THE FISHING WITH SINKERS DIARIES

Experiments with metal shafts went via many phases. In 1924 the Union Components Company of Torrington, Connecticut, U.S., drew a seamless shaft of higher-carbon steel which could be warmth-handled and tempered. It had been accepted via the R&A in 1929 and considerably changed hickory in the early 1930s. While in the 1960s aluminum shafts experienc