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 > <vfb-mail@googlegroups.com> 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 vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
