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Andy Dear
Posted by:
Fred Duncan
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Date: December 12, 2014 02:16PM
When the rod building craft lost Andy's creative and high quality minded input, this craft lost a vital innovator. To me, a guy thats been out of rod making for some time, his abscence and loss of input is very obvious. I miss him. Andy come back.... Re: Andy Dear
Posted by:
Ken Finch
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Date: December 12, 2014 07:43PM
Andy made his money and got out. A lot of good, creative rod builders have come upon the scene since then, and many of the most creative ones have been around and are still here. Re: Andy Dear
Posted by:
mike thacker
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Date: December 12, 2014 08:29PM
Fred,
Would you care to elaborate? What is "very obvious"? I have only been doing this for a couple of years but it seems to me innovation and creativity abound. Thanks. Re: Andy Dear
Posted by:
Fred Duncan
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Date: December 13, 2014 05:57AM
Cork. Re: Andy Dear
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
(Moderator)
Date: December 13, 2014 07:57AM
Much more cork in many greater styles and types than ever before, right now.
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Posted by:
Fred Yarmolowicz
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Date: December 13, 2014 05:12PM
While I agree that Andy was a great innovator and introduced a lot of us to the wood lathe for rod building there are plenty more that push the envelope even further. Just look at Billy Vivona's work and mark Blaubaum to name a couple. Freddwhy (Rapt-Ryte) Re: Andy Dear
Posted by:
mike thacker
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Date: December 14, 2014 12:01AM
Fred Duncan Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Cork. Thanks for clearing that up. Very informative. Good Luck with your endeavors. Re: Andy Dear
Posted by:
Jerry Cook
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Date: December 14, 2014 10:35AM
I agree with Tom, much more in cork out there. However, that being said, the quality of natural cork has gone way down. What we buy today as Flor grade would not have passed as AAA grade 5 years ago. I've been very disappointed in the quality of natural and burnt burl I've been buying for some time now, regardless of where I buy it.
Jerry Cook J-Cook Fly Rods Re: Andy Dear
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
(Moderator)
Date: December 14, 2014 11:17AM
Which brings up another point - what is Flor grade? Does that "grade" mean a high or low grade of cork? That's the bigger problem. There is nothing anywhere that puts any sort of standard on "Flor" which can be as good or as bad as the seller deems it to be. Until there is a standard with some sort of numerical percent clarity or quality behind it, Flor remains a subjective term.
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Posted by:
Jerry Cook
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Date: December 14, 2014 08:21PM
You're absolutely correct Tom. There is no industry standard and therein lies the big problem. What XYZ company calls Flor grads ABC company may call "Select grade" or even AAAA or AAA. Until there is an industry standard, we will continue to have this discussion. There needs to be an industry standard, but then, who is going to determine that "standard"? Re: Andy Dear
Posted by:
Tom Kirkman
(Moderator)
Date: December 15, 2014 07:48AM
Actually there is such a standard and more consumers should insist that their dealers use it:
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