4th, just a pair of days, then a longer stretch from February 22nd – March 4th. Following this, we’ll be closed April 19th – April 29th. We anticipate another closure in mid to late June, but the dates aren’t pinned down yet. Please order custom products – agate guides, anything that must be blued, that sort of thing – at least three weeks prior to the start of a shop closure if you want it shipped before the closure; orders with shorter lead times may be completed, but no promises. Orders with only non-custom items usually ship the business day after you place the order, even in the run-up towards a shop closure; we hustle to get your orders out the door and in your hands. I tend to work non-stop when the shop is open, so I sincerely appreciate your understanding during those times when I shut down to spend time with family, especially now that the boys are out of the house and, frequently, far from home. You may notice a trend here, a new work rhythm that I’m experimenting with so I don’t burn out.

Rather than pretending to take weekends off, which rarely happens, I bundle my down time and skip town so I can’t work. Despite appearances, this means the shop is only sealed up about 85 days per year vs. 124+ days per year if I actually didn’t work on weekends and took four weeks of vacation, plus Federal holidays, to match my wife’s vacation time. I offer the math because a few folks have noted that “it seems like GW is always on vacation.” Generally speaking, the shop will be open for 5-7 weeks, then closed for a week with a ramp-down Friday and ramp-up Monday on both ends of the closed week although that sort of neatly planned closure doesn’t always pan out. We’re closed on most major U.S. Holidays: New Years, Easter, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, & Christmas. Everyone involved here – Matt, Nikki, Drake, & I - appreciates your business and your patience with custom orders.

Golden Witch & Peak Bamboo couldn’t do what we do without you. –Russ Please see our for general shipping Q&A. Written by: Posted on: If you have the least question about ferrules – if you’re new to ferrules or only moderately experienced – please, please read this information at least once. Remote pc access. I promise, it will help to prevent mistakes and misunderstandings. Welcome to the Golden Witch Ferrule Advice Ramble! I need to let you, the rodmaker or restorationist reading this page, know that I have lost clients because of ferrules. Ferrules are finicky, challenging, yet almost invariably necessary and worthwhile little beasts.