Bryan Baron 2
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Ok This is my first proper review and i am open to positive critique. So lets have it.
Bad move i think. I shall get me tin hat out.
Bad move i think. I shall get me tin hat out.
The Lost World Of Mr. Hardy DVD
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John McLaren
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Sound review Bryan, certainly makes me want to see it - but at 25 quidI will probably wait until it turns up a lot cheaper!!
Bryan Baron 2
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Trust me mate it's well worth it have watched it 3 times already.
Mark Wintle
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Excellent review, Bryan.
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Cakey
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blimey that ones shot up
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Paul (Brummie) Williams
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Bryan......i didn't know the bit about Richard Walker and the 25% carbon content......perhaps he was right?
My main gripe with Modern dayHardy, is how can they justify the price of todays rods.....IF, as i believe,they are made in the far East?
In RW's day they were truely inovative and the price they commanded was relavant....is it now?
My main gripe with Modern dayHardy, is how can they justify the price of todays rods.....IF, as i believe,they are made in the far East?
In RW's day they were truely inovative and the price they commanded was relavant....is it now?
Bryan,
Damn good review of an untypical 'fishing' video.
You have certainly encouraged me to get a copy.
Damn good review of an untypical 'fishing' video.
You have certainly encouraged me to get a copy.
Bryan Baron 2
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Thanks for the kind words evrybody. Will have another go soon at something else.
Kevin Perkins
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Great DVD review, Bryan. And that coming from someone who knows exactly how <u>not</u> to do reviews.....!
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Wolfman Woody
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I agree with what he above me said, Bryan! /forum/smilies/i_dont_know_smiley.gif
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)
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Good review Bryan, this is something I will order.
slime monster
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very good bryan,well done .
Fred Blake
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I would give this film 11/10 - in fact, despite the somewhat specialised 'minority interest' of the subject matter, it is so well producedit could even be shown on terrestrial TV. Like the Hardy tackle it discusses, the price isindeed irrelevant.
It is also, as Bryan says, a very poignant reminder of how easy it is to lose (or destroy) something of immense value, as the new management at Hardy appear to have done. Now it is just another 'volume business' outsourcing much of its product from other manufacturers (mostly overseas) and trading on the Hardy name with allits associations.
Even for those who do not and have never owned a single piece of Hardy tackle it is worth watching; for the rest of us who hold British-madeHardy tacklein high regard - especially those who remember the Pall Mall shop -well, you'll have to be a cold and emotionless individual not to be moved by it.
It is also, as Bryan says, a very poignant reminder of how easy it is to lose (or destroy) something of immense value, as the new management at Hardy appear to have done. Now it is just another 'volume business' outsourcing much of its product from other manufacturers (mostly overseas) and trading on the Hardy name with allits associations.
Even for those who do not and have never owned a single piece of Hardy tackle it is worth watching; for the rest of us who hold British-madeHardy tacklein high regard - especially those who remember the Pall Mall shop -well, you'll have to be a cold and emotionless individual not to be moved by it.
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)
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Walker and Carbon Fibre.
About 1978, I recieved a letter from **** Walker on several subjects. One of them commenting on how I had smashed a carbon fly rod made from an American Fenwick blank. I must say that I have forgotten much of what was in the letter as it is a long time ago but Walker went on to say in various articles to the angling press how carbon fibre could be easily broken if waved around vigourously in the air with no casting load.
He certainly advocated putting a percentage of glass fibre in a blank to preventit from being so brittle.
But in later years, high carbon blanks were developed that were able to take more abuse. So Walker was perhaps wrong after all.
About 1978, I recieved a letter from **** Walker on several subjects. One of them commenting on how I had smashed a carbon fly rod made from an American Fenwick blank. I must say that I have forgotten much of what was in the letter as it is a long time ago but Walker went on to say in various articles to the angling press how carbon fibre could be easily broken if waved around vigourously in the air with no casting load.
He certainly advocated putting a percentage of glass fibre in a blank to preventit from being so brittle.
But in later years, high carbon blanks were developed that were able to take more abuse. So Walker was perhaps wrong after all.
Bryan Baron 2
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Thanks for all the positive coments and for thouse that have watched the DVD watch it again as you will not see such a well made program again.