Looking for others experience and opinions here. Which type of rod can be made quicker, a four strip quad or a six sided hex? Why?
Bill O.
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Posts: 296 04/15/2009 16:11 |
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Posts: 106 04/15/2009 21:47 |
Hi Bill,
I'm personally not a big fan of quads (no particular reason; I just never really got them), but I have experimented with them and have made them for customers. Some friends swear by them as well, and I respect the fact that there are countless fly fishers who would use nothing else. I mention all this so you can factor it in to my response, but I'm being as objective as possible. I think it's a wash time-wise. On the one hand there are less strips, but on the other hand they are more difficult to plane. Setting up two forms is more time consuming and requires extra-careful positioning when flipping the strip. Planing is also more difficult as the edges are more fragile, thinner, and subject to chipping and tear-out (milling has the same corner-damage issues, so there's no easy way around this problem). The corners are easy to damage when binding at glue-up. Also, rolling them in your fingers while wrapping is a pain compared to a hex blank (particularly on the butt). There are also the ferrules to swage (not an issue with a hex). They also require a lot more care during straightening, as there is more likelihood of needing to bend the blank in shear to take out a kink. They can also be tricky to varnish as the flats are wide and tend to dome-up in the middle while starving the corners as they dry (a lot of sanding if you want to keep them flat). Net; I think the time spent is the same, but the operations are more tedious. Chuck |
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Posts: 511 04/15/2009 22:13 |
Bill,
I've never made a Penta, but have made hundreds of hex's and a good number of quads... probably around 30 or so. Actually, I don't think that one is any easier or quicker to make than the other. To me, the making of the blank, whether it's with 12 strips or 18 strips, isn't that much difference in time, whether hand planing or bevelling. As I'm sure you are aware, all of the real work is in the detail work; tight wraps, well centered grip, well cut, centered and fitted reel seat and hardware, making the ferrules and fitting them to the cane properly, varnish, varnish, varnish, etc. All in all, I can build a hex rod in 35 to 50 hours or I can build a quad rod in 35 to 50 hours (spread over a fair amount of time, of course) On the average, as Chuck said, the time is a wash. Bob |
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Posts: 297 04/17/2009 10:08 |
Thanks for the great input Chuck and Bob! Bill |
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