Materials for "naturals"

Post by **bcombs** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:50 am

I just finished my home climbing wall. Thanks to the folks who gave me suggestions on holds, and many thanks to Cromlech on here for hooking me up with a great starter set.

I was curious if anyone put naturals or paint on their home walls? If so, what materials did you use. Of course it's totally unneccessary but I thought it might be fun to play around with. Anyone have any ideas what they use?

Also, for any Cincy natives (or anywhere for that matter) that want to stop by I was thinking of having an open wall session on one or two of the upcoming weekends. PM me for more info. I don't know too many of you outside of the folks that go to RQ so it might be a good chance for me to meet some new climbers from the area. I'll post some pics of the wall later this week.

Brad

Post by **longlegsrule** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:15 pm

I can bring girls...

Post by **discojett** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:48 pm

I can bring girls...

Can you bring some to western Colorado? Please?

Post by **Lateralus** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:52 pm

Not sure what you mean by naturals but, we've used a lot of natural rock and wood for holds. Your imagination is the only limitation for wood, as for rock, we've found a lot of stuff that we were able to drill and mount on the wall. Might be a no brainer but try to find stuff that would be easy to drill and that has one fairly flat side

Post by **bcombs** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:04 pm

Lateralus wrote:Not sure what you mean by naturals but, we've used a lot of natural rock and wood for holds. Your imagination is the only limitation for wood, as for rock, we've found a lot of stuff that we were able to drill and mount on the wall. Might be a no brainer but try to find stuff that would be easy to drill and that has one fairly flat side

I was thinking of the sculpted textures that are often on climbing walls at the gyms. (It's really hard to define the word naturals without using the word naturals.)

Brad

Post by **Feanor007** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:03 pm

don't get slate. Oxford's gym is a vertiacal wall with predomiantly glued in slat holds, they get wicked polished.

Post by **pigsteak** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:09 pm

mix sand in with paint and apply. that works nicely. Nicros sells texture by the gallon, but it is pricey.

Post by KD » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:25 pm

one part well mixed sandblasting sand to one part well mixed acrylic outdoor panit thin a small amount in needed. the better quality the sand the nicer the coating and texture. Be sure to fill the tnut holes with 3/8ths backer rod before application so you dont foul the threads.

Post by **ynot** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:19 pm

Naturals are sort of like a heavy paint fold. Just enough there to edge on. I'm up for giving your wall a test. What end of town are you in? The biggest problem we had with Gingers wall was t nuts that came loose so we had to fix several spinners.
She had it built with several angles but we all seem to gravitate to the steepest section.

Post by **enoch308** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:24 am

What is 3/8ths backer rod? I just went ahead and stuck the T-nuts in by themselves. Is it an extension or something?