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ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
mike brune
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Date: February 03, 2011 07:34PM
Can someone email me instructions on building ventilated rod grips.
Thanks in advance Mike Mikes Custom Fly Rods Re: ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
Mike Barkley
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Date: February 03, 2011 07:45PM
What are they??????????????????? Mike (Southgate, MI) If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!! Re: ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
Lane Pelissier
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Date: February 03, 2011 08:46PM
Glue the cork rings on the fly blank with a little space between them. Then shape the grip.
Lane Re: ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
Ron Weber
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Date: February 03, 2011 09:04PM
Seems to me that could lead to cork breakout without any support between the rings, but I have never tried it though. Ron Weber Re: ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
Lane Pelissier
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Date: February 03, 2011 09:08PM
I've never done one either but I think I read about it in The Lovely Reed.
Lane Re: ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
john timberlake
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Date: February 03, 2011 09:13PM
it could be neat if you used some cork checkers missing some pieces in the gaps. it would make a nice pattern and give it more stablility to prevent breakout Re: ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
roger wilson
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Date: February 04, 2011 02:05AM
Sounds like a receipe for an unhappy fisherman with a broken handle.
Roger Re: ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
Lane Pelissier
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Date: February 04, 2011 08:43AM
Many of the vintage bamboo guys love them. They say that ventilated grips are their favorite grips do to the comfort and that they allow the rod to flex into the grip better, I like JT's idea. That could make for a very interesting custom grip.
Lane Re: ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
George Forster
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Date: February 04, 2011 09:08AM
I would build and shape the grip as usual, then add grooves for ventilation. George Forster Fort Collins, CO Re: ventilated rod grip
Posted by:
steve clark
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Date: February 06, 2011 05:35PM
Interested in the ventilated grip myself, so took notes when I ran across it on Clark's board not too terribly long ago. One respondent said (from my notes, not verbatim):
"I own Martha Marie Young's Perfectionist made by her husband Paul Young, and it has the ventilated grip. Looking at it with a magnifying glass, you see where Paul Young set the cork, then trapped it using silk windings. The grip face only has the rear trapped, the next cork has both front and rear trapped with silk. I imagine he used some sort of spacer to set the spacing as they are all exact. The last cork is trapped by the all cork seat and butt cap (also cork). "Glue on cane, slide cork down, wrap silk, more glue, next cork, push tightly against previous silk windings and spacer; repeat . . . not saying Paul Young did this for every ventilated grip he built, but he did on this particular rod. I'm sure there are different ways to approach this, since Bob Summers did this, as did South Bend, and modern maker RW Lancaster. Perhaps someone with a rod by Mr. Lancaster could give more insight." another said . . . "I just checked the grip on my Lancaster built in 1983, his interpretation of the PHY Perfectionist. Close inspection reveals the grip has been glued up with cork rings with nothing between them. Evidently he used a removable spacer when gluing the rings on to accomplish a spacing of approx. 0.7mm between rings." I'll have to at least give it a try at some point . . . – smc – Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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