Upcoming Shop Closures
Head’s Up…The Gooding kids have requested a backpacking trip in August. Tentatively we’ll be closed August 25th – September 4th. If you need custom parts (agate strippers, blued components, etc.) during this time, please order by August 1st for certain delivery before the closure; for non-custom parts (ferrules, snakes, silks, etc.) you can safely order up through August 23rd. Thanks! - Russ
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Hello Rodmakers & Restorationists!
Welcome to the home of Golden Witch – your custom rodmakers’ supply house since 1998. We specialize in classic components for bamboo, fiberglass and graphite fly rods. Look around!Featured Products
The Latest Ramblings
Making Bamboo Chopsticks
Chopsticks. Love bamboo & Asian cuisine? You can craft hexagonal bamboo chopsticks. For novice rodmakers, they represent a good way to practice setting up and using a planing form on something arguably less important (and intimidating) than a first set of rod blanks.For every maker, chopsticks represent an incredibly useful way of productively using scrap bamboo from the rodmaking process. And what a teaching tool, too,
Bamboo Rodmaking for Beginners
In 1997 or so, Frank Armbruster of Colorado Bootstrap published a Free Report on the basics of how to build a bamboo fly rod. He advertised it in the classifieds of a popular national fishing rag for the price of one SASE and a couple of unused stamps. Our own Matt West responded to that ad, and that was the first day of the rest of his life.
The Latest News
GW Ain’t Just for Bamboo
Cameron Mortenson, over at The Fiberglass Manifesto, has featured GW in a blog post. Killer. Thanks, Cameron!
Take a Peak at The Planing Form to Read About Bamboo
Peak Bamboo is in The Planing Form, Issue #161 October/September 2016.
Peak Bamboo is in Angling International
Peak Bamboo is in the October 2016 Angling International magazine. Read about us on page 26 of the online issue!
angling-international.com/virtual-magazine/october-2016-issue-105/
The Planing Form Put a Hex on the News
Kirk recently did a review of our Hex products in The Planing Form, Issue #160 July/August 2016.