Re: Ruten-Stangenware vs. Hochpreisige Ruten
Verfasst: 12.03.2017, 10:56
Moin,
der Artikel von Michael aus seinem Blog hat mir gut gefallen:
At the top of the range you are dealing with extraordinary technologies. The finest carbon thread is around 6-10 micrometres (hundred thousandth of a millimetre) about 1/15th of the thickness of human hair. Seeing it is a challenge, let alone fabricating it into cloth form. Fishing rods are made from somewhat heavier materials but they are still very expensive: the span per square metre runs from around £60 to thousands of pounds. The world-leading 3M Powerlux (TM) resin is engineered at the molecular level (millionth of a millimetre) and is correspondingly expensive. 3M licence the use of Powerlux to a very limited range of companies who use it in their premium rods around the £950 price point. A high quality rod priced around £500 will embody 3-6 different types of carbon that are laid directionally to achieve specific design purposes of flexibility, rigidity, strength, uniform behaviour under load and the widest performance envelope. The bonding is probably the resin used in the previous generation of top-line rods. You get what you pay for: there's no free lunch in carbon fibre and resin: cheaper inescapably means more compromises. This does not necessarily mean bad, but the compromises usually manifest themselves in a narrower envelope, for example in a smaller choice of line profiles or cast types in which the rod will give its best performance and user satisfaction.
Ist zwar von 2013 - 3M hat z.B. die Lizenz für den Rutenbereich inzwischen an Pure Fishing verkauft - aber die Grundaussage dürfte weiterhin stimmen.
Grüsse
Martin
der Artikel von Michael aus seinem Blog hat mir gut gefallen:
At the top of the range you are dealing with extraordinary technologies. The finest carbon thread is around 6-10 micrometres (hundred thousandth of a millimetre) about 1/15th of the thickness of human hair. Seeing it is a challenge, let alone fabricating it into cloth form. Fishing rods are made from somewhat heavier materials but they are still very expensive: the span per square metre runs from around £60 to thousands of pounds. The world-leading 3M Powerlux (TM) resin is engineered at the molecular level (millionth of a millimetre) and is correspondingly expensive. 3M licence the use of Powerlux to a very limited range of companies who use it in their premium rods around the £950 price point. A high quality rod priced around £500 will embody 3-6 different types of carbon that are laid directionally to achieve specific design purposes of flexibility, rigidity, strength, uniform behaviour under load and the widest performance envelope. The bonding is probably the resin used in the previous generation of top-line rods. You get what you pay for: there's no free lunch in carbon fibre and resin: cheaper inescapably means more compromises. This does not necessarily mean bad, but the compromises usually manifest themselves in a narrower envelope, for example in a smaller choice of line profiles or cast types in which the rod will give its best performance and user satisfaction.
Ist zwar von 2013 - 3M hat z.B. die Lizenz für den Rutenbereich inzwischen an Pure Fishing verkauft - aber die Grundaussage dürfte weiterhin stimmen.
Grüsse
Martin