ONLY TWO Steffen Brothers rods
remain in the Fly Rod Shop
ONLY TWO Steffen Brothers rods
remain in the Fly Rod Shop
Sweetwater Fly Rods
Artistic Designs in Custom Fly Rods for Ladies & Gentlemen since 1976
Customers are my greatest asset. Thanks for being one!
SPECIAL NOTE regarding EPIC glass rod blanks
Everything is still excellent with EPIC as a whole but I found out yesterday, April 14th, that EPIC will no longer be supplying blanks in the Olive Green color . . . .
The 476's will be Amber & Salsa - The 580's will be Amber ONLY
The 686's will be Amber and Arctic
The EPIC rods I have on the site now in Olive are all I have except for a new 476 Olive
When I order more EPIC blanks in the near future, AMBER will be the only color
CONTACT: Charlie at 540.691.6290
or e-mail to sweetwaterflyrod@aol.com
for any additional Information....!!
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This gallery shows Lemke & Struble reel seats with various domestic US and other exotic wood inserts. The wood has been dried to approximately 5% moisture or less, then under almost full vacuum for up to 8 hours, remove as much air from the wood as possible. Then, at atmospheric pressure with the vacuum pot open, allow the wood to absorb the resins for at least 36 hours and up to 72 depending on how open-grained or porous the wood is. The inserts are then "baked" to at least 190°F to cure the resins (stabilized) and then cleaned-up and staged for use in making beautiful fly rods as you have seen on this site. The exotic woods that by nature contain natural oils do not get stabilized with this vacuum process. All domestic US woods are stabilized.
NOTE: Select the large images to see the variety of wood for the insert