Available from EBay, costs vary. Mine cost me £114 inc carriage from China.

What you get.
A 2-piece rod, spare tip, and quality cloth bag.


Cosmetics.
Superficially nice. Red silk whippings, nickel silver ferrules and reel-seat hardware. Blonde cane with nodes arranged spiral fashion. Half-Wells cork handle.
Closer inspection revealed off-set tip ring (on both tips), off-set butt ring, loads of filler in the handle and a wood (of some description) reel-seat which had a horrible varnish job. The cane blank looks nice (good varnish job) and the epoxy over the whippings is neat and even.

Performance.
The reel-seat works well. The ferrules are tight and come apart with a nice pop.
For fishing I used a set-up which comprised an old Youngs Condex reel, a vintage silk line, and a knotted leader starting with 8lb bs and tapering down to 2lb bs.
The rod performs straight casts and roll casts beautifully. It is accurate and effortless to use. The Condex balances the rod nicely. We have another Zhu cane rod user on here and although his rod is a seven and a half footer I thought his early experiences of using the rod, and his comments were worth including in this review (thanks Steven), especially in light of the fact that I have only been able to catch small grayling with mine (this is not the rods fault).

"so it all felt quite good to me, and I just needed to slow down a bit.
I took three wild trout on it in three casts from the same pool on the Eden, the first about 3/4lb then one about 1.25lb then the third was over 1.5lbs, and it handled them beautifully.
The fish has its own way for a while, and the rod was bent right over but soon recovered.
All in all, I would say for what I paid for it,I am more than happy, and don't feel I have wasted a lot of money on something I may use six times a year."

So there you have it. Nice rod, performs well, let down by poor finishing. Steven's rod is evidently not poorly finished and to me that speaks volumes about final quality control.

Incidentally, I have no real worries about the blank. These are sold to a number of outlets for finishing and if there were any real problems there would be more horror stories than there are. In fact I was offered a Zhu rod by a UK rod builder for over £200 (he does something with the ferrules, although on my rod the ferrules are very good).

In summary.......

Good points.
Lovely in use.
Rings, ferrules and reel-seat hardware are quality items.
Whipping and blank finishing is attractive.
Inexpensive.

Bad points.
General finishing, handle is not great. Reel-seat needs sanded and re-varnished.

Overall I'm delighted with the rod - a good introduction the fishing with cane. Now I want a hand-built British rod!