Note from the publisher: This product page indicates this book is in (Japanese), but this book is written in (English). Amazon USA synchronizes the information to amazon Japan, and the seller cannot change the page title, product details, package quantity, and product image. The package number is just one as an ordinal book. Please do not worry, "MOSTLY BAMBOO" is a 100% English book! This is a book unveiling the secret of eighteen fly rod makers in Japan. Even though the high-quality fly rods are being made in Japan these days, Japanese fly rod makers are less known to non-Japanese fly fishers only because there is little information available. Most Japanese fly rod manufacturers, especially bamboo rod makers, are not even small businesses, but rather an artist who does not care about the marketing. They are not like Orvis and Hardy which want to provide product information worldwide. This book takes readers on a journey through the manufacturing process of bamboo rods, fiberglass rods, and graphite rods, and presents information on the materials, methods of manufacturing, and how the manufacturers use the rods in the fishing field. The author's side story, in which he discusses his ideal fly rod, sometimes serious, sometimes frivolous, is a delightful read and will be of great interest to every fly fishers in the world.
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Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (New, Paperback, 2020). 2020 1st edition. 8vo paperback (152 x 231mm). Ppvii,357. Beautifully illustrated with b&w photographs, and with a colour section of photographs of rods at rear. Fine new unread paperback. This is an excellent compendium of accounts of contemporary Japanese makers of flyrods and their work - written in good English. Chapters include: Why Tonkin? Why urethane?; Be the pioneer / Kakuhiro rod; A man of Japanese tradition / Kagerow bamboo rod; To be long, or not to be long? That is the question; Make the game difficult / Genius rod maker; Catch shaku, that's my job / Kawatsura Fly Rod; First pedigree: Japanese Payne / K. Murata Rod Co; Enter ye in at the straight gate / Ryuno Rod Custom; A painter / Awol; Gone fishin' / J. Yokota Rod Maker; All by myself; Sacred bamboo / Harada Takezao; Beyond the material / Fagus; The true fly rod maker / Campanella; No border, no gender; A good girl grows up in disciplined house / Takachi Trout Rods; Red dress among dark suits / Chako Rod; The spirit of inventor; A trout bum becomes a bamboo rod maker; Asama Rodworks; House of invention / Maekawa Craft; Experiment to the future; Honda spirit / Bum Rod; A scientist / Takemoto Rod; Doctrine of the mean / Solid Octagon; Showcase (colour section); Last words. . Seller Inventory # 52408