Eden Cane’s unique and labor intensive NODE-LESS CONSTRUCTION Method is used on every rod Bernard builds.  This painstaking process removes the weak growth rinds from the bamboo, that can cause splitting and breakage in the finished rod. Another benefit of this method is that blemished sections can be removed from otherwise perfect cane, resulting in a cleaner aesthetic on the finished rod. But the singular largest benefit of scarfed node-less construction as practiced by  EDEN CANE  is, that 17 - 18% of totally worthless non-power-fiber material is  removed, discarded and physically replaced with 17 - 18%  of solid bamboo power fiber in the building of every rod.  Immediate results? Lighter, stronger blanks. More power with far better power-to-weight ratios than available from any other bamboo construction method. Thinner diameter blanks with less wind resistance. Bottom Line translation...One of the best performing Cane Rods you can buy... period.

Perhaps the ultimate recognition of the result of all the attention to detail lavished on every Eden Cane rod is the prestigious honor bestowed on these rods by the award of  “GRAY’S BEST” recently granted to these rods by Gray’s Sporting Journal.

WE QUOTE:

          “Every year, a new crop of split-cane rod makers emerges bent on either emulating the Old Masters or blazing new trails. Bernard Ramanauskas, of Eden Cane, started out on the first track, making rods to the tapers of H.S. Gillum and F.E. Thomas, but after learning what he could from their tapers he quickly set off on his own unique path— “unique” because Eden Cane rods are nodeless.

          Nodal rings are the weakest part of a bamboo culm, and the weakest part of a split-cane rod. To prevent rod breakage or flat spots in the action, the nodes in each strip are filed and pressed flat then staggered using various schemes—the ubiquitous 2X2, the Leonard 3X3, the Garrison offset. But no matter how they are staggered, nodes are always a weak spot and a wild card, explaining why a pair of theoretically identical rods from the same maker might cast quite differently. Ramanauskas played around with various spacing schemes until deciding the best was simply to eliminate nodes altogether with a long scarf joint. Other makers have tried labor-intensive nodeless construction in the past—Everett Garrison, for one—but Ramanauskas stuck with it, and bamboo-rod fanciers are the beneficiaries.

            Compared with his predecessors and many of his contemporaries, Eden Cane rods are quicker and brisker, feeling similar to anglers raised on graphite but with a subtle elegance and refinement graphite will never equal. And they are beautiful, with five coats of dipped and sanded spar varnish on the honey-colored blanks before the Pearsall Gossamer silks go on, then a coat of polymer sealer on the wraps and another glasslike coat of spar varnish. Even the cases are unique—a Cordura-covered vented tube subdivided internally by moisture -  wicking pile.

Eden Cane rods are, in a word, magnificent, the best cane rods I’ve fished, and at $2,100 they are, if not a screaming bargain, then at least fairly priced.” —JRB   (James (Jim) R. Babb - Editor, Gray’s)