That could be it too, the threaded rod was a little bowed when I rolled it. Whatever happened I'll try to prevent it with this advice next time, but I think I'm just going to line up the imperfection with my casting stroke and not worry about it for this rod.
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We used sandpaper the whole time. He told me that he thought a cutting tool would tear the cork apart. I'm kind of inclined to agree that the offset is unlikely to affect the performance of the rod I just figured I'd get some other opinions.
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"One way to avoid such an issue in the future would be to ream or bore out the individual cork rings before gluing the cork together. Then, align the out side of the cork when gluing up. Then, build up the mandrel with masking tape to match the inside diameter of the reamed out cork and the cork will be centered properly each time." It's for a fly rod. ^^This is exactly th
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I just turned my first cork grip yesterday. I know someone with a lathe who is fairly experienced using it so I went and did it with them. I'm not quite sure how it happened (I suspect that the rotation of the lathe was a bit eccentric), but the center hole in the front of the grip wound up about an 1/8" off center. The hole on the back end of the grip is dead on. My question is twofold. If
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