ESP Ronnie Clips £5.45

Product Information

The new Quick Change Ronnie Clips and Tungsten Sleeves were born out of my enthusiasm for using the Ronnie Rig which started a few years ago, and a limitation I felt the rig had, which led to improvisation and improvement.
The evolution
I have always preferred to construct the hook section of the Ronnie with shrink tube over the eye of the hook and the crook of the swivel, as is convention. I favoured this over a kicker sleeve or silicone tube, because the shrink tube gripped the hook more securely and allowed it to be set at an aggressive angle with no possibility of that being compromised on the cast, or on impact etc.




Originally, I used 2.4mm shrink tube, which everyone else advocated, extending the tube down over the swivel barrel. This seemed okay at first, but the shrink tube would be a bit baggy, shall we say, and not as tight as I would like, so I soon changed to the finer, 1.6mm tube, which naturally shrunk down much tighter and held everything in a vice-like grip. I also terminated the tube flush with the top of the swivel barrel to help optimise rotation. I was much happier with this set-up and would tie the ring on the swivel directly to a boom of Tungsten Loaded. Rather than moulding putty around the shrink tube as was the done thing, I preferred to roll a small piece between my thumb and finger and pass it through the ring, before then moulding it back around the knot.