Dry tooling holds

Any one have the 5 or 10 piece Nicros/iceholdz dry tooling sets? If so, how are they on a 15 deg or 40 deg wall? Any other good options for those two angles? I have half a dozen ice holdz already. (the swing in kind)

Morning bump?

i have never used the nicros stuff but campus strips work really great. just buy a bunch and cut them into 3-4in strips. i used them this spring in a bouldering cave with 10-45 deg walls. just screw them directly into the wall.

I bought dense foam archery targets (not target blocks or animal shapes, just 2 inch thick foam) and cut them into 10by10 pieces, then used one bolt and washer, and some screws also with washers. They hold up pretty good for the value. Cut 4 from one 20 by 20 target, which cost only 19.95 at Dicks sporting goods last fall.

Look for old holds on Ebay. you can modify them with a drill
morganic holds are pretty good for drytooling and are supposedly stronger than other holds.

scrap wood works great and mending plates are flippin awesome.

Thanks guys. I have plenty of holds to use, I was just wondering if the DT specific holds out there are worth the money. Guess I'll just have to be the guinea pig!

If you ended up buying the Nicros dry tooling holds, did you like them?

Chris Plesko wrote:Thanks guys. I have plenty of holds to use, I was just wondering if the DT specific holds out there are worth the money. Guess I'll just have to be the guinea pig!

We have them on the 20 degree wall and they work okay. I'm not super impressed with them though, my husband has managed to break at least one.

Things like hunks of wood are okay, but offer far more security than almost anything you'll find outside. Regular holds will degrade over time, but worth while using if they're positive enough and they're not your favorite hand holds. We have also bolted actual rocks to the wall (hard to drill the hole without cracking them, but it's possible) which are nice to use.

Atomik makes very durable holds for dry-tooling they can pour them in different "feels" and colors for you...

atomikclimbingholds.com/ice…

RobC2 wrote:Atomik makes very durable holds for dry-tooling they can pour them in different "feels" and colors for you... atomikclimbingholds.com/ice…

Cool, have you tried these? Do they use a different compound to make the holds?

They use PU. My gym is full of these...

+1 on the dry tooling Atomiks. I have several o these in my system board and they're very durable.

Only actually broken one Atomik hold and that was when a guest popped off one hold and on the way down clipped another knocking a chunk off.

Otherwise they are damn near indestructible!

They used Atomik holds on the comp' wall at the Bozeman Ice Festival this past December...

Awesome, thanks everyone.

Good afternoon gentlemen. I am the owner of Atomik Climbing Holds. What we do for dry tooling is either pour the holds to feel like soft mossy ice or hard ice. All you need to do to get that service is ask in Special Requests during checkout. Say something like "please pour the 12 patinas in the color light blue and to feel like hard ice" kind of thing. Hope this helps. No extra charge for this service.

^Boom!! -now there's some good service!

I was just tooling on my wall last night and am about to hop out of bed to go back for more!

Atomik holds are pretty crunchy...

I'm planning to build a woody in my garage this spring and am just beginning to survey the marketplace. In addition to Atomik I see another half-dozen vendors or so: Spire, IceHoldz, etc. Looking for advice in 2020 as to what works well. Also looking for advice on how to pad the garage floor (thinking old mattress, but that's sure to get filthy quick). thanks

Skip the IceHoldz 

mark55401 wrote: I'm planning to build a woody in my garage this spring and am just beginning to survey the marketplace. In addition to Atomik I see another half-dozen vendors or so: Spire, IceHoldz, etc. Looking for advice in 2020 as to what works well. Also looking for advice on how to pad the garage floor (thinking old mattress, but that's sure to get filthy quick). thanks

If you have the money get the TopPoint holds, specifically the intellect holds