Alan Kube stops short of calling it a religious experience. But in a heartbeat, by the waters of the South Platte River near Deckers, his life was forever changed. “I could feel what the rod was ...

has built 245 such rods since he learned how to construct a split-cane rod in 1985 from strips of Tonkin bamboo imported from China. Each is lovingly built by hand and signed. He sells to ...

Clark runs the Spinoza Rod Company with his stepfather, Marc Aroner, who has been crafting bamboo rods out of hard-to-find Tonkin cane since the early ’70s.

Donahe said he had no recipe, and the product arose out of his own curiosity for the material, specifically Tonkin cane, which is grown in China and he acquires via a Seattle importer.

It was not Calcutta cane, they knew, but something more elegant — bamboo from the Gulf of Tonkin. The British found the hot new material, but Americans were the innovators. The Furman rod is the ...

All students of fly fishing will agree that Tonkin bamboo was the superior material for building a classic fly rod, and most will concur that Tonkin bamboo was correctly named: Arundaria amabilis ...

THIS is the story, as the author admits, of the worm in the bud: the age-old battle between perfectionism and economics. On the one hand a clique of craftsmen, handing down through small workshops ...

More: New shop owners have big plans New gourmet grocery store owners have big plans for Hot Springs business Calloway said he receives Tonkin cane bamboo from a specific region in China.