Tyler Durden's latest grip thread, now with pics

[Tyler Durden]

Thanks everybody!

[Tyler Durden]

Whew!  I'm beat.  Last one for tonight.

Black and yellow:

[tombogan03884]

In the photos black and yellow almost looks like wood with a really wild grain.

[kmitch200]

I wonder if black, brown and light brown will look like wood with a very figured grain.
Neat stuff TD! Make some turkish walnut. 

[Big Frank]

Lookin' good Tyler. You could probably sell some college colors grips.

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[Tyler Durden]

That thought had crossed my mind.  And I had searched last week on google.

Surprise...surprise....the one pic I found was part of a quiz to  guess which colors jived up with whichever NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA  teams.  The surprise comes from that fact I didn't know that each of the teams had three colors. 

I have been image google'ing micarta....and man!  I can't believe some of the patterns or designs just in how the fabric is set.  Some of the grips are cut out of a block of micarta that is like 2 inches thick...so on the grips all you see is basically the end grain of the individual threads.  Whew!  That is some long setting resin. 

[Tyler Durden]

well I glued up canvas the other day.  18 layers to be exact.  And since I don't have a fancy CNC router to make all the nice grip-ey grooves and golf ball like dimples, I thought it would be neat to add some ripples to the fabric to at least make for some visually interesting designs.

so I started cutting and sanding my rough blanks last night... and then it struck me....argghh.... I screwed up!   

here's a pic...see if you can figure out what I did wrong....


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There are two grip panels...I call one the driver's side and the other the passenger's side.  hence, the "D.S." and the "P.S. marked on the grips.

The ripples are angled one way....the correct way on the driver's side grip, but I suspect it will look like poo poo with the designs angled the wrong way on the passenger's side grip panel

arghhh...

 

I've got some flate steel bar stock and some skinny rod that I am going to weld together to make a ripple-y mould.

[Tyler Durden]

I was using an old floor mat out of my truck to make the ripples by the way.

How's that for recycling?

 

[PegLeg45]

So dude, when are you going all-in on a 10/22 stock?? 



And I wonder if khaki material will come out looking like faux ivory? 


Hmmmmmm......

[Tyler Durden]

I've got some old dockers I can't fit into any more.  They are kinda khaki or tan.  I could cut those up.