FERRULES AND THEIR FITTING 139 



the flexible bamboo emerges from 

 the rigid metal tubing; and it is at 

 one of these places that the rod is 

 most likely to give way under excep- 

 tional stress. A further good ex- 

 pedient to relieve the strain at joint 

 connections, is to locate a line-guide 

 at the lower end of each female fer- 

 rule, so that the line pull at these 

 ferrule guides will come more di- 

 rectly against the stronger side of 

 the joints between the separate 

 pieces of the rod. 



The amateur rod-tinker need not 

 however pay the dealer the very 

 considerable cost of ferrules hav- 

 ing flexible ends fifty or seventy-five cents more 

 a pair but, with the use either of a fine hack-saw 

 or a small triangular saw-file, he may proceed to do 

 his own splitting or serrating, as the case may be. 

 When using the saw, it is advisable first to fit a plug 

 of soft wood snugly within the ferrule-end to be 

 sawed and to cut it off flush with the metal. In 



using the file, first notch the 

 ferrule-end in two places, 

 corresponding to its exact 

 middle diameter, by one 

 stroke of the tool held hori- 

 Next, divide each half of the 



Split and serrated 

 ferrules 



Figures i, 2, and 3 Guiding- 

 notches for serrating ferrules 



zontally (Fig. i). 



