Interesting that you should post this.
Boron is stiffer and better than carbon, hence further away from noodly glass or kevlar
Okay, so why are more companies not using this? Can't be exclusive to Winston only, can it??
Mario Geldenhuys
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Interesting that you should post this.
Boron is stiffer and better than carbon, hence further away from noodly glass or kevlar
Mario Geldenhuys
Smallstream fanatic, plus I do some other things that I can't tell you about
"All the tips or magical insights in the world can't replace devotion, dedication, commitment, and gumption - and there is not secret in that" - Glenn Brackett
In Ernie Schweibert's "Trout" he devotes a chapter to discussing material selection for fly-rods. The pro's and con's of cane, glass, carbon and boron are discussed.
This was in 1980! 34 years ago.
The conclusions are self evident, mostly, but boron was touted as the wonder material of the future.
Price is it's downfall.
Volume production of carbon fibre has brought it's price down significantly during the last 30 years. (Glass has always been cheap - witness bakkie canopies, swimming pools, roof insulation etc) but boron is still classed as an exotic material (as carbon was in the 1980's).
Would love to see the stuff become mainstream.
Mario Geldenhuys
Smallstream fanatic, plus I do some other things that I can't tell you about
"All the tips or magical insights in the world can't replace devotion, dedication, commitment, and gumption - and there is not secret in that" - Glenn Brackett
I guess it's down to volume production Mario.
Not sure why boron never became more mainstream.
I do'nt think you can go to a supplier like AMT and buy boron cloth though.
Maybe it's technical advantages do'nt outweigh price penalty?
In the video the rod shown is a combination of carbon and boron. Even if the boron content is 1% they can claim "boron reinforcement etc"
Graphite is carbon fibre Chris, just another term for the same thing. As I posted elsewhere, 1 strand of boron included in the weave enables them to advertise "boron graphite etc" A lot of the early "cheapy" rods were actually mainly glass with about 10% graphite. They were typically "Graphite reinforced"
Boron has been used since the 70's in various applications
Mario
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