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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DC on September 12, 2015, 10:04:34 pm

Title: Cork handles
Post by: DC on September 12, 2015, 10:04:34 pm

How do you finish cork handles? Oil would just soak in forever, wouldn't it?

Title: Re: Cork handles
Post by: TimBo on September 12, 2015, 11:44:23 pm

Tru Oil works.  Check out some fly rod building forums - they have a lot of good options for sealing cork. 

Title: Re: Cork handles
Post by: Blaflair2 on September 13, 2015, 06:19:47 pm

Id just cover it in super glue.

Title: Re: Cork handles
Post by: steelslinger on September 14, 2015, 03:31:37 pm

Iuse a slightly thinned tight bond 3 do a few coats then tru oil over that.

Title: Re: Cork handles
Post by: Carson (CMB) on September 14, 2015, 10:09:45 pm

I do as steel steelslinger, or do the same with shellac. I like to apply heavy coats of thin shellac between sanding the cork with progressively finer sandpapers. This fills the voids nicely.