Rattan Wrapping to cork grip from scratch..

In recent years, I have done a couple of rattan grips for fly rods. This may not be something new to some of you but I just thought of sharing some photos of its' processes.


These are the main ingredient of the "Rattan grip"
Cork rings and rattan strips preferably 3 to 4mm width. 

If the strips are too wide, the rattan grip will have fewer wrapping and does not have "enough meat" to show..
 

The cork rings are then glues, packed and let dry as least 24 hours.

Measuring the outer diameter required for the fly grip.
 

Then, the cork grip was lathed. Alternatively, you can just use a pre-form or buy those ready made cork grip off the shelf.
 

Then the rattan strips was wrapped over the cork handle. The rattan strip was glued using a small quantity of Titebond waterproof glue.

If you look carefully, you will be able to noticed that there are shadow lines between the strips.

These lines are created by running a darker colour thread along the groove between 2 rattan strips.

Before you do the threading exercise, make sure the excessive glue and other loose rattan fibers are removed.

Later 2 coating of Spar Urethane are applied on the rattan wrapping. 

Pre fittng to the blank before epoxying.

You can find tutorials on this in the internet, but here is the link I referred to when I first tried rattan wrapping.

My other work on rattan grip > Lamiglas