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	<title>The North Fork Connection - The Official Blog of North Fork Composites &#187; Blank Design</title>
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	<description>Rod Blanks Designed by Gary Loomis for the Custom and OEM Builder</description>
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		<title>New is Not Always Better</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/08/24/new-is-not-always-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So our telephone provider, Verizon, moved our service without our knowing to some new company, Frontier. If you call us right now, you will find out exactly how well that is working. Whether it&#8217;s a new phone service, new blanks or new materials, we don&#8217;t make a change until we&#8217;re 100 percent sure it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Casting Practice</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/04/25/some-casting-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may be better folks to learn to fly cast from, but I don&#8217;t know many. Just killing a Sunday afternoon casting the new Trout Fly 905. It was great to meet Peter&#8217;s dad, Ken, who was in town.]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit With Emory Harry</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/04/01/a-visit-with-emory-harry/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/04/01/a-visit-with-emory-harry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blank Design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I find myself in situations where my brain really struggles to keep up. This was one of those times. The goal was to learn about frequency and its relevance to blank manufacturing. My teacher was the noted Emory Harry. This visit was a prelude to the main course, which is his work on measuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Print, Radio, and Now Video&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/03/09/print-radio-now-video/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/03/09/print-radio-now-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blank Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First we had the Tackle Tour Interview article. Then came the Intinerent Angler Podcast. Now, we have the story of how Gary got into rods on video.]]></description>
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		<title>A Note for the Folks at Tackle Tour</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/03/04/a-note-for-the-folks-at-tackle-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/03/04/a-note-for-the-folks-at-tackle-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blank Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blanks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes while I&#8217;m at my desk wolfing down my lunch, I&#8217;ll pull up a couple forums and see what the latest is. Today I happened to find some confusion that I&#8217;d like to clear up. A poster on a well known board was questioning the origin of the Z-Bone blanks. So, I grabbed my camera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fly Blanks II</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/02/23/fly-blanks-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/02/23/fly-blanks-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blank Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blanks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NFC News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason has mentioned that he has more 2-piece fly blanks to test than I previously realized. If all of them work out, there will be a good pile of fly-specific stuff soon (including light trout, mid-weights and steelhead, with saltwater next on the list)! Jason mentioned that the current actions are focused more toward &#8220;classic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fly Blanks</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/02/22/fly-blanks/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/02/22/fly-blanks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=729</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since 9 out of 10 questions at the Expo were about fly blanks, I thought I&#8217;d give the rest of you an update on where we are. We have a 904, 905 and 906 in the first trial stage. That means that we have built the first round. The second step is for Gary and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kistler Z-Bones Reviewed</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/02/16/kistler-z-bones-reviewed/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2010/02/16/kistler-z-bones-reviewed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blank Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Field Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rod Building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re proud to be building blanks for Trey and any other rod maker that is interested in moving to blanks made in our little shop in Woodland, Washington, USA. You can see a review here. If you watch at the video, we don&#8217;t recommend yarding up on the middle of the blank with your off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Days with Imago</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/12/17/a-few-days-with-imago/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/12/17/a-few-days-with-imago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blank Design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the first week of December we met with a potential new European client, Imago Flyfishing, which is based Sweden. Imago&#8217;s owners John and Alex spent four-and-a-half days at North Fork, fishing, casting, testing, and of course, being entertained by Gary&#8217;s stories (everyone is entertained by Gary stories, trust us on that one). We had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary on Rod Breakage</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/12/10/gary-on-rod-breakage/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/12/10/gary-on-rod-breakage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gary has long been a proponent of educating anglers and builders alike on the issues surrounding rod breakage. What follows are a few of the bullet-points gleaned from Gary during a recent interview on breakage. That interview will be published as part of an upcoming article in Rodmaker magazine. • A weak area/defect should show up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary on Rod Design</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/12/08/gary-on-rod-design/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/12/08/gary-on-rod-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blank Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a friend of ours come up and shoot a little video of Gary on a number of topics. Some were decent on the first take. Others will require extensive editing. I suppose that is to be expected, our on-camera talent is a rod designer, not an actor! In this clip, Gary talks about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Two-Way Street</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/11/17/a-two-way-street/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/11/17/a-two-way-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blank Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blanks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that North Fork blanks have been on the market long enough to have had some builds and some fishing, we are starting to get feedback from end-users. North Fork likes feedback, whether it&#8217;s good, bad, or indifferent. We like it because it helps our blanks get better faster—much faster. We&#8217;ve already gotten some useful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOI (Moment of Inertia) Calculator</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/11/02/moi-moment-of-inertia-calculator/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/11/02/moi-moment-of-inertia-calculator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a little adjunct to Jon&#8217;s quick post below. For all of you who love to tinker (that&#8217;s everyone, right?), here&#8217;s some more fun&#8230; From Sexyloops: http://www.sexyloops.com/eric/moi.php]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Catch</title>
		<link>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/11/02/latest-catch/</link>
		<comments>http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/2009/11/02/latest-catch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blank Design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://northforkcomposites.com/blog/?p=430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.latestcatch.com/?q=node/229 This article pretty much sums up why comparing raw blank weights is not much help.]]></description>
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