Modular polo mallet head design

am i missing something here...£15???

oi shins, shut it and update the polo today thead

Ha! funny guy

dun.

oh yeah. any spares caps todd?

Nope but I'm gonna order a few more as the only order I didn't fulfill was my own!

hah! well if you do an order, would you get 2 pairs of caps for me?

will do.

Mike, on another note, can we try and source some wicked high quality bamboo like the stuff on your mallet? I really want to try it, so fucking light it's nuts!

Yeah, Vidal and I have already said we'd be up for taking a few metres each.

Mike, on another note, can we try and source some wicked high quality bamboo like the stuff on your mallet? I really want to try it, so fucking light it's nuts!

5 x 3meter poles at 20/25mm diameter (like mine) = £30 (2 quid per meter/mallet)

or

50 x 3meter canes at 16/18mm diameter (similiar to ski poles) = £42 (app. £.30 per meter/mallet)

As for 'wicked high quality' bamboo. I can't seem to find any UK suppliers that grades their bamboo. Apparently there is a big difference in grades and it comes down to silica in the soil which shows itself as brown dots in a cross-section of pole.

yep reading exactly the same shit... suppliers that grade in uk are very hard to come by.

need right tools too really fine tooth saw.

I used a hacksaw. I don't think that would work so well on the solid bits though. I'll gladly get the right saw and cut to measure the poles.

Yeah, Vidal and I have already said we'd be up for taking a few metres each.

I need 2 X 3 metre lengths I guess...

Bamboo thread here:
http://www.londonfgss.com/thread22297.html#post705211

Lucky Heads HDPE

Mike - 1x60mm 5.5" single cap
Buffalo Bill - 3x60mm 5.5"double cap
Otters - ?x50mm 5.5" double cap (I think that's what you're using)
Chan - 2x60mm 5.5" (one single cap and one double cap)

Lucky Heads HDPE

Mike - 1x60mm 5.5" single cap
Buffalo Bill - 3x60mm 5.5"double cap
otters - 2 x (2" X 5.5") both with 2 caps (50mm)
Chan - 2x60mm 5.5" (one single cap and one double cap)
dt - 2x60mm 5.5" double cap

Lucky Heads HDPE

Mike - 1x60mm 5.5" single cap
Buffalo Bill - 3x60mm 5.5"double cap
otters - 2 x (2" X 5.5") both with 2 caps (50mm)
Chan - 2x60mm 5.5" (one single cap and one double cap)
dt - 2x60mm 5.5" double cap
dante - 1x60mm 5.5" single cap

Anymore?

There's still a day's work to do at the drill press before this batch is ready for shipping. But I wanted to report on the weights. Amazingly, the HDPE weighs LESS than the ABS!
2" X 5 1/2" X 2 caps 79g
2" X 6 X 2 caps 84g
2 3/8" X 5 1/2" X 2 caps 119g
2 3/8" X 6 X 2 caps 134g
2 3/8" X 5 1/2" X 1 cap 125g
2 3/8" X 6 X 1 cap 139g
The single cap, "BJ" models weigh more than their 2 cap counterparts of the same length because I only drilled out the cap side. I figured balance was more important than a few grams off the total. According to my no too terribly scientific test, the holes I did drill will mean that the mallet won't fall towards the capped side while you're trying to do something else with it during a game.

Go on then, you twisted my arm :-)

Lucky Heads HDPE

Mike - 1x60mm 5.5" single cap
Buffalo Bill - 3x60mm 5.5"double cap
otters - 2 x (2" X 5.5") both with 2 caps (50mm)
Chan - 2x60mm 5.5" (one single cap and one double cap)
dt - 2x60mm 5.5" double cap
dante - 1x60mm 5.5" single cap
Khorn - one: 2"x5.5 double cap

Thanks.

Khorn: 2" is the skinnier pipe like the ABS that was recently ordered through Gabes.
Just trying to make sure we're all on the same page here, these measurements are outer diameter.

Yeah, I want to try the smaller pipe, but for various reasons have been thwarted!

Also have the caps coming from todd, they're the larger size right?

Todd's caps fit on the 1.5 internal diameter ABS ordered by Gabes, it's similiar size to the 2" heads from Lucky. The outer diameter of Todd's caps is a little over 2 inches I think.

mike, it's 1.5" outer diameter.

no dude, it's 1.5" inside diameter. technically, your grey stuff is 41m. but the outside is identical to what is sold as 1.5". both are measured from the inside. the outside on all of them is 1 7/8"/48m.