If you can find out at least what colors the owner likes, you can put them into the rod on the wraps, guide ring color, but wraps??

Bill,
Did that. He doesn't care. I asked if he'd like it to match his truck or boat. He doesn't care. I showed him my thread library. He said "Do what you think I'll like". I'm probably gonna use my go-tos, garnet and silver to match his boat or black and gold to match his truck.

Half jokingly, I asked if he wanted his name on the rod. He said "Whatever you think". Now I know how my wife feels when she asks me what I want for dinner and I tell her "Anything.. whatever you feel like making". lol. It's maddening.

He's a bass pro and knows rods and owns a lot of high dollar off the rack stuff. He just wants a better performing rod that looks just as good.

But since he doesn't have a preference, I'm gonna throw him a curve (pun) and spiral wrap it for him.

He'll love the spiral and whatever else you do with this rod, Mick. My only problem with these projects are that I put nearly twice as much of my time into them.
But I tend to rationalize it by thinking that this is a learning process and they just gave me the chance to learn something by trying something different that I've wanted to get after for a while...

Putter

Randy,
I feel sort of the same way. Jobs like this give me an opportunity to do stuff that other people haven't asked for and stuff I would like to do but isn't my personal style so I haven't done on my own rods. A chance for me to put the great ideas I see on the photo pages to use! A chance to keep things like weaves or stars/t-bird butt wraps honed. Things I don't do too much of these days.

The downside is that I have until spring to get one of them done, which means I have months to be anal about it. No pressure equals bad news for me! LOL

I guess I gotta quote Clinton on that one, Mick: "I feel your pain."