The Idyl of the Split-Bamboo; A Carefully Detailed Description of the Rod's Building, Prefaced by a Dissertation on the Joys of Angling, There Being a (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...at the point where it is intended that this partition shall come down against the end of the rod-joint, in order to prevent access of water to the otherwise unprotected wood here; and wood absorbs moisture more rapidly from the ends than from the sides, and especially at these bamboo-ends unprotected by enamel. However, neither does the author consider these are a necessity, as he is willing to take the risk of any water finding its way into the joint of a rod that is fitted with ordinary ferrules set on after the manner which will be recommended. Ferrules are cataloged as plain straight; shouldered, capped or swelled; straight with rim or welt; Varieties of ferrules: (1) Plain straight; (2) Shouldered, swelled or capped; (3) Capped with rim welt; 4) Straight with welt, and capped and closed center; (5) Hexagonal ends and shouldered with welt. And some have hexagonal proximal or rod-joint ends--which do not appeal strongly to the majority of experienced anglers. The accompanying illustrations show exactly what is understood by the above terms. The kind here recommended (number 4 in the illustra tion) has a straight-sided female member, and a shouldered male member that is closed at the distal end--" closed-end center." They are obtainable from Abbey and Imbrie, at 97 Chambers Street, New York City, under the name of " bamboo" ferrules. We also have obtained similar satisfactory ferrules from the T. H. Chubb Rod Co., of Post Mills, Vermont, which that firm catalogs as their "special short, straight, welted ferrule, with capped and closed-end center." The Abbey and Imbrie ferrules, at the time of this writing, were supplied in the following sizes, the figures denoting in fractions of an inch the outside...