Regripping question. Hole or no hole?

[basesloaded190]

Bubble where? The grip is pretty tight, so any air will get pushed out. It is not a problem to use the grip you have removed.

I know how its done. Taken thousands off with air. just saying if the air doesn't esacape at the end of the grip for what ever reason it can form a bubble in the grip and when you take it off and want to put it back on another club, you will notice it.

[basesloaded190]

Bubble where? The grip is pretty tight, so any air will get pushed out. It is not a problem to use the grip you have removed.

I know how its done. Taken thousands off with air. just saying if the air doesn't escape at the end of the grip for what ever reason it can form a bubble in the grip and when you take it off and want to put it back on another club, you will notice it.

[basesloaded190]

I know how its done, I've taken thousands off with air. Im just saying if the tube that you are using to cover the grip is slighltly larger than the grip itself so can get a pocket of air stuck in the grip because the air doesn't make its way to the bottom and out the grip. With that pocket of air, when you eventually get the grip off and want to use it again, you will notice that the grip is stretched out and lose where the pocket was.

[wolverine_man]

Extra tape at the end which is tucked into the opening of the shaft. Although, when I had my Betti regripped with a Pingman black out at GG, the more senior club installer took a look at the work that was done before handing it back to me and told the younger guy that the grip was not completely straight. The senior guy had to poke through the hole in the end of the grip and inject some solvent to get the grip right. Dumbass!! I usually do all of my own iron grips, but putters and woods I prefer the shop to do it. That may soon change.

[basesloaded190]

A putter is probably the most difficult grip to get straight, but also the most important grip to get straight. Always make sure its what you want before taking it home. I have seen some terribly croked grips come in and I just shake my head wondering what someone could be thinking when they put that on!

[wolverine_man]

Yeah, I don't do my woods out of fear of messing up the graphite shaft - though I suppose I could do my 7 wood with the steel shaft - and I never do my putter because of the difficulty in getting it straight. Believe me, I putted on the putting green inside of GG and eyed up the Ping logo with one eye closed and all sorts of funny stuff to make sure it was just right. I actually twisted the grip just a tad myself in the store. I fiddled around in this manner for nearly a half an hour. The girl working the checkout lane must of thought I was crazy when I finally walked up with my sales slip, as she was grinning.

[Fourputt]

Yeah, I don't do my woods out of fear of messing up the graphite shaft - though I suppose I could do my 7 wood with the steel shaft - and I never do my putter because of the difficulty in getting it straight. Believe me, I putted on the putting green inside of GG and eyed up the Ping logo with one eye closed and all sorts of funny stuff to make sure it was just right. I actually twisted the grip just a tad myself in the store. I fiddled around in this manner for nearly a half an hour. The girl working the checkout lane must of thought I was crazy when I finally walked up with my sales slip, as she was grinning.

Just out of curiosity, how would you mess up a graphite shaft when regripping it? I've regripped many graphite shafts, even built a full set with graphite, and never had an issue with the gripping process.

[wolverine_man]

I guess I'm afraid of cutting into the graphite with the utility knife. I know there are other ways of getting the grip off and they make a special knife with a curved hook that protects the graphite shafts, but I have not experimented with those yet.

[Fourputt]

I guess I'm afraid of cutting into the graphite with the utility knife. I know there are other ways of getting the grip off and they make a special knife with a curved hook that protects the graphite shafts, but I have not experimented with those yet.

I score the bottom of the grip with the knife, then start to peel it back. It will rip through, then I score it farter up and keep pulling on the grip. I never have to cut all the way through to the shaft itself. I'ts actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

[basesloaded190]

with the knife, while the club is in the vice try cutting on either the right or left side of the shaft, not the top or bottom. That works much better. Even if you do scratch the shaft a little bit, who cares? one, none will see if cuz the grip covers it up, and two, it won't effect the preformace of the shaft either.

[danieldrieberg]

I wrap tape over the distal end. Why? Why not? The tape is generally too long rather than too short.

[iammpspeer]

Makes it a whole lot easier. The pipe you can buy at any hardware store, same goes with the air pistol. The thin straw sized end of the pistol you don't really need, you can use one like

Is it important to use the safety sleeve thing, or can I just shove a air gun in the tip and blow it off?

[Zeph]

I recommend the sleeve, but after a while I took them on and off just as well without. The sleeve is there to prevent blowing up the grip. With a light pressure, though, you can remove and put in grips without it, regulating the pressure with the pistol. If you are throwing away the grip you are removing, it's no problem, no waste anyways. I tested on some old grips and didn't manage to blow any up, the pressure would release through the end of the grip before that happened. It is of course possible though. If the grip is well taped, like it was on my Scotty putter, I advice using a sleeve, since the grip may not let go of the tape until there is some pressure under it. Then it can suddenly pop

You can of course use solvent combined with the compressor to make things slide easier, but I did not find the need for this. Like I mentioned, you don't need to buy the equipment in the Youtube video, any plastic pipe with the proper size works. I found a plastic pipe laying around in the house. You don't need the tube that, on the video, is attached to the pistol.

Find some old clubs to experiment with and you'll soon enough figure out how this works. If it's some clubs you don't use, you can try at first without the sleeve and see how that works out.