[Sandy Nelson]

Have they been cut out and the pieces scarf jointed back together?

every single one while still in strips

It's hollow as well

Sandy

[Irvine Ross]

It's hollow as well

Is that so you could fit a proper carbon fibre blank inside the veneer of split cane

Irvine

[Marc Fauvet]

     

[Rob Brownfield]

Is that so you could fit a proper carbon fibre blank inside the veneer of split cane

Irvine

Didn't Bruce and Walker do that a few years back? Copycat!! 

[Hamish Young]

every single one while still in strips

That's a shit load of work 

It's hollow as well

Interesting, difficult to compare to another split cane rod - but how much of a weight saving do you estimate that has achieved Or was that done for another reason......

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[Rob Brownfield]

If hollow..is it a Brandin rod by any chance? Faster, better damped and tighter loops thanks to the hollow sections?

Hardy produced a hollow cane rod, the Hollowkona, based on the Palakona. I believe it was called the Phantom. What a lovely name for a rod

[Sandy Nelson]

Faster, better damped and tighter loops thanks to the hollow sections?

Thats the idea some bonding trickery helps (secrets i don't know about ) and the Lack of Nodes amplifies it even more, all in quite a special wee tool . The rod was custom built by a very well respected builder and may well increase in value in the future, although i would imagine that would only apply in the States

Sandy

[Hamish Young]

although i would imagine that would only apply in the States

Ahhh.... that'll be because they're only now getting the idea of growing runner beans on canes..... 

I'll get my coat   

H