That is very interesting. I build rods, but none of legendery status. Very castable and fishable, but not legendery.
A few friends of mine bought The Hook and Hackle Company a couple of years ago and moved it from Plattsburg NY. to Homestead Pa. It sounds very much like he uses their blanks.
They are usualy very well informed about things like this. I’m going to have to give them a holler and see what is up with Mr Betters.
I’ve had an itch to build a nice short 3 wt. latelty.