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Kevan Farmer
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I've got a few rods that I am finally getting round to restoring or upgrading. In fact, if you have seen one of my other threads you'll know that I wanted some advice on removing tip rings. Well, in my search for new rod 'furniture' I decided to hunt down rod blanks. The last time I looked into this was over 20 years ago and there were plenty of blanks on the market. Now all I can find seem to be Harrison carbon blanks or very expensive cane blanks from Chapmans or a few small fly rod makers. So what happened? I know that rods have improved enormously from all those years ago but this is silly. So, does anybody know of any manufacturers - aside from those I have mentioned (I'll include Agutters because they do cane and reasonably priced too) who offer blanks? I am not really serious about buidling a new rod at this stage just shocked at the lack of this product now.