I've been lurking around this site for a few weeks. Great to see so many names from the late 90s in Grayrock, and the old WUSTL listserve (is that still running?). Life's patterns are allowing more time for rodmaking again...and my God, does it feel good!! My girls are getting old enough to allow time, the ever-fetching Mrs. Hoffhines no longer needs to share basement time for the flute studio...and the real estate appraisal industry is on its knees! So it's back to advancing the beloved trombone, and rods. My production had dwindled to a trickle in recent years (2-4 rods per year-max) and repairs for local flyshops, but I've come up with a few new (okay, "borrowed" classics) tapers, and a renewed fire in the (bigger, alas) belly. I'm really lovin' seeing the familar names!
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Posts: 286 02/13/2010 12:26 |
I keep looking lustfully at your 7ft 6in 3/1 4wt on the rack at Eric's...
Tight Lines! Alistair
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Posts: 568 02/13/2010 21:02 |
Welcome, Rob!
We haven't "met," but I know you via a taper you posted, I think in the Planing Form a good time back. It was a PY Encampment, and it was, I think, the 3rd or 4th rod I made, selected largely because I visited Saratoga and the Encampment as a kid, although I didn't fish much back then. Quite the cannon of a rod. One that I never totally got the hang of, but one that strongly pleased a PY aficionado I know. Glad you'll be part of the forum. Lee |
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Posts: 12 02/13/2010 21:27 |
Hi Lee,
Well, we'll hafta meet on some fine water sometime eh? Yeah, the Boat Rod/Encampment. I had an original that had been poorly rewrapped/refinished with the reelseat turned into an uplock. I picked it up relatively cheap and put it back together with the help of Todd Young selling a Detroit downlock seat and info as to correct silk colors. The serial number and signature were long gone too, but there was the "51/2" inked above the ferrules, a tattered burgundy bag and that undeniable flaming. Wish I still had it for three reasons. First, one should never sell classic flyrods (or trombones) unless they simply suck...you'll have a hole in your heart forever. Second, I could do a better job putting it right nowadays. Last, and this is why I'm glad you replied, I'm not so sure I accurately miced the rod. I tried to make one about 2 years ago, and it seemed more brutal, and apt to throw humps in the line. I later made a para 15 heavy tip for it, which is almost identical from about 15" or 20" down to the ferrule, and that helped. It would make sense that this taper could be the heavy P15 tip with a more rigid butt to enable line pickups from a moving boat etc. (my heretical gripe of the PHY tapers is the line pickup is hard to get used to). If I thought someone would ever want a 8' 7wt cue stick, I'd try to figure it out to make a good rod. I hope to compare my numbers to someone else's measurements someday..how did yours turn out casting-wise? |
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Posts: 2457 02/13/2010 22:37 Bamboo preacher |
Welcome Rob,
Good to see your name pop up. Hope things continue to go your way. Harry |
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Posts: 654 02/14/2010 10:42 |
Hey, Rob... you had to bring up GrayRock, didn't ya... I think the last time I was there, I had an ice chest that looked like a little red wagon, full of Guiness, and... well, never mind, the rest of the week was kind of like the 70's as far as the way my brain filed them away... DEEPLY!!!
Great to see you back online. Those that know Rob; 'nuf said... Those that don't; when he talks, listen!!! Great guy and knows his stuff! Welcome back, Rob. Bob PS: ALL of our bellies are a little bigger!  |
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Posts: 4169 02/14/2010 11:18 Moderator |
Rob;
I'm the PHY "enthusiast" that purchased the #3 rod from Lee. Lee had brought a series of rods that had PHY based tapers to the Southern Rod Makers gathering including the Encampment. While the other rods were nice, they did not cast like true PHY's for me... until I picked up the Encampment. The rod casts just like a "big brother" to my PHY Para 15... there was no denying the PHY heritage in that rod. Lee sold the rod to me, but only on the condition that he could clean it up a bit, and he would check and see if he had any material left from the culm that the rod came from. When he sent me the rod he also forwarded all of the dimentions and the processes that he used to build it... lo and behold, he had duplicated much of Paul's original process, including the semi-impregnation (using Mike Brook's old sauce formula), and a piece of pre-embargo cane. My only complaint was that he didn't have any of the original cane remaining... so I'm religated to having a 1 tip rod. One way or another, that rod is going to Calgary with me when the wife and I spend a week with "Dutchie" on the Bow and other waters. Lee is one of the very few (in my experience) that has managed to build a true PHY "clone". This rod feels exactly like a PHY, and I'm just very fortunate to be able to own the rod... needless to say... I love it. Ralph |
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Posts: 53 02/15/2010 21:54 |
Rob,
I read on this site almost every evening if not sneaking in throughout the day as well  , trying to soak in all the knowledge. I just love this stuff...was made to do it I think! This and well..... something you posted a couple of times really caught my eye! I take it that you are a fellow trombone player! I am a young guy but have been playing most of my life (30 years now) and it is a pretty important part of life for me as well, with my favorite playing being jazz combo stuff and brass quintet work with these days finding me playing these days mostly in my church up high on my LT16M ala Pankow of our beloved "Chicago". Where do you play up there in Chicago? I used to study with someone from Chicago who used to have a big band up there in the 80s named Roger Pemberton (a great sax player and great guy to boot).As far as classic 'Bones go, if you ever hear of a nice Mt.Vernon 16 with a good slide let me know  !Gregg Osland |
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RWHoffhines |
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Posts: 23 02/15/2010 23:22 |
Great to hear another man of the slide is on the forum here! I am an orchestral-type player, with chamber music (brass 5tet) tossed in. My main groups are The Millar Brass Ensemble, Chicago Sinfonietta, Joffrey Ballet Orchestra and whatever comes my way. So I don't get much of a chance to let 'er swing, apart from the odd big band 3rd trombone gig! I too am a great admirer of James Pankow, and if you can play his licks, ya gotta be a smokin' player! So my stuff is all .547 bore (apart from the alto), I play a 42B and 88H depending on who I am playing with, but I do have a sweet 1962 78H .522 bore. I kind of knew Roger back from my day gig at The Saxophone Shop, where he was a patron. My scant Jazz playing was growing up in central Ohio, but my dad was a decent dixielander, and I still marvel at Jack Tegarden et. al. Also go for whatever Frank Rosolino I can find, and the Carl Fontana stuff with the Kenton Band (probably 'cause Kenton is almost orchestral...)
Where are you located now? Hopefully near trout water! |
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Posts: 54 02/16/2010 01:19 |
Neat stuff! I had a funny feeling that you might have known Roger! I last saw Roger probably 8 years ago or so and he was still doing R&D sax work for Conn/Selmer. What a lyrical player he was. Small world this is, isn't it?! I now live in Atlanta, GA...south Atlanta actually in McDonough. Trout fishing is close though (within an hour to fish, and roughly 2 hours to fish and nature as well). I travel a fair amount in my day job (environmental remediation - USEPA contractor) so I am usually driving by trout with gear in the car ready to go if time and water permits ; ). I have a recently completed 6611 to introduce to a trout anbd am starting on my first 3 pc rod. I am thinking of either a 761510, 801510 or 801611 (or 801610 if I can find/figure that out). Currently leaning towards maybe the 761510 and then maybe an 8 footer.
I really am very fond of any kind of music that calls for precision and playing in accord and have extreme appreciation for a player such as yourself that specializes in orchestral work and been diligent to it and the mental and phsyical (chops) demands it places upon you. I listened to the short recording from one of your other posts (Miller Brass Ensemble)... what a tight sounding group!!! Great intonation as well, of course! It is awesome to be immersed in with great players all around you where the envelope can really be pushed! Jazz improvisation has always held a special place in my heart due to the nature of the spontaneous composition and the raw and unfettered creativity it represents as well as the communication between the players that most listeners never realize is even taking place while they are hearing the music. I have not conquered it... mastering improv has been my personal 8 pound brown caught on a parachute Adams on a sunny day...just that - ellusive! There is an outside chance my family might have ot move ot Chicago for my wife's job (ITW in Glennview), and if so it is nice to know there is a maker in Chicago and a trombone player to boot... I imagine there must be quite a few makers inthe Windy City? Gregg |
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