I seem to remember a discussion in a chat or a thread on the BB about what to use on fly rod cork grips to get them new looking again. Anyone else remember that? What was the concensus?
Bob
Cleaning cork
I seem to remember a discussion in a chat or a thread on the BB about what to use on fly rod cork grips to get them new looking again. Anyone else remember that? What was the concensus?
Bob
Fishing the Great Beyond
I like 'Soft-Scrub'.
What he said
It makes cork newOriginally Posted by J Castwell
I like 'Soft-Scrub'.
I use my hands (rough metalworker's hands) dish soap, baking soda, and warm water.
Gentle scrubbing makes everything new again. Only on "non - mojo" dirt, of course.
I sometimes apply cork conditioner to grips, but it does change the feel of the cork.
My main, and favorite rod has four season's worth of mojo, and I like it... but, if I get poison oak, she gets a scrubbing from butt to tip, and I go for new mojo...
I haven't had the oak for four years....................................ModocDan
.........for the record..."the oak" is way bad........'case ya never had it..
I feel sorry for you Dan, I have never had the Oak but most of my friends growing up had it. I at one time working on an eagle scout project stood in the middle of a patch of the stuff and cut down a tree, didn't get it but everyone else did.
I won't say I don't get it because as soon as you say something that stupid then it attacks.
My grandmother was so sensitive that if she drove along a road where they were burning slash and there was some poison oak in the fire she would get it from the smoke.
I don't blame you for washing the bad mojo off, its nothing to mess around with.
Eric
"Complexity is easy; Simplicity is difficult."
Georgy Shragin
Designer of ppsh41 sub machine gun
Wet your hand and sprinkle a small amount of Cascade dishwashing detergent and rub it on the grip with your hand---Cheap easy and fast and your hand gets clean too.
"She had hooks to make a fish think twice!" ---Chris Smither-"Lola"
clean cork
As I recall, one of the suggestions was a waterless hand cleaner like DL or GOOP.
To Miss Nancy - She hated fishing, but loved a fisherman.
My grandfather's old SB 359-9 still has fish scales on the cork from the last he used it, back sometime in the mid '60s
I aim on keeping it that way
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart
Another vote for Soft Scrub.
Clean cork is the sign of a very sick mind
Most of my rods have some serious mojo going with the cork grips.
(all except my new Winston which will have an accumulation of mojo before the end of summer for darn sure).
Jeff
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