I liked the look of these, the way Paul Young did it, but I prefer to stack rings one on top the other and compress them a little. So I cut them in on my lathe with my crosslide.
A different take on the ventilated grip
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Re: A different take on the ventilated grip
#2I like the way the ventilated grips feel, but I am with you on the stacking and gluing rings. Since I don't have a lathe to do it the way you did, I will probably just build a jig and use my dremel with a cutoff disk in it to get the concentric grooves. The first one I do, I will use the stash of old champagne cork end pieces I have so as not to waste my really good cork. In fact, musing to myself while I write this, I think I'll try a couple of experimental things on this rod. Well, now you got me excited to try something different.
Re: A different take on the ventilated grip
#3Jim, if I understand correctly, you are cutting the gaps in after gluing a solid grip? If so, does this allow you to feel the full flex, in the hand, on say, a Driggs or other fuller flexing rods? I'm curious whether the cork glued to the blank, under the cuts would dampen the flexing. I should add, if not, then that would certainly make a ventilated grip easier to do. I've done just one, gluing each ring with spacers between, and that was time consuming.
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Re: A different take on the ventilated grip
#4I am cutting them in after. I chose to go 1 inch gaps. These are not deep enough to sense any flexing, but they could be cut deeper. these felt comfortable. BTW it's the PHY 275 Perfectionist taper, it feels like it always feels, nice!
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Re: A different take on the ventilated grip
#5Jim what tool are you using for a cutter? I would think tearout would be an issue.
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Re: A different take on the ventilated grip
#7Bob Summers does puts the ventilations in along the lines you describe. His gaps are a bit wider, and deep enough to look Young-like, but he leaves some cork at the arbor.
Looks very nice!
Looks very nice!
Re: A different take on the ventilated grip
#8I think the way you do it is the best. It allows the use of an expanding glue, like Gorilla glue, which otherwise would expand into the gaps left between corks. It also permits cutting the slots at any interval, not limited by the size of the corks.jim royston wrote: ↑02/04/23 13:07I liked the look of these, the way Paul Young did it, but I prefer to stack rings one on top the other and compress them a little. So I cut them in on my lathe with my crosslide.
The only Bob Summers rod with a ventilated grip which I have handled does have cork, not visible bamboo, at the bottom of the slots. The diameter in the depth of each slot looks as though there is only a very small layer of cork over the bamboo. I would expect the rod to flex in a similar manner to how it would if there were bare bamboo at the bottom.