Thinking of a hollow built...

They always say.. bamboo rod is heavy unlike modern glass and graphite rods. No doubt about it because it is solid.

A way to take off some weight of the bamboo rod is by hollowing it. I don't think hollowing is done to the tip section, but it can be done at the butt section where most of the weight is. The 1st hollow built fly rod was built way back in 1933 by Edwin C. Powell and he patented it.

Later Lew Stoner of The Winston Rod Company devised a different hollowing method called "fluting". Having the inner apex of the bamboo planed off making a concave channel at the center line.



A lot of bamboo rod makers are building hollow built fly rods and that gives me the urge to build one myself... in time to come.