Barder Rod Co 8½’ #5-weight 3-piece 2-top fly rod.
In unused as-new condition. Completed in December 2012. In its hand stitched leather case.
£3,300.00
The № 31025 is one of our most popular models. We’ve been making it since the 1990s but this is only the 5th to come onto the market. This is a very rare opportunity to obtain an as-new rod.
The specification is particularly impressive. The reel seat spacer is very rare birdseye olive wood. The stainless steel snake guides, Perfection style butt and tip rings were all bronzed by me in the traditional manner, over their hard chrome plating. The case was made to measure from hand stitched vegetable tanned full grain English hide. The rod comes with a rare copy of our green fly rod catalogue (these sell for £40 each on the 2nd hand market) and all the original paperwork.
Specification.
The split cane blank was built precisely to our proprietary taper design from flame tempered Tonkin bamboo which was split and straightened by hand. The rod has a pair of identical, numbered tips.
The sections are fitted with our waterproof nickel silver ferrules, blued and lacquered and fitted with hand turned olive wood and cork stoppers.
The line guides are bronzed Snake Brand with matching butt and tip rings. The whippings are varnish-impregnated Pearsall’s Gossamer silk with ultra-fine tan silk tippings.
The comfortable cigar shaped handle is hand turned Flor grade cork. We use quarter inch cork discs we cut ourselves to ensure that only the best cork is used.
The reel seat is finely knurled blued and lacquered nickel silver with a spacer of highly figured birdseye olive wood.
The varnish, now twelve years old, is perfectly cured and flawless. It’s like a good wine, the varnish we use. You shouldn’t really touch it for a decade. Anglers are notoriously impatient. Having waited for two or three years for their rod, they want to fish with it as soon as it’s ready. A pity in a way, because it’ll be lighter, faster and more durable after a few years. The varnish shrinks and hardens considerably over time, which alters the rod’s behaviour markedly.
This rod is fully mature, unused and perfectly ready for fishing.
I can assure you with absolute confidence that it will persuade even the wariest of split cane sceptics that bamboo can be made into a fabulous fly rod. You’ll pick it up for the first time and without thinking, cast with accuracy, comfort and authority from point blank range to fifteen, even eighteen yards. There is none of the dreaded ‘tip bounce’ and crosswinds notwithstanding, it’ll put the fly where you aim. The action is contemporary, but with extra breeding and refinement.
‘Blimey Eddie!’ you’ll be saying, ‘Been spending too long in the varnishing room?’ No, not at all, and only decaffeinated tea to drink. Arrange a visit, take the rod onto the stream behind the workshop and have a cast with it. You’ll see what I mean.