Hey all, after reading @Hailey_Phillips thread on cutting up LW sticks it got me thinking about cutting up my XOP sticks. I'm mainly interested in climbing with the one stick method, but I didn't want to carry around a full length XOP stick to get stuck on brush. I was hesitant to actually cut up my sticks in the off chance I ever wanted to re-sell them so I went out and bought a single 1/8" walled aluminum tube (6061-t6) for testing purposes and then stole the hardware from one of my XOP sticks. The hole layout is a little more complicated on the XOP sticks than they are on the LW sticks but hey at least it gave me an excuse to finally buy a dremel tool (seriously how did I make it this long without one?). For the strap I stole some 3/8" notch dryad from one of my primal steps to use as a makeshift rope mod (turned out really well actually). I'll post a follow up picture once I get a chance to paint it this weekend. Depending on how much of a pain it is to climb with the rope mod I might switch out the XOP button for a cam cleat. Thanks for reading!
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Not bad. I actually got ahold of some muddy pros recently and one sticked with them. As for using the rope cam cleat there is no comparison. It's really easy and convenient to use for 1 stick climbing.
Really digging how it turned out, awesome!
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Looks really nice!!!
Quick update on the cut down XOP stick: I went ahead and added a cam cleat to make one sticking easier and then made an aider that loops through the lower stand-off bolt inside the stick. Since it's function is so close to a Muddy pro I'm calling this my XOP pro stick.
If I do anything further to this stick, it'll probably be taking an angle grinder to the ears on the sides of the standoff to allow the standoff to rotate a full 360 degrees. That ways I can turn the standoff inline with the stick body similar to how the LWCG sticks operate (good idea @skyjacker).
If I do anything further to this stick, it'll probably be taking an angle grinder to the ears on the sides of the standoff to allow the standoff to rotate a full 360 degrees. That ways I can turn the standoff inline with the stick body similar to how the LWCG sticks operate (good idea @skyjacker).
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That's a good looking climbing stick... nice work.
Thanks! Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to do with my other three sticks