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Help choosing colors
Posted by: Austin Shaw (---.princeton.edu)
Date: November 13, 2018 02:54PM

Hi everyone

Working on a "gunmetal" color CTS blank and am struggling to decide what color wrap to go with. I anticipated it to be more of a charcoal color and was going to use a dark red wrap but it has more brown and olive in it.

I'm now leaning towards dark brown or black wraps with silver accents, but wanted to hear out some other ideas. I can't seem to figure out how to post a photo of the blank...

Thanks!

Austin

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Re: Help choosing colors
Posted by: roger wilson (---.hsd1.mn.comcast.net)
Date: November 14, 2018 12:34AM

Austin,
I wrapped a bunch of Gunmetal blanks. I normally like to match the main thread wraps to the color of the blank. However, I was unable to find the perfect color match for the blank.

So, after trying a bunch of colors, I decided that the simplest and easiest thing to do was to use a black main wrap and then use a trim wrap of my choice. I mainly use a silver metallic, often with a shade of blue metallic.

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I personally would not use brown, because I think that brown clashes with the gun metal color.

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