The Idyl of the Split-bamboo: A Carefully Detailed Description of the Rod's Building, Prefaced by a Dissertation on the Joys of Angling, There Being Appended Some Information on the Home Cultivation of Silkworm-gut and Suggestions on Landing-nets and Other Equipment, and for the Angler's CampStewart & Kidd Company, 1920 - 276 sider |
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Side 27
... joints of a rod , the top - joint or top or as Ameri- can anglers say less explicitly , the tip - being gen- -- erally of clear bamboo . The British manufacturer has a THE JOYS OF ANGLING 27.
... joints of a rod , the top - joint or top or as Ameri- can anglers say less explicitly , the tip - being gen- -- erally of clear bamboo . The British manufacturer has a THE JOYS OF ANGLING 27.
Side 28
... joint with a bamboo top , or an ash or hickory butt with greenheart and bamboo for the other sections . But of any of these mongrels we will have naught ; as for us we pin our faith and fealty to the silk- wound hexagonal rod cunningly ...
... joint with a bamboo top , or an ash or hickory butt with greenheart and bamboo for the other sections . But of any of these mongrels we will have naught ; as for us we pin our faith and fealty to the silk- wound hexagonal rod cunningly ...
Side 29
... joints with silk , satis- fied that the subsequent coats of varnish preceded by an alcohol bath would prove effectively disin- fectant . It was during this incarceration that first we learned of the virtues of pinochle ; and the feel ...
... joints with silk , satis- fied that the subsequent coats of varnish preceded by an alcohol bath would prove effectively disin- fectant . It was during this incarceration that first we learned of the virtues of pinochle ; and the feel ...
Side 35
... toward the top . The stems or stalks ( botanically , " culms " ) are jointed , like those of other grasses , and contain within only a light , spongy pith except at the joints , or nodes , where 35 II Bamboo as a Rod Material.
... toward the top . The stems or stalks ( botanically , " culms " ) are jointed , like those of other grasses , and contain within only a light , spongy pith except at the joints , or nodes , where 35 II Bamboo as a Rod Material.
Side 36
... joints , or nodes , where they are divided by strong partitions . Upon the outside of the stalks are circumscribing ridges corresponding to the site of the partitions within . Because of these partitions , sec- tions of bamboo- stalk ...
... joints , or nodes , where they are divided by strong partitions . Upon the outside of the stalks are circumscribing ridges corresponding to the site of the partitions within . Because of these partitions , sec- tions of bamboo- stalk ...
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