Yep, Ron Poole was a great rod builder, one of the pioneers
It was me that mentioned him in my snake skin diamond post
Now imagine trying to do a double closed fish wrap on a hexagonal blank !
That is as hard as it gets,i know i have done 2 of them
And that is his hand writing.......... how neat !
That blank is most likely from the same batch as the one that i have, it was the first prototype batch that they sent out for testing