Tony: I think that you should post your method so that we can all learn & take note. After all, it is very akin in many ways to fly tying. If you are too modest however, please let me know because I am sure that I can learn something.
Neville (Nev) Gosling Greater Vancouver BC Canada > On May 13, 2015, at 5:19 PM, 'Anthony Spezio' via VFB Mail > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jack, > I wrapped my first rod in about 1947 with Silk thread. I started wrapping > Glass and then Graphite rods with Nylon. Only used Color Preserver on very > few rods as it was a real pain in the butt if you did not get the wraps > totally soaked. If not totally soaked dark spots would show up if using > varnish. Flex Coat is an Epoxy finish that does not give you that problem > with Nylon. The past 17 years I have been making bamboo rods and use only > silk on them with a varnish finish and no CP. I like the translucent look of > the wraps. Doing this will change the original color of the thread. It will > make it darker or a totally different color. > I think all color preserver now is water base, in the old days that was not > so. It was mostly Shellac base. I still have some of that on the original > bottles. > I don't want to bore anyone here on my method of finishing wraps but if you > want to know what I do, feel free to contact me off list. > Is this bamboo or Graphite you are asking about. > Tony Neville (Nev) Gosling Greater Vancouver BC Canada -- -- 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.
