Before you Order

Coating:

     Urushi is the only coating material we are using on our rod blanks, Urushi was made from lacquer tree, proplrin Asian had been using this material coating various itmes in their life for thousands of years, mostly are used on wooden tableware, there are several papers shows that urushi tableware will make virus ands bacteria last on the surface die in several hours, its the most suitable and non-toxic coating material for human.

Reference: https://urushiis.com/en/about/

     There are many decorating technique of Urushi developed in this long history, I'm trying to make them on all types of gly rod and there are already some techniques we can see in the website.

About Maki-e: https://japanobjects.com/features/guide-to-masterpieces-of-japanese-lacquer

About Kawari-nuri: https:https://www.suzanneross.art/other-techniques

Joints:

      We provide two type of joints on Bamboo rods, "Hatori joint" and splice joint, splice joint only offers in Spey rods, and Hatori joint offers in all of the bamboos.

Joint Decoration:

Grip:

     Here in Hatori Rod I only use hand picked top flor grade on every rod, once you hold it you'll know what's different between the top flor and normal ones. 

Wood Spacers:

      There are several kinds of wood we offer as reel seats in the shop, we have 5 kinds of wood now offering as an option for you to choose in the shop, and all of these wood spacers are offering could only be burl, down below is the introduction.

*There will be more kinds of wood comes out in  the future.

1. Taiwan Incense -cedar: Unlike Incense-cedar in the U.S, Taiwan Incense-cedar is semi-hard wood in Taiwan, but there is no Janka hardness test for Taiwan Incense-cedar, so here now we can only compare it to America Tncense-cedar by the dried density, America Incense-cedar density is around 0.385, Taiwan Incense-cedar density is around 0.69,  the density is near to hard maple.
2. Taiwan Acacia: Taiwan-Acacia is a common tree in Taiwan, Janka hardness test result is around 1750, density is around 1.01 g/cm3, people in Taiwan also called it "Taiwan Ebony", so it's a kind of wood that difficult to finds burl on it, base on my experiment i found it is very durable as a reel seat.
3. Tiger Maple
4. Rosewood