do you guys smooth off your inserts or try to glue them in and keep pushing the edges down in different places to try to get them in just right? I don't know if its my finger pitches or what but trying to get them in and even with the hole without cutting them off seems hard.

my proshop sands them off with something. not sure what. anybody know what to use?

how do you all like to do it?

thanks

My pro shop just puts the inserts into the drilled holes and pushes them until they are flush with the surface, as well as fine tuning with orientation for ovals and power grips. Then a "dry test" for the grip and fel is made, and just when everything is O.K. the inserts are fixated with a little of gel super glue at both insert sides to hold them in place - I like the feeling of this solution, because the inserts remain a little flexible and are easy to get out if need be, without much harm to the ball and the insert itself. I also had a ball that had the insert really cemented to the holes, and this had a much different feeling to the touch, and it was a catastrophy when I had to change them after a resufacing (they protruded too far from the ball).
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With the pitches I used in my fingers, the grips would always stick out (sometimes quite a bit).  I came up with a "method" that works quite well.  Take the grip and flip it 180 degrees and insert it into the hole all the way to the bottom (if you wanted to use the lift for instance, insert the grip with the lift side down and at the top of the hole).  Take a pen and trace around the outside of the grip that is sticking out of the ball, flush with the ball surface.  Use a utility knife (or scissors) to trim the grip along the line that was drawn.  Now insert the grips the desired way (in this case, using the lift) and in most cases it will be flush or very close to flush (depending on how extreme the pitches actually are) to the surface of the ball.  

My tiny home shop where I grew up as a kid would just put the grips in as far as possible, then smooth them off with a table-mounted shoe buffer.  Worked well when using ovals... not so well with lifts .

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I took a small screwdriver, bent the tip almost 75 degrees ( you bet I broke several until I got one to bend right) but I put the insert in, lowest side glued first (outside of grip) then pull up under the insert until the top is level with the ball. Glue it and off you go.

BTW, the screwdriver is a great tool to hold back the insert while you put in the glue. Also holding the insert for a couple seconds while the glue hardens.


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i watched norm duke for so many years on a telecast fiddle with the tape and/or cork in his thumbhole.......if that's what it takes to get you ready then so be it.

what I do is push the inserts flush with the hole to the outsides of the inserts that is... which makes the insides lower than the hole. I then glue the outsides and the pull the insides up with some plyers or something, and then glue the insides flush to the top of the hole. I know this dont make much sense the way I said it but u know what I mean....hope this helps...