Good morning all.Have orderd (3) rootbeer colored blanks.Now I am wondering what would be some good colors for the guide wraps? I,m not to good at matching colors. Any ideas is appreciated.
Done a search came back empty .

Have a great day. < DON >

Don,

Red, Gold, metallic Brown, Red Bronze, Brown/Black, Red/Black, Green/Black, Silver, Black, Tan, light Yellow are some to start with. I've used all these on blanks that color and had them turn out well. You will need to experiment with main wrap and trim wrap colors a bit, but that blank color does a good job of hosting many wrap color combinations.

Joe

Joe Douglas

The Visual Wrap web site has a neat little area where you can place colors on a
guide to see the combinations yourself before touching any thread. Kinda CoOL!

Raymond Adams
Eventually, all things merge, and a river runs through it..

chestnut.. maybe even goldenrod. without color preserver. but then i go for subtlety and understatement with my fly rods.

eric
fresno, ca.

I've seen some rootbeer/brownish blanks lately with metallics in red w/gold accents. Looked very nice.

Jay

Burgundy with metallic copper trim. Or invisible wraps. Or, the same color brown(rootbeer) as the blank with no cp. Ralph

If at first you don't succeed, go fishing, then try, try again.

Donald,this is done on a Mahogany blank that is similiar to rootbeer in color.[www.rodbuilding.org]

Freddwhy (Rapt-Ryte)

Good evening .Thank you for all the replies . Sure alot of posibilities here. Really liked that rod, Fred but that is way over my head at this time.Some day down the line. So I done what Ralph said,first went fishing. Will come back to the wraps later.

<<< Thanks again DON >>>

I second the burgundy and metallic copper. I am doing up a Tiger Eye spin blank right now, using metallic burgundy/metallic copper trims, and it's really popping!