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Richard Schwarz
Registered: April 2007
Location: North East
Posts: 31
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Finally got a chance to spend some time in the shop and had some fun making some foam core handles. The 2 black ones are sleeved in carbon fiber, the colored handles are dyed fiberglass sleeves.
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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I got to see these in person Friday, tehy are gorgeous in teh sunlight. Nice work.
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Phil Richmond
Registered: April 2005
Location: Yokosuka, Japan
Posts: 168
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This is very cool. How do you die the sleeves? Is that something you came up with or is this in a Rodmaker issue I've missed?
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Richard Schwarz
Registered: April 2007
Location: North East
Posts: 31
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Phil - I tried several different paints to saturate the fiberglass sleeves, all seemed to work just fine. I used testors paint, another model paint used on plastic R/C car bodies and even tried a waterbased auto paint. I added Pearl-X to some to get a bit of a sparkle. First I cut the sleeve to size, then brushed on the paint in a very heavy coat and rolled the sleeve on a pice of wax paper to ensure full saturation, it basically collapses on itself and becomes flat. I then open it back up and place it on a mandrel to dry. Once the paont dries it is a bit stiff but loosens up once you start to work with it.
Hope that helps,
Rich
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Phil Richmond
Registered: April 2005
Location: Yokosuka, Japan
Posts: 168
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Very cool. When I finally get back to building rods this will be very cool to try. Thanks.
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