New CD is Available, Now!
Finally, the first of the final promised CDs featuring the last few years of RodMaker is available. The Volume 10-12 CD includes all issues as found in Volumes 10, 11 and 12. They are faithful electronic reproductions of the hard copy issues and include a total of 18 individual issues (3 years). Hard copy versions…
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Several years back I released the first 9 volumes of RodMaker on CD. It has been a tremendous hit and allows would-be readers to obtain bulk copies of this magazine at price which is less than the same in hard copy version, and in what many feel is a more convenient form for them. …
Read MoreNew Issue Mails Today
The Volume 17 #2 issue of RodMaker mails today. Most subscribers will receive it around the 3rd to 4th week of this month. Enjoy.
Read MorePeanut Butter and Chocolate
The Origin of Foam Core, Carbon Skinned Fishing Rod Grips How many of you are old enough to remember the old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup advertisement? The one where some guy eating a chocolate bar walks around a corner and bumps into a guy who’s finger scooping peanut butter out of a jar. They look…
Read MoreMore Decals Arrive
Free decals featuring the International Symbol for Custom Rod Building are back in stock. I had run out a couple weeks ago so I hadn’t been able to fill the SASE requests that came in during that period. However, I’ll take care of those tomorrow and most guys will have theirs by end of the…
Read MoreCompensation
Not long after I hosted the very first International Custom Rod Building Exposition, I rocked the rod building world by paying my seminar presenters. This had never been done. Some competitors were outraged at this dastardly act. They said that by paying seminar presenters I was going to ruin the aspect of rod builders being…
Read MoreNew Issue Mails August 1st
Another new issue of RodMaker is at the printer now. It will mail on time, as usual, on August 1st. Subscribers should see it around the 3rd to 4th week of August. If you are due for renewal, you’ll want to renew now so you don’t miss the August 1 mailing. Check your mailing label…
Read MoreDiversions
Most rod builders have interests in addition to custom rod building. I’ve always had too many. There just hasn’t been enough hours in the day to get around to all the various things I’ve found interesting and been involved in. I suspect most rod builders, obviously having a creative bent, have the same trouble. …
Read MoreNew Issue Mailed
RodMaker Volume 16 #3 is in the mail now. Most subscribers will receive it during the 3rd and 4th weeks of June. Enjoy.
Read MoreLawsuit Settled
Ladies and Gentlemen: In June of 2008, the custom rod builders guild filed a false criminal complaint against me for “Repeated Use of Electronic Mail for Harassment.” In October of 2008, having carefully reviewed the evidence, the District Attorney Office dismissed the complaint against me with a “No Crime Charged” notation. Because the club had…
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