THE FISHING WITH SINKERS DIARIES

{Experiments with metal shafts went via various phases. In 1924 the Union Hardware Firm of Torrington, Connecticut, U.S., drew a seamless shaft of superior-carbon steel that would be warmth-handled and tempered. It had been approved with the R&A in 1929 and significantly replaced hickory inside the early 1930s. During the 1960s aluminum shafts expe