Submission for the grip contest

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Joseph Barthelt Registered: February 2007 Posts: 6	Split grip style handle built on a G Loomis GL2. Contoured wooden handle is comfy, and the foregrip has been drum sanded to expose the the blank. One of the most comfortable spinning rods to hold I've ever touched
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Michael Joyce

Registered: March 2005
Location: Central MA
Posts: 1,528

Fri April 20, 2007 12:07am

These foregrips work great depending on where the fisherman holds the rod!Nice job.

mark blabaum

Registered: June 2006
Location: Southwest - Wisconsin
Posts: 1,282

Fri April 20, 2007 8:30am

Very nice.

BIlly Vivona

Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910

Fri April 20, 2007 8:47am

JOe, tha's a great job, I'm glad to see some different shapes in teh grips. I've got one I did myself I will post at some point, I really want to fish it to see if it's as comfy as I hope before posting though. I assume you made the insert longer, and thinned teh OD so the locking nut fits over it? If so you could probably cut down teh threads and make them shorter. I like the foregrip, it's like a pointer finger igloo, lol.

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Joseph Barthelt

Registered: February 2007
Posts: 6

Fri April 20, 2007 10:44am

The threads are a bit long, but I decided to leave them because I feared how "polished" the end would look after cutting it on the band saw. Working with plastic like that makes me a bit leery. The "igloo" look isn't lost on me Bill, I think ideally I would like to use a drum sander with half the diameter of this one and give it a bit more contour. Make the cutout look less severe and not so symetrical.