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1st carbon graphite rod?
Posted by: Danny Wood (---.62.195.76.144.clients.your-server.de)
Date: January 25, 2023 03:24PM

Does anybody here know who or what company made the first carbon graphite rods and what year it was? Thx.

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Re: 1st carbon graphite rod?
Posted by: Tom Kirkman (Moderator)
Date: January 25, 2023 03:32PM

It would have been somewhere around 1973 or 1974. I'd guess either Fenwick or Lamiglas. Don Green was certainly working with carbon at Fenwick in the early 1970's.

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Re: 1st carbon graphite rod?
Posted by: Norman Miller (Moderator)
Date: January 25, 2023 06:26PM

Fenwick 1973.
Norm

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Re: 1st carbon graphite rod?
Posted by: Robert A. Guist (---.res6.spectrum.com)
Date: January 25, 2023 06:32PM

Hello All.

Hi Norm good catch!

I found this on the computer:

July 9, 2022 by Cristopher Gilmore Carbon Fiber – Along with Fenwick, the company that generally gets credit for building the first graphite-composite fishing rod in 1973, Lamiglas, Shakespeare and Garcia-Conolon were among the pioneers that brought hollow graphite-composite rods to the market in the early ’70s.

Tight Wraps & Tighter Lines.

Bob,

New Bern, NC.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/2023 06:38PM by Robert A. Guist.

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