Recently turned these grips that are a polyester white pearl imitation. They are installed on a CTS, colbalt blue blank.

Here is another photo.

Last photo.

Jim,

Fantastic job!  They look perfect!  What did you use to polish after turning?  

Oh Man!!!

Jim, that is a GREAT looking job.   Fantastic!

ok, now, all the details, please.......

ronnie

Very Nice!!!Yes please give us the run down on the rod and grips....Alan

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

O.K., here is a close up photo of the wrap too.

Good God man...

Absolutely beautiful!!

Jason

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)

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.

Very nice work and a very interesting material. Lovely to look at. Thanks for the pics.

Ronnie