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I must admit mate those on your latest superb creation are real class ferrules.
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Wal.
Nobby, I'm pretty sure that the process or formula that Sharpes used was originally patented by Orvis and licenced to Sharpes but other makers produced impregnated rods presumably using their own formulas.Nobby wrote:Well, as I understand it, the process was invented and patented by the owner of Sharpes of Aberdeen, sorry..I forget his name.
Macko wrote:Hi Wal, I think the extra weight is negligible, and I wouldn't say that impregnated cane deadens
the feel, my Partridge of Redditch impregnated 11ft carp rod is just sublime and put a bend in it,
it comes back dead straight every time, noticed not so with normal cane which normally needs a waggle or two. My rod also has that springiness you mention, lovely feeling.
ATB Macko