Andre, you forgot that Streamer builds Dickersons, too? I agree in part with Summers for PHY rods, but they're not replicas of the PHY tapers, rather modifications. I don't recall ever hearing someone say that a Summers rod casts exactly like the comparable PHY model. As for FE Thomas, there are two or three tapers that people seem to build, like the 6'8" rod, but there doesn't seem to be any specialists out there that have an FE Thomas body of work. Maybe AJ is the closest ?