Something chewed the cork butt off one of my rods. My uncle used to tell me the story of a porcupine chewing the cork off of someone's rod so that is the likely perpetrator. Haven't ever used Eva and was wondering if I could just get a short Eva butt and squeeze it on?

Rats will also do it.

Robert,
Pretty simple.
Grab a pair of slip joint pliers.
Open to the larger size. Use the pliers to tear off the rest of the cork butt.

Then, use heat and a straight edged razor blade to scrape off any remaining glue left on the butt. Hold the razor blade at 90 degrees to the blank when scraping to avoid cutting the fibers of the blank.

Then, take 1/2 inch wide masking tape and leave 1/8th or 1/16th inch between the rows of wrapping, increase the size of the blank butt up to the reel seat, so you have a uniform diameter from the butt of the rod to the reel seat.

Then, obtain or make another rear grip in your choice of materials. Ream out the grip so that the full length of the grip interior is the same size as the arbored up butt of the blank.

Mix up a batch of epoxy, put it on the inside of the grip and the outside of the rear grip including over the tape, insuring that you get glue in between each row of tape wrapping to encapsulate the tape and slip the grip in place. Glue on a butt cap and clean up any excess glue before it sets up with DNA and you will be good to go.

If you happen to have an appropriate grip on hand, you should be able to do the entire grip replacement in under 30 minutes.

Good luck

eva would work just fine

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Wi.

It's only three pieces of cork or an inch and a half butt. They sell a Eva butt that's an inch and 7/8 and wondering if I could just stretch it over the end of the blank and If I had to choose between the porcupine and the rat I'd take the porcupine.

Mice also chew cork.

Yes you can use an Eva fighting butt. Just remove the damaged butt, clean things up a little and install the new fighting butt. Not sure what’s the diameter of the blank nor the ID of the fighting butt, but I assume you will need to increase the ID of the fighting butt. If the hole in the fighting butt goes completely through it, you can ream it until it fits, then add your butt cap and glue everything in place. If the hole does not go all the way through the fighting butt you can enlarge the hole by using a series of drill bits, Start with a bit that fits very tightly in the hole and turn it by hand to remove Eva, making sure you don’t drill completely through. Then take the next larger bit and repeat. Do this until the fighting butt snuggly fits over the end of the blank then glue it in place. The reason for using a set of drill bits is that this procedure keeps the hole centered. If you want to use a winding check check use the Vinyl rubber type, they will stretch to fit ove the end of the blank, just make sure you get it in the right orientation, (ie. not upside down). This procedure is very easy to do, and works very well.
Norm

There is another pretty easy method if the damage is such that it can be filled with a mix of epoxy and cork dust. If so, fill the chewed out portion, sand to match the original contours, then use a Winn grip wrap to cover the whole grip, and it's better than new.

Small dogs named Poncho will also cause this problem...

Chris

just about any rodent will chew cork mice, chip monks squirrels,rats, boles, etc, etc .

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Wi.

As usual, thanx for the help guys. Be vigilant and watch out for porcupines although I've never seen one around these parts.

Get enough old boraxed egg goo on your cork and everything, including wives will leave your rod alone.

It's not the cork that attracted the mice, etc.- likely they smelled dried fish slime on the grip.

Thanx norman, the drill bits idea worked great. I got a tapered Eva butt, easily reamed it out and slid it on from the bottom slick as a whistle, it fit tight and didn't even need a winding check.