Wallop Brook Taper - Luke

Here are the measurements for 
A Wallop Brook 6'9" rod by Constable

It was measured with a mitutoyo digital micrometer over varnish
It was possible to measure the varnish in a couple of places and can
safely
Say it was a thou thick, 2 thou on the total thickness.

I measured the three faces in the same order each time,
As you will see there is a bit of variation but the rod has a nice
action 
With very little "spine"

All the measurements could be made at 5" intervals, the only one that
had an eye in the way was at 15" so took the measurement at 14"

I was re gluing the ferrules and there was a reasonable amount of
whipping round the section to build it up 

00        84    85    83
05        98    97    95      Tip section was 49 1/4"
10        118   114   116     long
14        130   124   129    
20        142   139   142
25        151   149   146
30        170   166   163
35        176   175   181
40        190   185   188
45        211   206   213
48*       212   211   212
..............................Ferrule was 15/64
51 *      234   237   234
55        243   239   241        Butt section 31 1/2"
60        243   242   239
65        260   256   257
70        275   264   270
 
Handle was 8 3/4 long plus a 1/4 winding check     

Measurements 48* and 51* was the last place that I could get a true
measurement after that the cane had been worked a bit in to the ferrules


Any questions feel free to ask if any one wants any photo's of handles /
ferrules just let me know 

I'd be interested to see the results of different peoples 
"evening up of the measurements" 

Just to see the difference between say a hexrod user and 
a pencil and paper man

( I'm sure with a bit of effort we can come up with more than one wallop
brook taper)

All the best

Luke

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