This page contains most of the known works dedicated to rodbuilding and/or related topics. Many of them are a must read, either for the novice interested in technique, or the advanced builder interested in the history of the craft.

Chris Wholford's great reference site



The Bookstore

The Anglers Art

1-800-848-1020

Call for their Catalog (It's a keeper)

Callahan & Company, Booksellers

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Just Good Books

Both new and used, rare & out-of-print sporting book

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Vendor of fine sporting books - rare * used * out-of-print * new

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Over a million used, new and out of print books in stock every day

Amzon.com Books

2.5 million titles

Acses Book Search Engine

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The Video Section

Title

Producer

Source

Handcrafting Bamboo Fly Rods
The Video

Wayne Cattanach

The Anglers Art
1-800-848-1020
"DIGGER"
Portrait of a Bamboo Fly Rod Maker

Stoney Kill Films

Ron Barch
See: "The Planing Form" on Homepage


The Stacks

Title

Author

Publisher

A Master's Guide to Building A Bamboo Fly Rod

Everett Garrison with Hoagy B. Carmichael

Martha's Glen Publishing Co. [1977]

Handcrafting Bamboo Fly Rods

Wayne Cattanach

privately published [1992]

How to Make Bamboo Fly Rods

George W. Barnes

Winchester Press [1977]

Fundamentals of Building a Bamboo Fly Rod

Gerorge Maurer and Bernard Elser

The Countryman Press,1998. (0881504165, 1998)

The Anglers Bamboo

Luis Marden

Lyons & Burford [1997]

Best of The Planing Form

R. J. Barch & Robert Mc Keon

Alder Creek Enterprises, Inc. [1997]

The Lovely Reed - An Enthusiasts Guide To Building Bamboo Fly Rods

Howell, Jack

Pruett [1998]

The Bamboo Rod
And How to Build it

Claude M. Kreider

Centennial Publications [1992]

The Trout
Stream and Rod

Bill Phillips

[1976]

Making Fishing-Rods as a Hobby

Harry Brotherton

[1960]

Amateur Rodmaking

Perry D Frazer

[1922]

How to build your own Split Cane Fishing rod

G. Lawton Moss

[1947,54]

Rods- How to make them

J.B. Walker

[1959]

How to build your own Split Cane Fishing rod

G. Lawton Moss

[1947,54]

The Fine Bamboo Fly Rod, a Master's Secrets of Restoration and Repair

Stuart Kirkfield

Stackpole Press [1986]

The Angler's Workshop

Letcher Lambuth

Champoeg Press [1979]

The Angler's Workshop
Vol 1. Rodmaking

Perry D. Frazier

1908 (1st edition)

Bamboo Rod Restoration Handbook

Michael Sinclair

Centennial Publications [1994]

Fly Rods and Fly Tackle

Henry P. Wells

Harper & brothers [1885]

The Idyl of the Split-Bamboo

Dr. George Parker Holden

Stuart & Kidd Company [1920]

Professional Split-Bamboo rod Building Manual and Manufacturer's Guide

George Leonard Herter

privately published [1949]

LA CANNE A MOUCHE. TRAITE PRATIQUE DE CONSTRUCTION ET D'HABILLAGE DES CANNES A MOUCHE.

Josselin de LESPINAY

LA SIMARRE - ZI no2 37300 JOUE LES TOURS.

Stangbyning - Bygning af splitcane-fluestaeger

Preben Torp Jacobsen - in Danish

privately published

Sadan vaelger og bygger man fiskestanger

Henrik Bech

[1964]

Splitcanestaenger-Bygning af Splitcanestaenger

Poul Buch Jensen

[1974]

La Canne a mouche a Truite, Objet d'Art

Joann Robin

[1946]

Classic Bamboo Rodmakers Past and Present

Dick Spurr

Centennial Publication [1992]

Colorado Classic Cane
A History of the Colorado bamboo Rod Makers

Dick Spurr & Michael Sinclair

Centennial Publications [1991]

Fishing bamboo

John Gierach ; illustrations by Glenn Wolff

Lyons Press (1558215913, 1997)

Wes Jordan - Profile of a Rodmaker

Dick Spurr and Gloria Jordan

[1992]

Dickerson
The Man and His Rods

Gerald S. Stein, M.D. and James W. Schaaf

Centennial Publications [1991]

The Wise Fishermans Encyclopedia

Wise & Co.

[1951]

TROUT

Ernie Schwiebert

The Fishermans Encyclopedia

Gabrielson, LaMonte

Stackpole and Heck, Inc. [1950]

In the ring of the Rise

Vincent C. Marinaro

Nick Lyons Books [1976]

The Fly and the Fish

John Atherton

The Mcmillan Company [1951]

Planes and Chisels

Fine Woodworking Mag.

The Tauton Press [1985]

Planecraft: A Woodwork's Handbook

John Sainbury

Sterling Publishing Co. [1984]

A complete Guide to Sharpening

Leonard Lee

The Taunton Press [1995]



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