Rod storage

[Loop Erimder]

What is a 'set' ? Does it mean a bend?

[Snape]

What is a 'set' ? Does it mean a bend?

A permanent bend in the cane due to being kept incorrectly, overloading by hooking a particularly big/powerful fish or stressing the tip by having too acute an angle between line and rod usually when landing a fish or by sitting on it etc!

[Beresford]

Mark as tempting as a horizontal ready made rod rack might be I think it's asking for trouble in the long term. I feel cane rods have a lot invested in them, be it money and/or time spent on their restoration and I wouldn't do anything to them that might risk storage damage, which I think would be heartbreaking. Float collections, angling art, reels and other such items are probably safer bets for display than rods.

[Sparky]

In my experience (I actually have some here!) storing a rod horizontally has little effect on it. If you take a look on my thread "The Palace No. 6", you can see how I've stored a cane spinner and greenhart fly rod for the best part of 4-5 years. They are on my bedroom wall, each support by two hooks.

Looking back on it, I would have not done this, for fear of the rod sagging, however they are still in brilliant condition. (sag - wise)

Just my 2 pennies.

Sparky

[Loop Erimder]

IF a set has taken place could you not place it in a steamer and then bend it back into a straight?

[PDuffield]

IF a set has taken place could you not place it in a steamer and then bend it back into a straight?

Many of the rods I've restored have had a set, usually in the tip, but sometimes in the middle and/or butt sections. Split cane and even whole cane sections can be straightened again using heat - I rotate the sections in and out of the flame from a gas ring, but the set can sometimes come back in use, or even in storage.

I usually heat the section after the rod has been stripped prior to restoration, but I have successfully straightened a couple of rods with the varnish on too, but very carefully!

I know several members have a lot more experience of this than I do, in fact I only plucked up the courage to 'put flame to cane' after reading some of the posts here.

[Nobby]

Sometimes the cane is shot and immediately takes a set again when bent.

I tend to try and heat and bend them straight and test them now, before I do anything else. I have two rods in the loft bought at auction by a friend abroad, who had them posted to me for inspection. Both rods had bad sets ( so much for auction house appraisals and honesty) and both would not hold.

Two very valuable rods he paid top money for and both need full re-furbs and new tips. One of them, a Hardy, uses rings no longer available anywhere.........:-(


Rock and a hard place for my pal...sell them as needing a LOT of work and money and take a huge knock, or have them done-up and have paid far over the odds for them????

It might be that a bit of varnish 'pickles up' over the flame, but it invariably can be patted down again and seems to key to the cane again.

[Mark]

Finally got round to building one using Nobby's advise by modifying a shelving unit from B&Q. Only I did not have a big enough round drill bit so I just cut out some 'V's with a fret saw.

[The Sweetcorn Kid]

Looks peachy Mark....nice one mate!! :hat:

[Loop Erimder]

Have just recently knocked up this rod rack, cost about a fiver, just need to stain it now