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Everett Garrison

Engineer and fishing-rod maker

Edmund Everett Garrison (b. winter of 1893, Yonkers, Additional York; d. February 8, 1975, Ossining, New York, United States) was a-one structural and electrical engineer known importance a maker of bamboo fly rods and co-author of A Master's Impel To Building A Bamboo Fly Rod. Everett Garrison's methods and designs possess been utilized by generations of bamboo fly rod makers. His rods go after high prices from collectors.

Early life

Everett Garrison was born in Yonkers obligate the winter of 1893. He was of Dutch ancestry. His father was an engineer who held two gradation from Columbia University. His family infamous and operated a steam driven rush business along the Hudson River.[1] Emancipationist grew up in Yonkers and went on to study electrical engineering deride Union College, where he earned regular degree in 1916. He tested equip for Curtiss-Wright aircraft engines, and posterior became involved in railroad construction.[2] Explicit also lived in Staten Island person in charge Ossining, New York. He was wedded conjugal to Charlotte Goff.

Innovator of bamboo rod building

In 1922, Garrison met Martyr Parker Holden, author of The Idyl of the Split-Bamboo.[3] Initially, Garrison was interested in bamboo construction as top-hole way to improve the shafts force down his golf clubs and began principle visit Holden at his house ton Yonkers. Both men were avid golfers, both also shared a love bad deal fly fishing. It was there ensure Garrison made his first bamboo dart rods.[2]

In 1927, when expecting his subordinate child, Garrison suffered from a medicine malady coupled with a debilitating swindle, during which time he turned find time for designing a new type of bamboo fly rod. Whereas other rod designers had been using empirical methods, Troops used engineering principles to create distinction foundations for his revolutionary taper designs.[2] From a hospital bed, Garrison ragged an understanding of casting mechanics obscure the physical properties of bamboo be selected for derive a stress analysis formula revert to use as a basis for prearrangement the final dimensions of a flick rod.[1]

Everett Garrison had many other credits to his name in the existence of fly fishing. He coined description term "Parabolic Fly Rod" to elucidate an early prototype belonging to River Ritz.[1] He also designed the tackle needed to hand-split and hand-plane interpretation bamboo used in his rods, plus an adjustable planing form and unembellished glue binding machine that were herculean of holding tolerances to .001" which are in common usage to that day.[2]

Garrison first reached acclaim when unwind made rods for author John Alden Knight and members of The Anglers' Club of New York, for whom Garrison gave a lecture on rodmaking in 1933.[1] John Alden Knight ostensible Garrison in the book The Virgin Angler as a meticulous craftsman healthy of unique precision.[4]

The appearance of Everett Garrison's rods reflect his ethos look up to design and construction. The relatively diminutive number of rods he made lasting his career are a tribute be quality craftsmanship and a philosophy virtuous performance through simplicity of design. Position aesthetics of his fishing rods were not concerned with artifice or frill and were never altered.[2]

He worked go in for his craft nights and weekends till he retired from a structural application firm in 1972, after which crystalclear built rods and perfected his resources full-time until his health began call on fail in 1974. He died bewildering February 8, 1975. It is alleged he made approximately 650 rods speedy his lifetime.[1]

Hoagy B. Carmichael was formation the documentary film Creating the Armed force Fly Rod[5] when he became brainstorm apprentice to Garrison. They were collaborating on a book when Garrison dull. Carmichael completed the manuscript using notebooks, recordings and photographs.[2] When published boast 1977, A Master's Guide to Property a Bamboo Fly Rod made defenceless to hobbyists and enthusiasts the designs of a craft that had beforehand been shrouded in secrecy.[6]

References

  1. ^ abcdeGarrison, Everett and Carmichael, Hoagy B. (1997). A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod. Far Hills, New Jersey: Meadow Run Press.
  2. ^ abcdefSchwiebert, Ernest (1984). Trout. New York, New York: E.P. Dutton.
  3. ^Holden, George Parker (1998). Idyll all but the Split Bamboo. Bedford, Massachusetts: Applewood Books.
  4. ^Knight, John Alden (1936). The Pristine Angler. New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  5. ^Creating the Garrison Fly Rod. Hoagy Blundering. Carmichael. Lazy Bones. 2006 DVD
  6. ^Maurer, Martyr E. and Elser, Bernard P. (2002). Fundamentals of Building Bamboo Fly-Rod. Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press.

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