I'm sure some of you have tried this but I got such good results that I thought I'd post it here. I'm building a simple but elegant black and gold 1" dia surfrod and wanted a gold/black 3d wrap. I did a sample wrap the usual way, black and met gold underneath with a black top wrap with a dummy thread and didn't get good results. It came out dark and the tiger stripes were kinda plain. I did disort the bottom threads. All threads were size D. I did another sample wrap with the first wrap as usual and then used a size A black thread and a D size dummy thread. That was it so I finished the 9" wrap on the blank today and it is really nice. The stripes zigzag up the blank about 4-5" before turning back down to the begining. Not to mention all the "fisheye stripes" encircled by multiple rows of stripes. Needless to say, I love it, and it's much lighter too so the stripes are really visible. I know it's probably been posted here before but I didn't see it. Hope somebody can use this. It's called the "Kcon 3D Tiger Wrap" LOL! (My handle on the local boards is Kcon)................Kyle

The key is always to use a bottom layer that is very high in contrast - black and gold do not meet that criteria. The article spells this out plainly.

Either way, thanks for sharing your tip on mis-sizing the thread sizes. It may help someone wanting to try that variation.

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Sounds like you struck gold, LOL. If you don't mind, post some pics of that wrap, you've got my curiosity going now

Thanks Tom, I knew it was going to ify so I did a sample ahead of time so I could figure out if it would work, or not. A little experimenting paid off. Steve, my lousey camera may not pick up the stripes, but I will give it a try................Kyle

I believe? it's also suggested to use sz A thread for better results.

DR

It would take alot of size A thread to fill a 1" dia x 9" long butt wrap. Since I'm not getting paid too much for this wrap I couldn't spend too much time on it so I did this easy tiger wrap to save time, but still look good. On 14' surf rods I use size D thread most of the time, unless it's for tournament casting rod..............Kyle

I don't remember the exact figure but I put something like 1- 200 yds, give or take, on a surf rod underwrap once