Fourth Wrap Of Mine In This Learning Process (Picture Heavy)

**Jamesdean** · 04-16-2025, 02:17 PM

In this one, I'm going to try to show my whole process from set-up to Color Preserver. On each end of the work area, I use single sided painters tape, reversed on it's self, so the sticky side is out, yet it don't spin on the shaft.
In pick one I've already done the left side, so on the right side, I place the tape, sticky side down, on the surface. Holding the roll firmly, rotate the rod so the tap transfer to the rod. I put 1-1/2 times around, pic 2.
In Pic three, I'm folding the tap back over itself, so the two non-sticky surfaces are touching each other. I put a crease accross the tape side to side, a sharp crease. Now roll the rod in the opposite direction keeping the tape fairly tight, again till you have made 1-1/2 to 2 turns, and now the sticky side is out. I do this 4 times, twice on each end, once on each side of the forked support. The two inside the supports will hold the ends of thread at the end of each passes, and the outside two aide in me rotating the rod as I wrap.
Now is when you would put on an under wrap, back-ground color if you so chose to do something. You need to know how long you want the wrap to be. Most of the information I've came accross suggests a 4-inch wrap. This is practice in the learning process for me, so this one will be about 4-inches long. I typically find the center of the area I'm tying, then measure 1/2 the distance each way to start, placing a small mark at that point.
To set your 0* and your 180* points for your crosses, the simplest way I have found is to take a piece of tape and wrap it around the rod, sticky side down till it meets it self where you started. With a fine point marker, I use a sharp pencil, mark the spot where the two meet, then peel the tape off, and put on a flat surface, table top. Measure from the end of the tape to your mark. At the mid-way point, place another mark. You now have your 0* and 180* marks. Simply reward the tape where you had it wrapped before and mark your rod. Ok you have the center marked, the 0 and 180*'s marked, all we need to do now is mark the half way points on each side of center, giving us 5 marks on this side of the rod. Almost ready to start wrapping.
Welcome must now rotate the rod 180* to the marks we made there. Find the mark even wih the end on the 0*. Measure toward the center of the rod 1/2 inch, then continue the one inch measurements you did on the 0* axis. This will give you three points inside the 4-inch pattern. Now your ready to start wrapping...

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**Jamesdean** · 04-16-2025, 11:27 PM

And we are wrapping. I personally start with several wraps just around the tape on the starting end and wrap over them to ensure they stay put.
I must put in a warning here... When you are actually wrapping the thread and are between the tape at the ends, keep tension on the thread. If you allow slack in the thread, I promise you you will be unwinding the wrap back to the tape on the end and re-wrapping that round. Ask me how I know...
Anyway, back to this. In the third picture I'm showing how I keep track of how many threads I have on which axis. Each time I wind a thread down, I mark the axis. On the chevron pattern, I think it's the A and C axis, or as I stated before the North Down and the North Back.
I will note here also, I have the Chevron line down the shaft so my cross marks are in a straight line...Ok, now that I have the center guide thread placed, in this case a gold thread that will be an outline thread, I can start with the first color. I stopped to look at it good and had it wrong...start on the South side of A and return on the North side of C. I'm wanting the gold out line to be on top of the purple on both sides, with the Chevron pointing down the rod, toward the tip. Assuming the rod tip would be to my right...now, another note, as you wrap there will be small gaps in the thread where they are separated a bit. I have read, as well as been told in tutorial videos, not to worry about them till you have about five threads side by side. At that point pack the threads tighter. If you try to do each thread it will take much longer to get five threads side by side...once I pack them, I lay down another single strand of the purple, then another gold, and move to the second color...
Not sure what I did with the pictures here. Set the phone down to fix dinner for Miss Joyce and I. After dinner they were all gone, hhmmm. Donno...
More to come...

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**Jamesdean** · 04-17-2025, 02:07 AM

So with all those pictures gone, this is where I'm at...one more pass on the middle shade then another pass on the gold. So that's six passe down and back and another gold, so onto the third color... Name: 20250417_014756.jpg
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**Jamesdean** · 04-17-2025, 02:24 AM

It's really hard to see in the previous picture, but that's a single pass of the third color next to the gold. Here is a pic of the second pass down and back...It's getting easier to see. Name: 20250417_022107.jpg
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**Jamesdean** · 04-17-2025, 02:32 AM

And pass 3 down and back. The third color can be seen now. Name: 20250417_023037.jpg
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**Jamesdean** · 04-17-2025, 03:03 AM

Now with the 4th pass down and back, that pink is coming in good. In this picture, you not only see the pink well, but you can see the Chevron pointing to the left...
In the following pic, is the sixth pass down and back. This time after the gold pass for the boarder pass, I'm going to change it up a bit and see what that looks like. Right next to the gold is a thread of silver to repeat the color scheme again only with silver instead of the gold, for a side by side comparison. But all that will come later in the day.
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**Grumpa** · 04-17-2025, 10:02 AM

Very impressive, looks like you will be ready for an actual rod pretty quick

**Jamesdean** · 04-17-2025, 11:30 AM

Thank you Dave and Grumpa, I've got some more Ideas I want to try Grumpa, and I do thank you and Dave for the comments. I'm reading one of Dale Clemens books now, Digesting a little at a time, and have been watching Mary MacIntyre Christy's YouTube channel a lot here lately. Picking up bits and pieces here and there. It all helps me get a grasp on things better. Of coarse I'm going through the Rod building threads here as well. I'm not the brightest lightbulb in the package, and am having a bit of trouble getting a grip on this action camera from Alpen Optics,(similar to a go Pro). Would be easier to post, and folks actually see what goes into wrapping a rod. No book on it, so the going is slow...

**Jamesdean** · 04-17-2025, 04:36 PM

First pic here is of one gold and two silver, second picture I've added 2 bands of the original purple. I'm going to repeat the first three stripes of the Chevron only using a silver border.. Name: 20250417_162031.jpg
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**Jamesdean** · 04-17-2025, 04:46 PM

Here is 4 bands up and back on the purple. 2 more up and back, then the silver...

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