Hello everyone, I hope you’re all enjoying the holiday season!

I seem to be having trouble finishing the tie off on my dragon scales… how does everyone here do it? Do you apply a thin coat and then apply the trim bands at the end? I always have the threads cutting between my dragon scale Metallic threads.

Any insight is very appreciated!

My metallic overwrap will be in A thread. Cut off the tags of the under wrap scales a bit before the finish and complete the wrap, wrapping tight and burnishing. The tie offs are done in C. If I wrap tight enough with the metallic, the C won't slip in. But......I like to do inlays in the tie off and will often put a light coat of finish over the scale wrap first. I found that messing around with several different colors on the inlays just results in what you experienced.

Hey Grant,

Thanks for the insight. It seems like I'm going to just have to apply a light initial coat of finish because I am doing some decorative inlays on the tie offs in A size thread. I will do some experimenting on scrap blanks I have laying around. Happy holidays and tight lines.

-Nikola