Custom glass and cane builder, Matt Leiderman, sent along a few photographs of a matched set of Steffen Brothers builds that he recently completed.
These photographs are a good example of Matt's work in creating one of a kind fly rods for his clients.
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Matt wrote... "Months ago, I was contacted by a Fiberglass Flyrodders friend about working on a few rods for him. He supplied a variety of basic components and I was simply asked to piece together a few rods. The blanks are both four piece Steffen Brothers. The cigar gripped rod is an 8' 3/4 weight and the Ritz gripped rod is Mark's new 8' 4/5 weight blank. Both feature bubinga Lemke seats and bronzed components throughout. A fairly simple build but I set out to make a matched set that were close but not exact. As many glass fishers know, Mark's 8' 3/4 weight is a modern classic but the new 4/5 weight fly rods are a nice addition to his blank series. It is a bit more full flexing and has some reserve power in the lower sections. On paper, the 8' 4/5 weight may look similar to the 3/4 weight but they are two totally different fly rods."
For more information and photographs of Matt's work check out the Leiderman Rods website.
These photographs are a good example of Matt's work in creating one of a kind fly rods for his clients.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Matt wrote... "Months ago, I was contacted by a Fiberglass Flyrodders friend about working on a few rods for him. He supplied a variety of basic components and I was simply asked to piece together a few rods. The blanks are both four piece Steffen Brothers. The cigar gripped rod is an 8' 3/4 weight and the Ritz gripped rod is Mark's new 8' 4/5 weight blank. Both feature bubinga Lemke seats and bronzed components throughout. A fairly simple build but I set out to make a matched set that were close but not exact. As many glass fishers know, Mark's 8' 3/4 weight is a modern classic but the new 4/5 weight fly rods are a nice addition to his blank series. It is a bit more full flexing and has some reserve power in the lower sections. On paper, the 8' 4/5 weight may look similar to the 3/4 weight but they are two totally different fly rods."
For more information and photographs of Matt's work check out the Leiderman Rods website.
Those rods are sweet.
ReplyDeleteTo bad that I get a black screen on my iPad. I'd have liked to see those rods!
ReplyDeleteJory...Matt Leiderman is quite a builder...though from what I've seen on your blog you are as well.
ReplyDeleteJJP...sorry about that. Flickr slideshows don't play well with the iPad. I hope that they do at some point soon.