Barder rod for sale

[Barbulus]

Anyone want to purchase a used Edward Barder rod - "The Bishop" - Number 16 - albeit with a slight "droop"...Hmmmmmm

See........a well known internet auction site: item:

190916534151


Regards

Barbulus

[Nobby]

I did see that...not a droop really at all, the bend comes from one exact point in the tip section, half way up. It will come out with heat.....but will it stay out when loaded up?



I'd be inclined to want to check that out physically I think. I'm fairly sure the seller lives in Ealing, West London.

[Barbulus]

That is a very good point Nobby. I imagine it will come out but will it stay out ? Definate need to be "waggled"....

Barbulus

[Hoppy-Doffton]

Surely for the ammount these rods cost , there should be a lifetime guarantee.

[Snape]

If Edward's rods develop a proper set then he will straighten it as part of an ongoing service.
This damage is something more serious and is due to some form of abuse possibly an accident (eg being sat on) causing the tip section to be severely stressed in a very localised section. Edward will almost certainly say that this cannot be straightened successfully and will re-take the set once a big fish is hooked. Edward charges £800 for a new tip section.

[Barbulus]

Thank you Snape. A serious point that.....it has made any possible, ridiculous, decision very easy for me.....and I may say has avoided "that conversation" with the small, but somewhat none the less, remarkably "fiery" on fishing related matters, Mrs Barbulus !

regards

Barbulus

[Beresford]

I was going to bid on this rod, with a view to having it sorted however, having reflected on Snape's wisdom I'll pass.

[Michael]

If Edward's rods develop a proper set then he will straighten it as part of an ongoing service.
This damage is something more serious and is due to some form of abuse possibly an accident (eg being sat on) causing the tip section to be severely stressed in a very localised section. Edward will almost certainly say that this cannot be straightened successfully and will re-take the set once a big fish is hooked. Edward charges £800 for a new tip section.

Years ago, at the dream factory,whilst Edward was tinkering with one of my rods, he told me of a case where a chap left his rod in the rod rest and a giant weed raft drifted passed, causing the rod to bend around sideways, a one might say, it rogered his rod. This rod is seriously rogered

[Barbulus]

Having just seen what a Chapman rod has, in the last two minutes, just sold for on that well known auction site...dare I say I know exactly what you mean ! Yikes !

[Macko]

Hence my preference for impregnated rods