I recently finished a couple of new rods.  One is a repeat of a rod I made last year - the experimental D8013h Tri-Hex which, instead of being a standard hexagon, is more like a triangle with the corners cut off.  It still has 6 strips in it, but 3 are small and 3 are larger.  it's a more complicated rod to put together, but the geometry seems to offer some distinct advantages - more power, less weight, smoothness, and very "uni-directional".  The reelseat on this rod is spalted ash, which goes very well, i think, with the straw-colored cane.



The second is a Dickerson 8615  8ft6 6wt.  My recent trip to the Gray Reef persuaded me of the value of a rod in that length.  Got a very nice Dickerson replica up-locking reelseat from my friend Alan, full wells grip.  You don't have to make too many rods to learn that some rods come together easy and some try to fight you.  It doesn't have anything to do with how good the rod turns out in the end, either, it's just some cosmic quirk in the process.  Anyway, this rod just seemed to jump together almost on it's own.  Now it needs to be fished.

Start on the next rod will likely wait until after the Colorado Rodmakers Reunion in mid-July, to see if any taper jumps out at me among the hundreds that will be there.

Lee

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