Hey guys was recently at the outdoors expo up here in NY and always like to check out the rods and get some new ideas for future builds. One thing that really was impressive to me was the GLoomis GLX Spinning Grip. It was a hybrid Tennessee grip, seemed as though the cork was built around reel seat tube, and was somehow using an uplocking device (KDPS possibly) to push the bottom split of the corck grip against the top portion to secure the reel footing. Any idea how they did this? Man was it comfortable.

Cant tell how they built the grip. Looks like the main portion would be a Fuji IPS seat (top part of the grip). The bottom of the grip is cork reamed out to slide over the thread and tube section of the IPS (though they somehow have the graphite hood material on the cork area). And I would assume the locking nut is the HPS with no hood and the cork glued down on top. Uplocking this would push the bottom corck slide up against the main IPS grip locking around the reel footings. Again not sure if this is how they did it, any ideas, how did they make the bottom section of the cork with the graphite hood?

I've had many Loomis rods in the past, and many of the grips they have are very comfortable, but don't hold up. The bass series rods had a hidden recessed reel foot area built into the foregrip cork on the spinning rods and then shaved cork in the middle. So comfortable, but everyone I owned fell apart eventually.

I would wait and see how they hold up before putting them on any of your builds...but that's just my 2 cents.

The Loomis NRX spinning grip I think would be lighter and cheaper to build. The components were scoped out back on page 4 near the bottom, it may end up on page 5 though pretty quick.