As you can see, restoring the broken tip of a bamboo rod is quite simple. But what if the whole rod breaks in the middle? This is a great reason to turn it a foldable one. To do this, you need to get a connecting tube of a suitable diameter from any strong metal and fix it on the thick (lower) part of the rod with glue. That’s all, now you can insert a thin end into the tube, and the former rod becomes an actual rod.

A tip: if the tip of the rod is too thin and fragile, it can be strengthened by soaking it in heated liner and wrapping it with a nylon thread. When it is dry, you will only have to cover the tip with a mix of acetone and glue evenly.

That said, why use bamboo rods? These days, you can choose any synthetic fishing rod out of hundreds. They are durable, they are easy to fix, they are predictable, and bamboo rods lack all of that. Sure, they are natural, but that is their only real advantage. Old and reliable does not yet mean automatically effective.

Perhaps, if your old bamboo rod is broken, recycling it would be a better idea than restoring it. You could make quite a few cool things out of it, all thanks to the fact it’s bamboo. Making a cool decoration out of a modern plastic rod sound less feasible.