Hi Guys and gals,

Has anyone use the 'Premium Japanese' silk thread from angler's workshop? I just ordered some to try out and I wanted to hear what others though of it.

I have used fishhawk silk before, but I wasn't crazy about it. It gave me the same look as nylon but was harder to work with. The thread made more fuzzies than nylon and wanted to fray at the put under. It also wasn't as stroke.

Is this stuff any different? There are some colors that I want that I can't get in nylon so I'll use them anyway.

Thanks,
Rick

Used it in a butt-wrap a couple af years ago and liked it alot. It layed very flat and the thread blended together very well as though it was a mat almost couldn't see the individual threads. It was the belly portion of a fish pattern and turned out very nice.

Hi Rick,

I've used it quite a bit, and find it very nice. The only silk I think is nicer is the Pearsall's, but their color selection is somewhat limited. Of course, take this with a grain of salt, because I only use silk threads and have almost no experience with nylon.

Harry Boyd

Harry,

Having seen most all of the pictures on your site, I'd say it is good stuff.

You don't by chance have a picture of the granger green or the antique gold on your site do you? Those are the two frontrunner colors for my next rod (11'9" 6/7 wt switch rod). I'm using a black ash burl insert, so I thought the gold might work nicely, but I also like the green color. We'll see what they are when they get here.

Thanks,
Rick

I use it quite a bit on my graphite rods. I like how it blends in well with the graphite, so as to virtually disappear. They have a "sea green" color that is a perfect match for Sage SP blanks (and the older Forecast). When I went a thread that will be a dead-on match for the blank, I always look for the silk because it becomes so clear when hit with epoxy.

I've never used it with a color preserver, so I can't say how it compares to other silk threads with that sort of application.

Bob

Hi Rick,

I haven't used the Granger Green, which is really a kind of yellow-olive and VERY hard to find. Here's a shot of the Hunter Green #030
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I use quite a bit of the antique gold from Pearsall's. Here's a shot of that:
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Here's another:
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Two or three caveats. First, I don't use any color prerever. The thread becomes almost perfectly transparent. The color of the blank shows through readily and greatly affects the final look. Second, these photos have probably been slightly tweaked with Photoshop. Though the colors will be very close to actual all computer screens are different. Finally, remember that I'm finishing with varnish which has a natural amber tint to it. Epoxy doesn't add the color that varnish does.

Harry