I'm looking for a site with pictures of all the varied fly rod grips, especially the fenwick and ritz styles. Naturally it would be nice if such a site had templates to copy. You don't often see the more obscure style grips for sale.

Without a template I find myself sanding in the dark.

thank for any input.

marc

Struble makes a Fenwick style they call "modified wells". Hook and Hackle has a picture of it on their website. You could print it out, blow it up to appropriate scale and make a template. Or just find an old Fenwick on @#$%& and do the same thing with a picture.

Rodmaker magazine is gradually, issue by issue, providing templates of all the popular and some not so well-known grips but only 2 have been released so far so you have to wait on that.

Steve

Power Fibers (http://www.powerfibers.com/) had an interesting two part article on grips a while back that showed the evolution of grips. The author discussed the ergonomics of the various shapes. Included were several drawings of grips from a number of the masters, including the original Wells and Ritz.

Hi, Mark! We've got the Struble grip on our store as well...I meant to mention that to you other day (sorry!). I may have recently found a new source for these as well...I'll get back to you on it and see if I can send you a sample.

Talk at you later! :)

Thanks all...

fascinating stuff the history of fly angling... so many grips, so few blanks.

actually I've now got a hankering for this handle. The diameter is too small for my blank since it accomadates up to .380 the blank I'am building is .384

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now if i could find this exact pattern, trace it, then build slightly larger with my own cork rings - maybe some of those kewl burnt cork rings from andy dear - that would be a sweet handle for an 8'6" 3wt.

btw, I've only heard about Andy Dears cork rings have not yet seen them. When last I logged on to his site I couldn't locate any cork ring images. where oh where could they be?

Thanks Steve for the struble modied wells grip information.

John i reckon I'll probably go with it for the FT 8wt. later this summer.

thanks again.

marc

Here's a pic of a handle I did for a 6wt FT , nice stuff , kinda' hard to shape , but keep at it , it goes away . [www.fishingphotos.net] , Good luck , have fun. JHD

WoW!

nice job John.

thanks for the image.

i've used the anglersworkshop burl and it is fine, very tough stuff.

Is Andy's burnt cork strong. by that i mean can you use it on the ends and not fear chipping, degrading etc.

funny how the DC blanks have the logo/lettering prepositioned. so that if you make a short handle the lettering is quite-aways up-rod.

marc