Fred Fuller
Moderator Emeritus
For several years I've been using a fiberglass stock sorting stick as a walking staff (I can't legitimately call what I do "hiking"). It's about a half inch in diameter, 52" long, with a golf club grip on one end and a metal ferrule on the other, which I have covered with a crutch tip. Looks like this one but with the tip covered - https://www.sullivansupply.com/cart/tx/p-763-fiberglass-sorting-stick.aspx .
I've been thinking that something like this might make a pretty useful walking stick too. I've been looking at golf club handles and trying to figure out what the largest diameter micarta round I can fit into a generally available golf club handle might be. A walking stick length of micarta (for me, about 38") with a good handle should be pretty useful as a walking stick, and it might make a passable bokken in a pinch as well.
Anyone here ever done this sort of thing, or re-gripped a lot of golf clubs? Seems like it would be reasonably easy to put the appropriate components together to get what I want, but I need to find out what's available that will work together. So far the grips I've found online only go up to about a .60 - .67 (some TaylorMade shafts) core diameter. Am I missing anything?
Thanks for any help...
I've been thinking that something like this might make a pretty useful walking stick too. I've been looking at golf club handles and trying to figure out what the largest diameter micarta round I can fit into a generally available golf club handle might be. A walking stick length of micarta (for me, about 38") with a good handle should be pretty useful as a walking stick, and it might make a passable bokken in a pinch as well.
Anyone here ever done this sort of thing, or re-gripped a lot of golf clubs? Seems like it would be reasonably easy to put the appropriate components together to get what I want, but I need to find out what's available that will work together. So far the grips I've found online only go up to about a .60 - .67 (some TaylorMade shafts) core diameter. Am I missing anything?
Thanks for any help...