Soooo I’m relatively new to rod building and I’ve been looking for the best and most professional way to accomplish this, can anyone give me some detailed instruction on getting a color shifting effect onto the rod not the whole blank just between the foregrip and first guide

How much area do you want to cover? A common thread shading wrap would do it nicely. Otherwise you're maybe looking at some airbrush work.

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Not a ton of area I was looking into wrapping it with thread but just the portion between the winding check on the foregrip and the first guide, if I was to airbrush it, what type of paint do you recommend? Thanks!

Createx makes some excellent water based airbrush paints- their line includes clear, transparent, candy, etc. I've had great results painting lures and reel seats. You will need some top-coat protection to preserve your art work. These paints are readily available at your local craft stores or online

Mudhole sells wraps that you could use. Its self sticking and you epoxy over it.

I just did a little Google search. I've never used this stuff, but it looks like it might be just the ticket. It seems like a powder pigment, similar to those offered by a number of suppliers, that can be mixed into paint, epoxy, and other media.

[www.paintwithpearl.com]

If you wanted to use a pigment as mentioned, you could sort of marble one color into another and achieve something similar.

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Joe That’s the desired effect I’m going for now would I mix the pigments into epoxy and Do a thin coat over the area I want? Or would epoxy be the wrong product for this application, and as to everyone giving me information and ideas thank you all so much this is REALLY helpful guys

If it's just a short area, maybe a few inches, marbling over that area isn't going to hurt anything. It will add a little weight but no more than a decorative wrap and epoxy would.

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Brandon fennimore Wrote:
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> Joe That’s the desired effect I’m going for
> now would I mix the pigments into epoxy and Do a
> thin coat over the area I want? Or would epoxy be
> the wrong product for this application, and as to
> everyone giving me information and ideas thank you
> all so much this is REALLY helpful guys

I have used pearl powder with epoxy before...
This pearl powder was made by Do-It for making plastic lures have a pearl effect.
Here is a picture of a black lure with just epoxy and pearl powder.
The picture doesn't really do it justice...the powder is extremely tiny. It looks amazing in the sun.
This particular photo (though in focus) made all the pearls go bokeh.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2022 10:01AM by Chris Catignani.

HobyLoby has 5 colors of color shift spray paint made by Testors. It works great.

Dennis J. Danku
(Sayreville,NJ)

Chris that looks awesome, that’s all I’m looking for something that’s not like completely in your face just something that at certain angles or in the sun light pops. I was almost thinking about mixing a little bit into finish and doing a coat over the desired area would that be a possibility??

Brandon fennimore Wrote:
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> Chris that looks awesome, that’s all I’m
> looking for something that’s not like completely
> in your face just something that at certain angles
> or in the sun light pops. I was almost thinking
> about mixing a little bit into finish and doing a
> coat over the desired area would that be a
> possibility??

Yes...all it takes is just a tiny bit of that powder. You really cant tell what its going to look like until you apply it.
So I would do a test first so you can see the results.
It actually would look kinda cool to put a clear coat down first...then a coat with the pearl.
I like doing this with waterslide decals to give it that "float" look.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2022 09:27PM by Chris Catignani.

Awesome thank you and to everyone else thank you this was incredibly helpful

The easiest way is to mask the area off, and use this, Kyrlon Color Morph spray paint.;

[www.dickblick.com]

Then, cover the area with epoxy when dry.

Pearl-Ex Interference pigments mixed in with Testors clear, painted over the desired base color will work as well, but you'd need an airbrush and the accompanying accessories.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2022 05:23PM by Joel Wick.

Could also do a tiger wrap. A lot of detailed information on the internet on how to do one. Here is a ‘how to’ from the library.
[www.rodbuilding.org]
Norm

Joel wick that sounds like a good idea would airbrushing the desired area and then varnishing over it work so I don’t have that build up of epoxy ?