Mark Fisher
Registered: March 2005
Location: Broken Hill, N.S.W, Australia
Posts: 1,829
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Really nice wraps Doc. I like the way you did these and the tie off's are a killer.
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Fred Yarmolowicz
Registered: March 2005
Location: Brick(Central) NJ
Posts: 565
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14 repeats to 15 repeats.Different shade of purple.
Sweet wrap Doc!!!
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Ellis Mendiola
Registered: March 2005
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 648
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mark blabaum
Registered: June 2006
Location: Southwest - Wisconsin
Posts: 1,321
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Beautiful wraps Doc. I think the owner of the rods will be very pleased with them.
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Jorge Pozzobon
Registered: May 2007
Location: Passo Fundo - RS - Brasil
Posts: 1,147
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,972
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You made it difficult by not giving up the close up view capability. As mentioned, purple is differnt, adn teh bottom has one more repeat, it's difficult to tell if you used a darker shade of Gold (Old Gold?) for the bottom wrap. Another difference is the top rod starts with white and the bottom starts with purple. Another one is how the patterns overlap, on teh top rod teh white going UP the rod crosses over teh white going down, while th purple was wrapped tip to butt then back to tip. Same holds true for the bottom rod, but with the colors switched. Doc, extra points for wrapping a band of like 20 threads, I assume.
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James Labanowski
Registered: March 2005
Location: Oxnard, California
Posts: 2,083
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Fri July 13, 2007 10:35am
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As I have always said Billy, nothing slips past you(you have the best eyes in the business. Sorry my picture taking lately is not up to par. I need to start isolating the subjects more. You got it all Billy. The gold is the same and it isnt white it is 619 NCP Gudebrod more like a pale lavender. I was trying to be trickey and mess some up with optical stuff. The shades of purple were not intended. I ran out of one spool of 468 plane and the next one(in the same box) was a bit different. The wrap is done in bands and the order is the same but as you caught the colors are switched but I wanted them both to end at the tip end with the purple. What I was after was it to look much simpler than it was. Sure it aint tough but the person not looking deeply into it wont catch the switch because they are both the same length. I will try to do something a bit more intricate next time - I wanna keep my membership in the NERBS.
Fred was right too but didnt pick up on the switch.
The tiger wrap ties in really well with everything too. Someone is getting a hell of a surprise.
Thanks everyone
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Michael Joyce
Registered: March 2005
Location: Central MA
Posts: 1,540
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Lifetime membership Doc (I just elected myself the NERBS membership chairman General..lol) I almost did this on a recent rod, I like the woven band look about it...are those weaves in the split grip???
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James Labanowski
Registered: March 2005
Location: Oxnard, California
Posts: 2,083
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Yep Michael they are. They are my eagle head in the flag
[ link ] I think it is soo cool when I can do this stuff but it didnt turn blue, Why? oh well back to the drawing board. When we going to make our movie "Revenge of the NERBS" LOL
HEY it did, it did. YEAH !!!!
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Dillon Hee
Registered: October 2007
Location: Singapore
Posts: 22
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Wed October 10, 2007 2:16am
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Amazing, the wrap almost looks 3 dimentional. Almost looks like a purple ratan cane LOL!
This coming from a Singaporean LOL!
Great stuff
Dillon
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lori friske
Registered: May 2006
Location: Corpus Christi,Texas
Posts: 76
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Mon October 15, 2007 6:50pm
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Absolutely BEAUTIFUL! You REALLY inspire me! Thank you for bein such an EXCELLENT mentor and friend! Simply Gorgeous!
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