{"id":1357,"date":"2020-05-25T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2020-05-25T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:28:11","slug":"short-tubes-long-tubes-and-rather-a-lot-of-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2020\/05\/25\/short-tubes-long-tubes-and-rather-a-lot-of-cork\/","title":{"rendered":"Short tubes, long tubes and rather a lot of cork!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While we have rather a few of the original Sexyloops cordura tubes for 7\u20196 four-piece rods, due to \u201can order error in our favour\u201d, I thought it best if we had some aluminium tubes as well! Interestingly, despite what many people think, the cordura tubes are actually the more expensive! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/7ED98C14-4791-4D15-BA9D-15C3ADA12C54-1024x603.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/7ED98C14-4791-4D15-BA9D-15C3ADA12C54-1024x603.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/7ED98C14-4791-4D15-BA9D-15C3ADA12C54-300x177.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/7ED98C14-4791-4D15-BA9D-15C3ADA12C54-768x452.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/7ED98C14-4791-4D15-BA9D-15C3ADA12C54-1536x904.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/7ED98C14-4791-4D15-BA9D-15C3ADA12C54-1200x707.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/7ED98C14-4791-4D15-BA9D-15C3ADA12C54.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We also have some new cork &#8211; apparently this is around 2\/3rds of our current cork supply &#8211; if there is any cork left in Portugal then I would be surprised! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/cff23f0a-3cd8-4410-9cbc-a37e5945034c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/cff23f0a-3cd8-4410-9cbc-a37e5945034c.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/cff23f0a-3cd8-4410-9cbc-a37e5945034c-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/cff23f0a-3cd8-4410-9cbc-a37e5945034c-768x542.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/4234b2b1-6246-4c99-8e06-5a77b216d97c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/4234b2b1-6246-4c99-8e06-5a77b216d97c.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/4234b2b1-6246-4c99-8e06-5a77b216d97c-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The more observant amongst you will notice the long grips; these are for the HT12 that is still undergoing rigorous testing! In fact the working model is currently heading to Gary in Florida having been &#8220;tested&#8221; by Tim in Australia (and all around the world) so far. Tim will get a new one with the new longer grips, since this is what he asked for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1011\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/HT12_edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/HT12_edit.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/HT12_edit-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/HT12_edit-768x265.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The HT12 is very interesting and I have Sakari and his Finnish friends to thank for the &#8220;two butt&#8221; concept. It&#8217;s been a big part of our testing, ever since Sakari tried to pull my arms off at the last world championships! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, here is a quick tube comparisons: \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/tubes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/tubes.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/tubes-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-content\/uploads\/tubes-768x347.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers, <a href=\"mailto:paul@sexyloops.com\">Paul<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we have rather a few of the original Sexyloops cordura tubes for 7\u20196 four-piece rods, due to \u201can order error in our favour\u201d, I thought it best if we had some aluminium tubes as well! Interestingly, despite what many people think, the cordura tubes are actually the more expensive! We also have some new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/2020\/05\/25\/short-tubes-long-tubes-and-rather-a-lot-of-cork\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Short tubes, long tubes and rather a lot of cork!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sexyloops.com\/htoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}