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first wraps
Posted by: Darin Travis (---.hsd1.wa.comcast.net)
Date: June 18, 2006 12:00PM

Thanks to everyone here for the help and "putter" for the way he tapers his wraps. I really like the look, so I just posted photos of the first three that I have done and woud really appeciate your opinions. Still working on a flat finish, although I believe I finally had it with the rod I'm working on now, until it fell off the table while turning with the final coat on.

Darin Travis

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Re: first wraps
Posted by: David von Doehren (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: June 18, 2006 12:18PM

Your next project might be working on a guard rail.........<)////<

Dave von Doehren
PRRODS......If man built it , man can fix it.and if man built it man can break it !

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Re: first wraps
Posted by: Randy Parpart (Putter) (---.propel.com)
Date: June 18, 2006 12:45PM

Isn't getting the finishing touches on our work an on-going labor of love, though? Sounds like you're having lots of fun decorating those rods up. Keep up the good work, Darin.

Putter
Williston, ND

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Re: first wraps
Posted by: Mike Barkley (---.try.wideopenwest.com)
Date: June 18, 2006 12:59PM

Lookin' Good, Darin. Don't worry, good finishing takes time and practice. If you don't already have it, a ecent issue of Rodmaker has a great "no brai" method of obtaing a perfect finish every time. The biggest mistake that you can make is using too much finish

Mike (Southgate, MI)
If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!!

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Re: first wraps
Posted by: Darin Travis (---.hsd1.wa.comcast.net)
Date: June 19, 2006 12:45AM

Thanks everyone, and I am addicted. clamped the stand down now so that won't happen again.

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