Handles and grips for Staffs

i heard that some innercore guys have exchanged vows with their loverly staves.

just a nasty rumour though...
/whistles

Well, I haven't really EXCHANGED vows, I given mine to my four, but am still waiting for a reply

----<please don't tell the wife and kid>----

thats kinda disturbing..... then again I think my staff is my child.

jeez charles...can't you ever stay on topic?

heh. anyways. [Frost]...what are the advantages of your handles? and do you have any pictures?

Also, has anyone using a solid staff tried shaving down the staff a little bit where the handle is (like with a lathe or something)? The staff would be a little bit weaker there...but you could have a nice cushiony handle that doesn't stick out too much, making the handle so "fat." Just a thought.

Well here's a staff I made yesterday:

ok so that didn't work see below for link

[ 04. July 2003, 19:13: Message edited by: DJ Dimples [Frost] ]

Hikotage! how are you! Haven't seen you post for ages (must mean i'm going blind).

I can stay on topic if it try, what was the topic on this thread again?

Oh, and DJ Dimples, those pics aren't showing up on my screen...

erm I noticed that.... here I made a page with the pics on it.

http://www.geocities.com/fire204_bm/staffpics/staffcon.html

[ 04. July 2003, 19:12: Message edited by: DJ Dimples [Frost] ]

I coulda sworn thoes were pictures of a fire-stick

yes.... note the handle.....
Thats the best my $20o digital cam can do. You get what you pay for

I've just made an aluminum staff using red and black leather for the handle, and i'm pretty happy with it. I glued it on using rubbery glue stuff that can stick anything to anything called fulaprene 303. The handle is half the length of the staff. At the ends of the handle and in the centre i've used some electrical tape to prevent the leather from getting kinda frayed or peeled off or whatever.

i made a wooden staff with a leather handel for my friend's birthday. i laced it up with black gimp, and it seems to work pretty well. but, i dont do staff, i just made one for kicks. she said it works well, so i guess thats good

re: Jez - 'All these posts about staff grips and you missed out the most obvious and the best.
I use self amalgamating tape. This stuff is really good as it provides a none slippery grip, a small amount of cushioning and also once applied it bonds to become one piece so that you cannot peel it off again you have to cut it away. So therefore you do not get the wear and tear associated with using other grips.'

self-amalgamating tape is great. the first and only self-amalgamating tape I used on firestaves turned out to be SOLUBLE IN PARAFFIN. just made a black sticky mess when I spun off

so by all means, use self-amal, but check the damn label first. no point getting unnecessaary gack on yrself

q

I have mine set up with a solid center......like the inner core staffs, and hockey tape going about six inches on each side, and I ribbed it.

i remember palying with someone's staff at falmouth just gone, i think it may have been Brad's, and he had a metal staff, with i think it was a white silicone grip, that stood out, but it gave amazing grip and in some ways control in doing the 2 contact wraps i can do

I made my own staff from heavy iron tent-pole...
without grip...
and I don't encounter problems while catching my throws...
am I that great or are the rest wooses? (dunno how to write it )

and dark coloured ends?
my staff ends are naturally blackened: I just don't clean 'em!
and cold in wintertime....
oh well, i'll just grab a few centimeters closer to the wicks... :P

sif, my gaffa improv works fine!

ive tried hockey tape, medical tape, electrical tape, duct tape, tennis grip, carpet padding, bicycle tubes, bare rod, and leather. i still cant find one i absolutely love. that silicone stuff sounds cool though. where do you get it?