Bulldog ... excellent for sharing that. I traded emails with Dennis last week about this. The builds look great.

The one I saw for sale is built on a Kettle Creek blank from Phil B.

Dennis is a very nice guy. I've purchased one of his tapers (blank) from him. I'll probably do it again too.

Hey Dennis,
Thanks for joining. I love your work.


Regards,
Ron

His fine tips are in a class by themselves.

Dennis, your glass rod is beautiful - classic good looks - al dente.
You didn't even have to reinvent anything (inside joke about marketing glass)

That's a purdy one their Derald.

due to the lack of intertest in my first offering at a price point 50.00 to 100.00 lower than others in the field i have decided to not go forward with adding fiberglass to my lineup of bamboo rods.I was hoping it would be profitable adventure.Unfortunatly there seems to be no interest. i want to thanks those of you that commented here and tried to help make it a success. Dennis

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Thirteen days? Not sure what one can conclude from a sub-fortnight period except maybe that fiberglass fly rods aren't Taylor Swift tickets.

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It seems i need to find an american blank maker in order to crack this egg.I thought i had found a good set of tapers with construction that seemed to me to be fine.Being new to glass i didnt know there was such a bias.I will take my time and find a more suitable blank to work with. I wonder if taylor swift started out this way

I think you're right, there are many fine products being manufactured in Asia and it's beyond question that the Chinese are quite capable of making excellent products. Americans decided decades ago that businesses based here should provide basic rights to their employees, safe working conditions, a living wage etc. The money you save when you do business with some Asian manufacturers is saved because those companies don't treat their employees with the same respect most American manufacturers do. As we've seen so many jobs disappear here and seen the havoc those lost jobs have played with our economy many Americans are rethinking the long term outcome of saving a few dollars in the short term.
There is a bias here but the reasons for the bias are both ethical and practical. If I were trying to woo buyers from a thoughtful community such as we have on this board, I would give careful thought to the issues involved and how I would want my business standards perceived.

some here are saying the riffle blanks i used were from China.I was under the impression they were made in south korea.They`re standard of living for workers and working conditions i would think are more closer to japan than china.I am a progressive with a father who spent all my formative years as a teamster in the union.I look at the way things are run today in the USA and remember how it was to be a proud blue collar worker,making a decent living ,taking care of a family on one persons wages.Everything has changed over the last 40yrs ... today i build bamboo rods in the USA.The cane comes from China,the silk from Asia, and the cork from Portugal.I want to build my business so i can take care of myself so my family or gov. doesnt have to.I will look for and find a way to offer something in glass that i am proud to sell with my name on it.It may be beyond my means to build my own blanks on my own mandrels. Hopefully as i learn more, i will find something that will peak peoples interest.

Such is life in our global economy, in this Information Age, where everything-- even the seemingly "old-timey" vocation of building and selling fishing rods is subject to hyper-scrutiny by well-informed consumers who expect -- and rightfully so, integrity, quality, and customer service. Good luck to you Dennis, you seem to already have an established name among bamboo so you have that going for you.