I am building my first rod using a spiral wrap using the bumber system. In the article I read it said to use the forhan wrap for the single guides. I looked in the library but I am still wondering if I am doing the wrap coorect. There seems to be gaps at the end of the forhan wrap when I finish. Also would a security wrap work just as well as when you just wrap behind the guide?

Dan; The Forhan locking wrap is easy to do and is well worth the effort. Wrap the guide as normal to the point the guide stem starts to rise off the blank, insert your pull through and make one turn behind the guide as though you were adding security wraps. On the next wrap bring the thread past the guide foot and then wrap it back around the stem of the guide and then complete the turn around the rod. Repeat this two more times and finish with at least one complete wrap around the blank without going around the guide stem. I like to make two extra wraps because it helps hold the tag end of the wrapping thread when I pull it through.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2006 01:04AM by Jim Upton.

Dan, if you have a gap there, you're probably wrapping a little too far up the guide foot before starting the Forhan.

Putter
Williston, ND

So are you saying the locking wraps a like a figure eight pattern going around the blank and then the guide?

Dan; Yes, just do the wrap in a figure 8 and you've got it. Sounds like you might have to start a thread or two sooner from what I unserstood you to say. You don't want to go up the leg of the guide, and don't forget to continue with two or three wraps just around the rod, after the last locking wrap behind the guide too.

Fred Crum
Dixon, Ca.