well it wasn't pinned, but it was the most stubborn ferrule I've met yet..
Cleaned, blued, magic-markered, squinted at it through several different magnifying glasses, and generally obsessed about it for a month or so before deciding it wasn't pinned.
It took about 40 cycles of heat/quench in a pot of water filled with snow. The cane under the ferrule burned a bit before it loosened finally.
On the first heat, the four tangs all went 'spanggg..' cracked and flew off in various directions. Found three of them.
Good news is the cane was a bit blackened but sound, and I was able to match the thread colors from the spools I already had laying around.
Repaired the smashed bit on the other tip with Titebond III, an overwrap of the main break and intermediate wraps to the end of the cracks.
Flexcoat light epoxy without thinning with Danvilles white nylon A thread - the repair wrap came out bright white, the epoxy worked as a color preserver apparently..
On other threads the flexcoat seems to penetrate and behave as expected, the ferrule wrap worked fine. Odd.
Being lazy I used a furniture wood touch-up marker oak colour, to mark over the bright white and dull it down a bit.
Fished the repaired tip on the lower end of the Deckers part of the S. Platte. There aren't many fish here and they aren't very big, on the plus side sometimes you can have a whole pool all to yourself on this stretch, even on a weekend.
Rod works well with a 5wt though I think we'll be happier with a 6wt. This is the first impregnated rod I've cast, it seems significantly faster than my South Bends.
