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    How Did Gordon Grant Combine Music and Fly Fishing in His Innovative Rod Design?

    Thanks Guys, I have read the story of Harrison and his sea going clocks made of wood and only wood, I believe one is still running in the museum in London, and on that NOTE there is a hand written letter on what is believed to be a stradivarius violin repaired and improved along side his own...
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    How Did Gordon Grant Combine Music and Fly Fishing in His Innovative Rod Design?

    The quotes are from his own personal papers that I have, he also made fiddles and was head of the Strathspey reel society for 40 years, he was more interested in vibration and was applying it to musical instruments until his death in 1942. I would at some point like to make a Greenheart fly rod...
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    How Did Gordon Grant Combine Music and Fly Fishing in His Innovative Rod Design?

    Thanks UltrafastPED, Alexander Grant when casting in 1896 did not shoot line like all morning fly casting, he lifted all the line and cast it without drawing in any line. Here is another Quote, I should say he also corresponded with Albert Einstein, he could work out the taper of a fly rod and...
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    How Did Gordon Grant Combine Music and Fly Fishing in His Innovative Rod Design?

    Hi All, I am working on a book regarding a famous fly fisherman that invented and made a fly rod out of wood more than 100yrs ago that cast a distance we still cannot match today, he was also a great violin maker/player and tuned his rod as he would tune his violin. Now bearing in mind a fly...
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