new golf grips

[paisleyboy86]

hello all,

just replaced my grips in american golf on my 3 and 5 wood. £24 it costs with the grips i liked and major difference. Looking to get all my irons done now. i reckon it could cost a fair bit of money so just seeing what you lot do?

was thinking on giving it a go on my old clubs and doing myself, is this a bad idea? cheers

 

[GreiginFife]

Welcome to the forum.
Re-gripping yourself is easy. Double sided solvent tape and a bottle of white spirit and you are sorted.
Mark the alignment of the old grip on a piece of masking tape before hand and you can't go wrong.

 

[paisleyboy86]

thanks for the welcome and reply. thought it be the best way. Made such a difference to my woods as i have the burners and they were very thin with not much grip.

 

[Jack991]

Is really easy to do it yourself would go for it! recommend getting grips from gamola.co.uk !

 

[One Planer]

Re-Gripping is an easy enough task.

Like Greg says. Make sure you have all the parts to do it you need before you start.

Also, make sure you take into account the butt diameter of your clubs shaft when chosing a grip.

 

[Wayman]

Buy your own grips and do it yourself plenty videos on YouTube showing you

 

[garyinderry]

its childsplay. if you want to take the old tape off once you have the old grip off then my trick is to boil the kettle or bring water the boil on the hobs and use the steam to soften and easily remove the old tape.


if you have ever used a wallpaper steamer it works on the same principle.

 

[Khamelion]

I've regripped a few of my older clubs, dead easy, as has been said, double sided tape, white spirit. When I did mine, fitted the tape, soaked an old rag with whitespirit, gave the tape a quick wipe to lubricate with the spirit, took my grip, put my finger over the butt hole, filled with spirit and then let it drain through the hole back in to the bottle, with both tape and inside of grip lubricated, the grip slid on really easy and it was a doddle to line up.

 

[bigslice]

there is non toxic stuff on the market now instead of white spirit

 

[GreiginFife]

there is non toxic stuff on the market now instead of white spirit

Not meant to drink the stuff Davie... :lol:

 

[One Planer]

Not meant to drink the stuff Davie... :lol:

:rofl:

 

[GreiginFife]

its childsplay. if you want to take the old tape off once you have the old grip off then my trick is to boil the kettle or bring water the boil on the hobs and use the steam to soften and easily remove the old tape.


if you have ever used a wallpaper steamer it works on the same principle.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-...omeGarden_CLV_Cleaning_CA&hash=item257546b113

Perfect for doing the old tape and also for sliding the ferrule back and forth when re-shafting. The precision nozzle is brilliant and mine heats up in less than 2 minutes.

 

[paisleyboy86]

thanks for the input. Ordered some today so will give it a bash. My mate is gonna do the same so we'll try weekend looks simple enough from what you say. he is a mechanic and has compressor gun, is this method recommended? when i see it on you tube they don't seem to replace the tape?

 

[bigslice]

Not meant to drink the stuff Davie... :lol:

how else do you get the liquid into the grip,
my hands flare up to things, think being a plumber has played a part in it

 

[mattdeeks]

Buy the grips and do it yourself. It's easy, as said before plenty of videos on YouTube.

 

[Shakey]

Do check out Karma grips. I think they're excellent; about £2.50 per grip (inc grip tape) when you buy a few at a time. A few people on ebay do them. If you buy more, it might be worth going to them direct (Nordica golf....very nice and efficient peoople to deal with).

Whatever grips you buy, my best advice is insist on 2 inch wide grip tape. It just goes on length-wise, whereas I always make a right Horlicks of winding the thin stuff round and around.

Good luck mate...it really is an easy and satisfying thing to do (and will save you a good few quid).

 

[paisleyboy86]

cheers, what's the worst that can happen?...... i take a swing, left with the grip while my 7 iron fires through the screen of a nice shiny merc haha

 

[Shakey]

cheers, what's the worst that can happen?...... i take a swing, left with the grip while my 7 iron fires through the screen of a nice shiny merc haha

LOL. No once they're on they ain't coming off, believe me.

Do make sure you pour some grip solvent (or white spirit) into the new grip and coat the inside of it thoroughly.

By the way, there's no need to shell out for a rubber grip vice yet: just use a piece of the grip you take off as a 'cushion' fo the vice (i.e. wrap it round the bit of the shaft you're sticking in the vice to protect it)

 

[Shakey]

thanks for the input. Ordered some today so will give it a bash. My mate is gonna do the same so we'll try weekend looks simple enough from what you say. he is a mechanic and has compressor gun, is this method recommended? when i see it on you tube they don't seem to replace the tape?

Looks good for saving the grip you 'blow' off, but like you say...do they use grip tape to put it back on? (If they don't, you'd think it'd slide all over the shop when you swing the club!).

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Big big fan of Gamola and the choice makes it hard to pick a set. I have to admit to being lazy and tend to buy what I want and then pay the assistant pro to fit them.