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Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Michael Hackney
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Date: April 29, 2005 08:19AM
I spent last night packing a fishscale wrap. I am using one of the Gudebrod plastic burnishing tools. It was tough going - the point was almost but not quite small enough to get in between threads. My hands hurt! Anyway, in Clemens book he shows a metal tool with a blunt point. Are these available anywhere? What does evrey one use for packing?
Cheers, Michael Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2005 08:20AM by Michael Hackney. Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: April 29, 2005 08:26AM
There is a handy dandy little packing tool that you can buy at a Sally Beauty Supply store. The thing is a small chrome plated Cuticle Pusher that has a spade foot on one end and a pointed end on the other. It is a good size that can be used on flat chevron edges with the flat end and the thread crossings with the other. Be sure that you take some emory cloth and smooth the edges on the end to prevent blank scratching. The cost for this thing is less than $ 2. They also sell one that has a plastic flexible end. These things coupled with a dental pick are all that I use along with an ice pick for rolling.
Gon Fishn Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Arthur Mayfield
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Date: April 29, 2005 09:05AM
Another option(almost as cheap) is to check out the clay sculpting tools available in the art department of most craft stores. There are a number of different shapes (two per tool), usually mounted in wooden handles and selling in the 3-4 dollar range. These tools are also useful for working epoxy paste (such as when molding a taper to meet a cork grip for the no-winding-check, thread-wrapped superfine look (artist's pallet knives are also useful for working epoxy paste). Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
bill boettcher
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Date: April 29, 2005 09:47AM
You can also shape a popsicle stick. Soft wood, easy to hold and will not harm thread, or blank Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Jason Pritchard
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Date: April 29, 2005 09:50AM
Now I don't feel like such a nerd. I am starting my second rod now but on my first I raided my wife's nail polish bag. I came away with a cuticle pusher for my thread tool.....and here I was thinking that I was a caveman. She was shocked to see it laying under my wrapper along with a good plate covered in tin foil and epoxy! The thing is it worked- really, really, well, just looked odd. Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Anonymous User
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Date: April 29, 2005 10:18AM
What do you think when the check out person at Sallys' sees an old man checking out with cuticle pushers, cutical Tweezerman Nippers, emory boards, nylon nail polish sealant with uV protection, fine glitter, facial treatment loop removal tool, hair shaper handles and Personnal Razor blades. They check out the masking tape stuck to my shoes and shirt, epoxy all down the front of my shirt and metallic thread under my fingernails. Not one of them has had the guts to ask me what I am doing with all that stuff. Bob M. will be in trouble if they ever start taking mail orders!
Gon Fishn Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Grant Darby
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Date: April 29, 2005 10:30AM
And don't forget your local sewing and knitting shop! Knitting needles work too!!. If you want to do the Forhan locking wrap, pick up a small darning dohickey with the little hook at one end. Oh...and pattern marking white pencils....thread spool racks.....Sulky metalics..... Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Frank Persico
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Date: April 29, 2005 10:56AM
HI,
That small cuticle pusher is called an orange stick and you can get them in any drug store and the darning dohickey with the little hook at the end is a corcheting needle available in craft stores, I use one when I do weaves and it picks up threads very well. If any one asks you think about how you can dazzle them with your brillance. Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Michael E Tanner
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Date: April 29, 2005 11:19AM
FYI That darning dohickey can also be used for picking out backlashes in a reel.
not that any of us would get one but you can pass it on to your partners. Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Don Davis
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Date: April 29, 2005 11:52AM
Am I missing something here? I use the rounded portion/back of the burnishing tool. Rubbing the tool in one direction is what packs the thread. I can't imagine picking at individual threads. The plastic Gudebrod works just fine for this purpose. Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Michael Joyce
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Date: April 29, 2005 04:45PM
Billy V set me up with a triangular, pointed stainless steel tool. It was way too sharp, but after some light sanding, its perfect for fine packing. My rodbuilding mentor Roy Brauer, intoduced me to shish kabob skewers (100 for $2). Not only can you BBQ, but you can also pack thread, and mix epoxy, and....... Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Tim Hough
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Date: April 29, 2005 05:05PM
I got all my wrapping hand tools from my dentist. They keep a drawer full of old tools that just sit for a while until they chuck them. They were more than happy to give them away to me. Now, I'm always asking if they have any old stuff I can look at before they throw them.
Ask, the worse they will do is say no. Tim Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Michael Hackney
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Date: April 29, 2005 05:52PM
Thanks folks, that gives me enough ideas to find something useful.
Michael Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
David Boyle
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Date: April 29, 2005 06:50PM
One more to try - fly tying bobbins - the type that have couple of prongs to hold the spool of thread and a hollow tube to poke the thread through. I have one which has a little lip on the end of the tube, and it is brilliant for getting in between threads or pushing them together when required.
Dave Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
lane cobb
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Date: April 29, 2005 09:20PM
I pack with a hard plastic tool similar to a dental pick, used in the high vacuum industry for o-ring removal, along with the standard thread tool. The thrill is not in the kill Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Shanon Hedgecock
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Date: April 29, 2005 11:37PM
geez, all I use is the plastic cap off a ballpoint pen. Guess I'm Low-tech.
Shanon Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Scott VanGuilder
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Date: April 30, 2005 06:46AM
Ya know all those plastic paint brushes from Walmart that ya buy and through away? I save a few and file the ends to differnent shapes for packing. Cheap and don't break thread and I can shape them into anything I want to pack what I need to pack. Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
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bill boettcher
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Date: May 01, 2005 08:48AM
I used to use those Scott, but found that because they were round I would have to turn them every time I picked it up. The popsycle stick was flat and was at the right angle every time I picked it up Go figure? Re: Wrap packing tools - what do you use?
Posted by:
Randy Wilinski
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Date: May 01, 2005 11:37AM
I only used the back, rounded side of a single edge razor blade I used for cutting the thread ends with, for the longest time. Worked for me for more than a couple of decades. Course, I did break down in the past few years and buy a Gudebrod plastic thread burnisher since I had a few bucks laying around unused at the time. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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