Anyone ever used a spliced rod?

[pikergonecarpin]

I go to some local auctions and regularly pick up bulk lots of rods described as broken/damaged.

I got another lot on monday with some interesting stuff in it, namely a couple of spliced rods.

 

 

Now i've never come across a rod that isn't spigoted or overfit jointed, so i have absolutely no idea how these rods were fitted together.

One of the spliced rods looks like it's home made, the other is a Sharpes of Aberdeen split cane fly rod which is really quite nice and in good condition.

It looks like the auctioneer had maybe never seen a spliced rod either, and assumed it was broken.

 

 

This is the spliced end.

 

 

The rest if the rods are old glass/hollow glass sea rods mostly except a couple of old greenhart rods in terrible condition.

Plus an old bamboo landing net/gaff handle (picture above)

 

 

So can anyone tell me more about spliced rods? I asked google, but it just gave me hundreds of links for more modern rods with spliced tips..

 

Thanks

Paul.

Edited June 5, 2008 by pikergonecarpin

[Peter Waller]

You just lined up the joints, whipped them with bees waxed thread which ensured a flawless curve with no dead spots. I remember my granddad doing it to a rod that his father had given him as a boy!

[Dick Dastardly]

Sharpes made/sold a salmon fly rod (impregnated split cane) up untill the late 90's that had spliced joints.These "modern" spliced rods were held together using tape that Sharpes also sold.