JimRippe Posted November 7, 2006 Posted November 7, 2006 Recently turned these grips that are a polyester white pearl imitation. They are installed on a CTS, colbalt blue blank. Quote
Super User flechero Posted November 7, 2006 Super User Posted November 7, 2006 Jim, Fantastic job! They look perfect! What did you use to polish after turning? Quote
justtrying Posted November 7, 2006 Posted November 7, 2006 Oh Man!!! Jim, that is a GREAT looking job. Fantastic! ok, now, all the details, please....... ronnie Quote
islandfisherman Posted November 7, 2006 Posted November 7, 2006 Very Nice!!!Yes please give us the run down on the rod and grips....Alan Quote
JimRippe Posted November 9, 2006 Author Posted November 9, 2006 DETAILS, DETAILS, DEATAILS. O.K. I can only give out some of the details. An editor has request photos of this rod and has ask me to quite down some. Anyway, the blank is a CTS colbalt blue, 6' 6". The grips are a white polyester imitation pearl rod that I ordered from Masecraft. They have alot of colors. The came to me in 5" lenghts so I had some fun turning them on my wood lath. I then sanded them until I got down to 2000 grit paper and then used "Hut Ultra Gloss" polish. This polish is for plastic. To reduce some weight from the polyester, I drilled them out to near the end and then used a Flexcoat arbor to fill the gap. After I had the grips done, I knew I had to do an easy wrap that was not too busy. I didn't want to take away from the grips. So I decided to do a scale wrap. The thread I used is Madeira, polyneon #40, colors 1843, 1842, and 1801. Hope this helps. Below are links where I got the polyester rods from. http://www.masecraftsupply.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=MU&Category_Code=DSS Quote
JimRippe Posted November 9, 2006 Author Posted November 9, 2006 O.K., here is a close up photo of the wrap too. Quote
NEBassMan Posted November 9, 2006 Posted November 9, 2006 Good God man... Absolutely beautiful!! Jason Quote
Super User flechero Posted November 9, 2006 Super User Posted November 9, 2006 Can we assume the "editor" to be T.K.? (so I can get the details when my copy arrives) Again, fine work! Can you give us an idea of the weight of the material? Did you sleeve it with cork or an arbor? (if it was heavy) Quote
JimRippe Posted November 9, 2006 Author Posted November 9, 2006 Yes, T.K. He want top quality photos if I ever get them to him. No interveiw! Just photos. It would be a few months out if he publishes them. Cork would be to heavy so I used Flexcoat Arbors. Quote
Super User Alpster Posted November 9, 2006 Super User Posted November 9, 2006 Very nice work and a very interesting material. Lovely to look at. Thanks for the pics. Ronnie Quote
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