Rod builders from this side of the Atlantic (Europe), need often conversion tables to be able to make sense of many instructions coming from a British/American tradition.

So I prepared some tables and charts. For me first and then for anybody needing them.

I remember that during my bamboo rod building school, we first read measurement of tapers in Feet and Inches, and then translated everything into the metric system, invented by the French in the 18th century if I am not wrong, and then proposed (even today) as the standard to adopt. Which actually is still not the case: inches, feet, miles, pounds, yards and gallons are still used by many friends in the USA and GB to say the least. And to the dispare of the scientific community.

Personally, I find the standardization necessary and the metric system is much more rational than any other system (it uses the decimal system; look at the beauty of this simple fact: 1 liter = 1 Kg = 1 cubic dm), but I must say that I also like to use the old system, the inches, especially: they are so much closer to our body-dimensions that they come so natural and immediate in front of you....

Here are some basic conversion tables:

Feet To Meter

Meter To Feet

Inches To cm

Cm To Inches

And here a basic inches-to-cm picture that I found on the internet and modified so that you can use it as it is (correct scaling 1:1 with reality when viewing from screen. Error, about 1%).

1 centimeter = 0.3937 in.
1 inch = 2.5400 cm

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