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Engraving and Inlays - Agutter read and heard about the new tapers and designs of Cane Rods in the USA. Names coming to the fore like Youngs and Thomas & Thomas. Agutter began to introduce ornate
engravings onto his fittings, and inlays into handles, again he was frowned upon for his ideas by the UK institutions.
 
Some years later Alastair Agutter when talking to Johnny Walker, as Walkers were closing due to retirement and Agutter bought the equipment and the remaining tools and cane. John Walker said to him, "for years we have been making Cane and we use to say! You can have any length of Rod, as long as it's 3/64" at the tip". He went on.......
 
Never a True Word - ........to say! "We, like Hardy's and Sharpes have always made good cane. We are good at manufacturing. But the Americans, they have made Split Cane rodmaking into a science"
 
In those later years when Agutter met and become friends with many of the old true manufactures of Cane in the UK. There was a mutual silence of respect, and an honesty between them. They knew in the late seventies, what he was trying to do.
 
To celebrate 300 years of Izaak Walton out of all the manufacturers and Rodmakers in the UK. Agutter was comissioned by the Izaak Walton Foundation to make a limited Edition. His Rodmaking skills were recieving acclaim by the National Press and featured on the BBC. A stamp was also made by the Royal Mail for the Izaak Walton Tercenteenary year.
 
The first Izaak Walton Rod he made was a gift to the"Secretary General of Canada" from the Izaak Walton Foundation and the London Chamber of Commerce.
 
He recieved further acclaim as "Best London Rods". The only other Company to be dourned such as name was "Best London Guns" James Purdey & Sons.
 
The Big Picture - By the early beginning of the 1980's the tackle industry in the UK manufactured 78% for the UK market, the old traditional companies beleived they were infallable.
 
Agutter was shown a new rod import from Japan made by Kunnan in 1979. It was Carbon fibre and the finish was superb. The Japanese had used an epoxy resin to finish around the whippings. At that time also in the Thatcher years, Diawa from Japan was making tackle for the UK Market. At that time he was being pressed by Anglers in the UK to make a production range of laminate rods for the UK Market, but incorporating the standards and quality of workmanship used for his Cane rods. He feared that if the Japanese got a foot hold in the UK, they could wipe out the British Fishing Industry. The Japanese were not only making fishing rods but accessories too.
 
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