Haven't built a rod for many, many years and the new "3D" dec wraps are new to me and look very interesting - if not complicated. I have a Lamiglass steelhead blank with a diameter in front of the fore grip of .434/~11mm. Looked at Billy Vivona's incredible designs but he tells me the wraps like the 3D Iron Cross/Star, as done by Ken MacNeilly, were on a blank with a 22mm diameter. I can now see why - it takes a lot of threads to transition the colors from dark to light to bring about the dimensional effect, which require more diametrical space. So my question to the forum is - are there any 3D wraps that would look really good on a 11mm blank? (BTW, I plan to purchase Billy's book.) Or am I relegated to straight-forward diamonds, etc.? Not that diamonds aren't good looking, mind you. I've done some great thread work on diamonds. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm doing a split fish on a similar size blank coming along we'll. I have Billy's book amazing book. He also was nice enough to answer my emails reguarding ?'s on the patterns

You can do that wrap on a smaller blank, but it will have less shades and less threads per color. SO if he used 6 or 8 of one color, you could use 3 or 4. Here is a 3D Star I put on an 8mm blank: [www.rodbuilding.org]

Billy, On the "Screwdriver Wrap," how many colors did you use? Madeira - do you separate individual threads from the yarn or use it straight off the spool? BTW, I have your book on the way to me. Looking forward to it!



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/27/2013 07:20AM by Phil Hageman.

You could also look at "3D" boxes.

Chris Richer
Iroquois ON