High School Wood Shop Students Make Bamboo Fly Rods

[troutbert]

What a great idea!

The students can learn a lot, end up with a really nice item, and go fishing with it.

https://www.basd.net/Page/13647

 

[afishinado]

troutbert wrote:
What a great idea!

The students can learn a lot, end up with a really nice item, and go fishing with it.

https://www.basd.net/Page/13647

^ Very nice idea! I would have been all over that if it were offered to me in school. And in Bellefonte, it's a no brainer.....

 

[poopdeck]

I like it. Beats the three legged stool and paper roll note taker thing I built in wood shop. One thing though, isn't Tonkin bamboo from china? I guess it could be farmed in Washington state though.

 

[PennKev]

poopdeck wrote:
One thing though, isn't Tonkin bamboo from china? I guess it could be farmed in Washington state though.

Washington could be the location of the importer.

At any rate, I hope they complete their rods. I had seriously considered trying to build a cane fly rod in my high school shop class and it was way beyond the technical capabilities of our wood shop.

 

[redietz]

What a great idea!

 

[Dave_W]

Cool. Thanks for the link.

It's reassuring to see that schools still have woodshop and that students are engaged and doing creative things with their hands and physical tools.

 

[shakey]

fantastic!!