I nternet gathering place for custom rod builders
  • Custom Rod Builders - This message board is provided for your use by the sponsors listed on the left side of the page. Feel free to post any question, answers or topics related in any way to custom building. When purchasing products please remember those who sponsor this board.

  • Manufacturers and Vendors - Only board sponsors are permitted and encouraged to promote and advertise products on the board. You may become a sponsor for a nominal fee. It is the sponsor fees that pay for this message board.

  • Rules - Rod building is a decent and rewarding craft. Those who participate in it are assumed to be civilized individuals who are kind and considerate in their dealings with others. Please respond to others in the same fashion in which you would like to be responded to. Registration IS NOW required in order to post. You must include your actual First and Last name and a correct email address when registering or posting. Posts which are inflammatory, insulting, or that fail to include a proper name and email address will be removed and the persons responsible will be barred from further participation.

    Registration is now required in order to post. You must include your actual First and Last name and a correct email address when registering or posting.
SPONSORS

2024 ICRBE EXPO
CCS Database
Custom Rod Symbol
Common Cents Info
American Grips Piscari
American Tackle
Anglers Rsrc - Fuji
BackCreek Custom Rods
BatsonRainshadowALPS
CRB
Cork4Us
HNL Rod Blanks–CTS
Custom Fly Grips LLC
Decal Connection
Flex Coat Co.
Get Bit Outdoors
HFF Custom Rods
HYDRA
Janns Netcraft
Mudhole Custom Tackle
MHX Rod Blanks
North Fork Composites
Palmarius Rods
REC Components
RodBuilders Warehouse
RodHouse France
RodMaker Magazine
Schneiders Rod Shop
SeaGuide Corp.
Stryker Rods & Blanks
TackleZoom
The Rod Room
The FlySpoke Shop
USAmadefactory.com
Utmost Enterprises
VooDoo Rods
Goto Topic: Previous•Next
Goto: Forum List•Message List•New Topic•Search•Log In Or Register•Print View
Woven Carbon fiber grips and epoxy coating
Posted by: Glenn McMurrian (---.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net)
Date: January 05, 2021 04:24PM

Has anybody ever used Permaglos or Epoxy over woven carbon fiber grips and how did like it and how did it feel to fish.

Glenn McMurrian

Options: Reply•Quote
Re: Woven Carbon fiber grips and epoxy coating
Posted by: Tom Kirkman (Moderator)
Date: January 05, 2021 05:36PM

PermaGloss is the preferred medium for coating such grips. It's thinner, lighter and tougher than epoxy. It also improves the tactile feel and grip over a non-finished grip.

...............

Options: Reply•Quote
Re: Woven Carbon fiber grips and epoxy coating
Posted by: Glenn McMurrian (45.43.14.---)
Date: January 05, 2021 05:53PM

Tom Kirkman Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> PermaGloss is the preferred medium for coating
> such grips. It's thinner, lighter and tougher than
> epoxy. It also improves the tactile feel and grip
> over a non-finished grip.
>
> ...............

How many coats are needed Tom.

Glenn McMurrian

Options: Reply•Quote
Re: Woven Carbon fiber grips and epoxy coating
Posted by: Tom Kirkman (Moderator)
Date: January 05, 2021 06:39PM

If the surface is smooth, just one.

[www.youtube.com]

.................

Options: Reply•Quote
Re: Woven Carbon fiber grips and epoxy coating
Posted by: Russell Brunt (---.lightspeed.miamfl.sbcglobal.net)
Date: January 05, 2021 07:23PM

Tom, on the grips that have a lot of texture, like the ones from NFC......should I be using several coats of PermaGloss......or a coat of laminating epoxy first sanded back.....or perhaps sanding the grip first?

Russ in Hollywood, FL.

Options: Reply•Quote
Re: Woven Carbon fiber grips and epoxy coating
Posted by: Tom Kirkman (Moderator)
Date: January 05, 2021 09:52PM

PermaGloss is much too thin to function as a sealer or filler. What I have done is use standard System 3 epoxy (any similar will work) as a filler and then sand down to smooth, and then a final with PG. Much quicker and more effective.

.............

Options: Reply•Quote


Goto: Forum List•Message List•Search•Log In Or Register
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
Click here to login
Webmaster