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Title: Not for a beginner, but a nice book.
Review: I do agree with others that this is a beautiful book with lots of good color photos. But I believe a how-to book should be passed through not only the hands of experts for review, but also to beginners. It's too easy to assume terms and products are well known and do not need to be defined and that's the one flaw in this book. For example on thread winding, what kind of thread? (Cotton, polyester, nylon, rayon, silk, etc.) What size? Does it matter or will anything work?There was also a chapter on the manufacture of graphite blanks in a factory setting, which added little helpful information to a rod builder, although it was interesting. The space would have been better used to define more terms and to pull back and show the finished products. Almost all of the photos were very close up. (Again - that's great, but just a few overviews would have been beneficial!)
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