Re Twohanded rods - Mikael Marklund

> Date:          Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:22:40 -0500
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> Subject:       Re: Twohanded rods

> In a message dated 96-10-15 18:03:33 EDT, you write:
> 
> << Has anyone american tapers for two-handed flyrods? There has been 
>  some builders in the US. I think that Payne made some, and wasn=A6t 
>  there a builder named F.E.Thomas? Please let me know if you got 
>  something. >>
> Dear Mikael et al,
>      I do not have any tapers, but some anecdotal evidence re: the Payne
> two-handers, gleaned from Schweibert and LaBranche.  These rods were alm=
ost
> certainly designed for overhead rather than spey casting.  Hendrickson,
> Steenrod, and LaBranche used theirs for dry-fly salmon fishing in Canada=
.
>  Steenrod is credited with suggesting to Payne that the middle and upper
> sections of the two-handers would make perfect dry-fly trout rods, and
> Payne's 8 1/2' df is supposedly based on this.  LaBranche's descriptions=
 of
> fishing one of these rods make it pretty clear that he was casting in a
> conventional overhead manner.   It is also possible that I am misreading
> LaBranche, and/or Payne made other two-handers with more speylike tapers=
 as
> well.  I believe that the original Hendrickson and LaBranche rods are in
> museum collections somewhere.
>      Not much, but FWIW...
> ---Roger Wiggin, Portland OR
> 
Thank you! Sounds like a rather week top to be used as dry - fly rod!
When I tried to make my own tapers according to Garrison, my 
twohanded rods went to soft too. The first rod that I made and was 
pleased with was from a taper I got from a swedish rodbuilder named 
Kenneth Bostroem. I hope he doesn=B4t mind me posting it. Here it is...

Spey Special  13'   # 9-10 
Butt
Dist(mm) - Dia(mm)
0      -   14,80
55    -   14,70
255  -   14,20
455  -   13,70
655  -   13,20
855  -   12,70
1055 -   12,20
1300 -   11,50

Middle
Dist(mm) - Dia(mm)
0       -   11,25
60     -   11,00
260   -   10,40
460   -   10,00
660   -   9,40
860   -   9,10
1060 -   8,50
1305 -   8,25

Top
Dist(mm) - Dia(mm)
0      -   8,25
160  -   8,00
360  -   7,30
560  -   6,60
760  -   5,90
960  -   5,10
1160 -   4,30
1360 -   3,50 

The default handle-length is 650mm. Rings could be placed:
-13-15-18-20-24-25-25-28-33-39-59 cm.

The problem is to get good, thick-walled bamboo and good ferrules. 
Please let me know if anyone builds it and tries it.

Regards...
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Mikael Marklund

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