I used my last name this time!

Dont know how / when I did it, but somewhere in stripping off my first attempt at finishing this blank, I nicked the butt section. Not deep, just surface - 1/16th inch across, and I dont beleive it will pose any sort of structural problem.

However, you can see well into the lighter colored fibers. I am wondering the best way to fill in the nick, cover it, or otherwise mask it, short of a signature wrap / beauty wrap over the area.

Does anyone have experience with this? Thanks for your help in advance!

Sean,
Do an invisible repair wrap over the scar. A white or pale yellow silk in 3/0 if you have it. Don't do the wrap real tight and flood it with warm thinned spar making sure there is total and complete penetration with the first coat. Then you can apply additional coats as you desire. Properly done the wrap will just about disappear. From the description of your damage, a 1 inch wrap ought to do fine.

That's a tough one. If you don't have something planned for that area you may have to put something there. A narrow thread band, a trim, something to cover it. I can't imagine how to paint or cover just a small area like that. I'm afraid the coverup would look worse than the nick.

Maybe this would be a good time to perform a feather inlay!

Excuse me, I see this is a bamboo rod. The transparent wrap or some coloration from a pigment pen and thin coat of varnish could do the trick.

I would just do a decorative wrapp .. .. Thanks Daves Rods