Originally Posted by
TimmyT
Thanks, guys, for the support and kind words. The old putter sounds like the easy thing to do. What I made is very much like one of those mini golf putters.
In my effort to figure out how to do this, I contacted Mark Bulgier who did something similar recently. Because it was an experiment, he used one of his lower quality C clamps. After 2 frames, it started to get crunchy. My goal was to use the vise, but there isn't enough clearance.
How is your C clamp fairing, and how many frames have you done? I'm curious because I was thinking of going that route. I have at least one more frame to do.
Funny you should ask. I've done two frames, the first was an 86' Rock hopper, this was for practice. The second was a Bruce Gordon Hikari that I'm converting to 650b. Yes, the cheap C-Clamp is getting pretty wonky. My next crimping tool will be made out of a large pair of Vice-Grips.
Cheers,
Chris