DIY Carbon Trekking Poles 295g / 10,357oz

Congratulations, Christian. those poles look great, and they are very light. I have not seen hardware like that on telescoping hiking poles before.

Excellent work.

Very nice work. I've actually come across your blog once but I can't read/speak German. Thanks for posting your poles up here. Nice to be able to understand the process.

Sean,
I suggest you download google chrome and then try out his blog. Chrome has a built in webpage translator. It will detect when you stumble upon a page that isn't in your language and ask you if you'd like to translate. It works great and I was able to read his blog (minus the charts).

Hi Guy's

I Never thought that it was such a Great Feeling to be On the trails with lite poles….in fact i Hope if someone want's to Build his own DIY Poles the Photos will help to find your own Great Ideas. So Language doesn't matter.

There are some essential Points that are important if you Imagines such a Project. I think if you Take it to the Top, there are some opportunitys to make it lighter than my poles, Even when you prefer a One Pice Pole a shorter handgrip or u use it without the handloops etc.

Duplon as handle material was a great, Easy to use and pleasant to Hold, the tips are made of normal Steel, and they worked Fine Till now and they are easily to change if they where worn down. The handloops are from normal climbing Rope with a small diameter.

The Carbon tubes are pullwinding tubes, and the weight – price relation is payable. Hand or Machine winded tubes are much more expansive, so it will blown my Budget. The pullwinding tubes are stabil enough, i use a Wall thickness of 1mm. If u want to telescope the poles the major advantage over Hand or machine winded tubes is, that u can finished the pullwinding Tube surface with abrasiere paper, so it will be easily to telescope. Hand or machine winded tubes are often different in Diameter for +/- o,2mm and telescoping doesn't work!

All Parts Hold together with 2k adhesive and Till today everything Works as it should.

Cheers Christian

For anyone doing the same, be careful how you cut your carbon shafts…

Without a 10k RPM+ rig, like a mounted dremel or a commercial carbon tube cutter (maybe a local archery shop will do it for you) cutting the carbon will produce exceess amounts of rather nasty carbon dust and you risk delaminaation of the carbon fibres, as well as weakening the carbon structure.

Always wear a facemask/respirator!

-mox