Nope, not back to the old grind. I'm building a rod using yellow thread wraps on a dark-green blank. I'll spray paint the blank white where the yellow wraps will fall to allow the yellow to "pop" - I have done this before with coated guide feet. This time I'm using REC NiTi snake-foot guides and I would like the white undercoating to cover the NiTi guide feet so the result does not resemble a spotted dog. Any suggestions on how I can put a durable white coating on the REC guide feet?

Testors white should work fine. Any paint that will not be attacked by the CP or epoxy should work. Try just one on a blank scrap and see if you like it.

Thanks, Mike. I am mostly concerned about the adhesion of white paint to bare nickel-titanium alloy and whether or not any special preparation to the NiTi alloy is necessary. I'll try Testors white and test how well it sticks to NiTi alloy.

Make sure the guide foot has no oil on it before applying the paint.

Instead of using Testors paint, mix up a tiny bit of epoxy and color it white with marbling pigment and coat it with epoxy. Epoxy won't attacl epoxy.

Mac

Sounds good, John. I'll try it. Thanks.