A customer asked me to put a hook helper on his St. Croix Legend Extreme rod. Looking at the thread on a guide it appears almost translucent . You can see the guide foot through it. Has anyone repaired one of these and would know what brand of thread and color is used by St. Croix? I have tried to match it with all the teal and green I have and nothing comes close

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Thanks for any help on this.

Tom
Bel Air Maryland

Contact St. Croix, they will tell you the thread they use. The reason it looks translucent is that they did not use CP.

Hello Tom.

I agree with Phil, it is probably just plain white thread with no CP.

However it won't hurt to check with St. Croix.



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Bob,

New Bern, NC.

Thanks fellows that is what I will do. Just thought I'd check here first in case anyone had already done one.

Tom

If you find out, could you post it here so the rest of us will know, please?

Well I spoke with the customer service department and here is what he said and didn't say. I asked for the color, size and manufacturer of the thread on the Legend Elite rods. He said the rod used Green / Blue Dun the green was A and the blue was B . He did not know the manufacturer of the thread. He didn't know what that all meant as he was reading it form a chart. Although he tried to be more helpful I guess they don't get a lot of calls about thread. So now I have to figure out what it is and where to find it.

Tom

Well I spoke with the customer service department and here is what he said and didn't say. I asked for the color, size and manufacturer of the thread on the Legend Elite rods. He said the rod used Green / Blue Dun the green was A and the blue was B . He did not know the manufacturer of the thread. He didn't know what that all meant as he was reading it form a chart. Although he tried to be more helpful I guess they don't get a lot of calls about thread. So now I have to figure out what it is and where to find it.

Tom

Fish hawk has a "blue dun".

Hello Tom.

If he is right the Green would be on the bottom and the Blue Dun on top, if they follow the usual A under B.
Finding a size B should be possible but if you can't you will be in a bit of a scrape because you would then have to use another A or a D thread instead of the B.
Call Swampland and see if they can get you some Blue Dun in size B.

It's kind of hard to tell the colors in the post, but it looks like the darker color is on the bottom, hard to say though.
Just Green though no spring, medium, dark, or anything, just Green... Hummmm!!

Whatever you do I would try it on a scrap blank or a dowel painted the same color as your Blank before putting it on my good blank.
Any way you do it still no Color Preserver.




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Bob,

New Bern, NC.

Thanks Bob. I'll give it a go with no CP. Yes no shade of green? I asked and he said that's all It says. I didn't want to push the issue. If I were going to remove a guide I would have had a better look at the thread but all I was doing was adding a hook keeper.

Tom

Bel Air, Md.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2014 10:33PM by Tom Wewerka.

This may be a little off the actual topic, but being a "newbie" I read all threads to see if I can learn anything. In his reply to the original question, Robert Guist, states in part:

"Green would be on the bottom and Blue Dun on top, if they follow the usual A under B."

Could someone explain that for me? Does it mean that a thread being used as an overwrap, is normally a larger diameter, than the thread it is covering? If so what would the normal combinations be? For instance if the underwrap is size A could you use a size D if size B wasn't available?

Regards

Geo Miller

Hello Geo.

Yes you can, the thing is if you put a smaller size thread on top of a larger thread it would dig into the larger threads and be hard to make it look good.

But if you wanted the look of a larger thread under smaller thread, you could put the large thread down and epoxy it, let it cure then put the smaller one on top of that.

You could also put the large thread down, put CP on it, epoxy it let it cure and put the guide on with the smaller thread without CP and the top color will become translucent and you will see a slightly darker shade of the bottom color.

Hope this helps.


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Bob,

New Bern, NC.

Bob,

Thank you much, now I understand the reasoning.

Geo M

Hello Geo.

Your Welcome.

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Bob,

New Bern, NC.