Tiger wraps

[happyhooker]

Awhile back, was rebuilding an old Zebco spincast rod.  Original wraps were true '50s-'60s: black and white variegated over silver Mylar foil.  Had neither the thread nor the Mylar handy.  For the thread, used white and scored black marks on it with a permanent Sharpie as it was being wrapped  Foil was part of a potato chip bag turned inside out.  Pretty fair match for the original.

Liked it enough so that, when I was overhauling a South Bend Neutron spinner I found broken in the trash, I used the same technique, sans the foil.  Black and orange.  The orange came out too dark after all was said and done, but the homey-variegated was OK.

Very lazy tiger.

Frank

[oldmanjoe]

       Does this make any sense? I have a lovely mental image of the process and the result but im struggling to capture that in words.

Story of my life .   Color fade will take some creative thread twisting half way down the rod , may even have to pick up another thread of the dominant color ot make it work ...

[JasonGotaProblem]

After stalling for months and months I finally built the rod I had in mind. I am not thrilled with the tiger wrap but its my first attempt.

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