These are the detailed pages designed to accompany items on show at Fly Fest Scotland 2018.
Edgar Sealey, Redditch “Glane”
Edgar Sealey seem to have been one of the Redditch firms that weathered the storms of the 60’s, although it was not to last as the company was eventually absorbed into the Dunlop group. If the Fish Hawk was the alst evidence of cane rod making, then in some ways the "Glane" was the sign of things to come. The name is a conflation of the words "glass" and "cane" and, although it has brass ferrules and a conventional profile, this rod is made of glass fibre, the nest "big thing" in rod making.
It is interesting to consider though, that glass and, subsequently, carbon fibre are not as "new" as you might think. Both media rely on a matrix of fibres embedded in and consolidated by a resin base. Bamboo consists of a matrix of plant fibres, the so called "power fibres", held together and consolidated in a thermo-plastic (softened-when-warm) base composed of something called Pectin. This is the stuff that gives apple peel its strength and thickens any kind of jam...
It is interesting to consider though, that glass and, subsequently, carbon fibre are not as "new" as you might think. Both media rely on a matrix of fibres embedded in and consolidated by a resin base. Bamboo consists of a matrix of plant fibres, the so called "power fibres", held together and consolidated in a thermo-plastic (softened-when-warm) base composed of something called Pectin. This is the stuff that gives apple peel its strength and thickens any kind of jam...