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Rod Services

The primary services I offer at East Slope Rod Works include vintage and contemporary bamboo rod restoration, rod refinishing, re-varnishing and repair. These services are offered for complete rods or on individual rod sections as needed. Click below for more details of my rod services.

Rod Restoration

Restoration service is about refreshing a vintage cane rod back to its ORIGINAL glory.

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Rod Refinishing

Refinishing (re-varnishing) is about refreshing a cane rod without maintaining a its ORIGINAL characteristics. 

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Rod Repair

I will tackle most minor to moderate repairs to vintage and contemporary bamboo rods.

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Rod  Restoration - service is about refreshing (and repair if needed) a vintage cane rod back to its ORIGINAL glory. This may involve partial to complete removal of all components, rod straightening, ferrule resetting, cork grip cleaning and repair, reel seat repair and resetting, guide re-wrapping and bamboo re-varnishing and polishing. The goal of restoration is to maintain the rod's ORIGINALITY. So in the end, the newly restored rod should look as close as possible to the day it was first constructed.

Rod Restoration
Restoration of Goodwin Granger 8642 Special
Restoration of Horrocks Ibbottson Featherweight

Rod Refinishing - is also about refreshing of a cane rod, however, attention to maintaining a rod's ORIGINAL characteristics is not the primary goal. In fact, refinishing may include purposeful alterations that could improve upon a rod's performance or appearance. For instance, changing the reel seat or grip style, adding more line guides, or simply re-wrapping with different color silk thread may be part of the process. Refinishing may involve partial to complete removal of all components, rod straightening, ferrule resetting, cork grip cleaning and repair, reel seat repair and resetting, guide re-wrapping and bamboo re-varnishing and polishing.

Rod Re-varnishing - this is refinishing in the most basic sense in that it includes stripping of the old finish and re-varnishing, while leaving all else intact.

 

Rod Refinishing
Refinished HI Tonka Queen trade rod
Refinished HI Tonka Queen trade rod
Refinished HI Tonka Queen trade rod
Refinished HI Tonka Queen trade rod
Refinished HI Tonka Queen trade rod
Restored Heddon #17 Black Beauty 8'
Restored Heddon #17 Black Beauty 8' - ferrules and tips
Restored Heddon #17 Black Beauty 8' - rod inscription
Restored Heddon #17 Black Beauty 8' - signature wraps
Restored Heddon #17 Black Beauty 8' - wraps

Rod Repair - I will tackle most minor to moderate repairs to bamboo rods. These typically involve rod straightening, ferrule resetting and re-wrapping, cork grip cleaning and repair, reel seat repair and resetting, guide replacement. I will also perform major repairs involving broken or cracked rod sections. However, I do not produce sections or scarf new flats to broken rods myself. For this work, I rely on several expert rod makers in the U.S. to provide a portion of the repair work.

 

Click on picture below to see scarf tip repair of vintage Horrocks - Ibbottson Tonka Queen

 

Rod Repair
Restoration and repair of Horrocks Ibbottson Tonka Queen

New Bamboo Rods - I also offer custom finishing of new rods from blanks. For more details see the New Rods page for more details.

 

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