MYOG Trekking pole for my Grandson
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I just got done making a trekking pole for my Grandson, he's only 5 years old and they don't make nice poles for really young/short people. That's were Grampa comes to the rescue, that's what Grampa's are for, right. I went to my local Dick's sporting goods store and picked out the cheapest graphite gulf club shaft they had $12.99. It needed to have a tip diameter of .370 which this one did, for about 6" before it started to tapper up to the top where the hand grip would go, perfect! I also ordered 2 tips from GG, (thanks guys for the fast shipping) the I.D. of the tips were a little different than the O.D. of the pole tip, but not enough to make it a problem. I cut the pole to length, 28", installed the tip with no glue, it was, shall we say, a tight fit! Then I cut the gulf club handle to the length I wanted. I cut the bigger part of the grip off so his small hands could grip and hold the pole. I need to go to the hardware store tomorrow to get some addhesive to glue the grip on, and its done. I don't know the weight, but it's lighter than my Titianum goat pole. Total cost around $20.00 getting to see my Grandson use it for his first hike next weekend PRICELESS!!!
Hi Jordan, I made the trekking pole for my Grandson mainly so he would fell like he was one of the guys. I just added a cool feature for him that might help him get to sleep easier in the forest. For me, this was just about the cool factor, and to see the look on my Grandsons face when I give him his first trekking pole, hopefuly he will pass it on to his brother. I added a light at the top, it was one of those Life Gear glow lights that I bought somewhere for a dollar. I cut off the tube just below the threads, which left only the light body, and the threaded part. I then glued the threaded part to the trekking pole so I could attach the light body, this way when the batteries die you can unscrew the light body and replace the batteries.
Another cool feature is that you could stick the pole in the ground, turn on the light, that way if you were off somewhere cooking dinner in the pitch dark, or getting up to got to the bathroom you would know exactly where your tent was. If you take the pole wuth you, you always have a light when you need it.
Jack
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