I want to cut my poles me too and Ive seen on NS a thread and they say: Put the ''grip'' in hot water to remove of poles, cut the poles and set back the grip...
Usually if you're local shop is hella tight they'll cut 'em for free. I bought some like $20 dollar lifetime warranty poles from my shop and they were of course too big for even Shaq so they cut em down for free there. But my friends have gone after making no purchase and they cut em.
it's really easy. do it eventhough you think it looks ghetto. Just put your grip in hot water so you can remove it easily. Cut it them where you want. put the grip back in place. BOOM.
What I did was boiled the handles in 7 inches of water for about 3 minutes then used a ski vice to clamp the handle and twisted the pole, releasing the bond of the adhesive and the grip from the shaft.
Yeah, really easy to do. Soak the grips in hot water as mentioned above then yank and pull on them until they come off, one grip took me almost five minutes of constant pulling.
the best way i have done it is heating up the grip with a hair dryer and then mark where you want to cut them and eather use a hack saw or a pipe cuttergood luck
I dissagree, take a pot of water and boil the grips in it for about 30-60 seconds. I have copmosite poles just make sure if you have poles like this you tape the ends your cutting, it keeps them from splintering.