Hell Jack: I notice in my reply that my ISP is still tagging my messages to VFB as [Shaw Suspected Junk Email]. Hopefully you will still receive it.
This is just my opinion only, but I have been wrapping rods since my schooldays 60+ years ago Silk Thread: Used primarily for wrapping bamboo rods because of its esthetics, goes clear when varnished and is traditional. I have 3 cane coarse fishing rods that I wrapped years ago when living in the uk. I wrapped them with silk thread and used even finer Pearsalls’s fly tying silk of the same colour for the intermediate wraps every few inches. The rods were varnished with an oil based varnish and still look pretty good although not used for many years. Some people refer to a thread as silk when it is not real silk. Nylon Thread There are all sorts of threads out there and although they might be referred to as nylon, I’m not sure if they are as there are so many polyesters and similar derivatives. I have a good supply of Gudebrod rod wrapping threads and that is what I use on all my graphite and fibreglass rods. It is stronger than silk, comes in a variety of colours, does an acceptable job and not as expensive as real silk. Neville (Nev) Gosling Greater Vancouver BC Canada > On May 13, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Jack Harford <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. Could someone expound on the pluses and minuses of using Silk or Nylon > thread for wrapping guides on fly rods? > > 2. What type and size of silk thread do you feel looks nice? > > 3. I don't like the look of the No Color Preserver Nylon threads or really > using color preserver at all. Am I just being eccentric or are there others > in this camp too? > > Tight lines, > Jack > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
