Single Inlaid Turns and Single Turn Trim Bands

hey what's up YouTube bill Faulkner with Faulkner custom rods coming to you again with another video by requests gonna do a video a couple of videos on trim bands and in Lane turns in this video I'm gonna be focusing on single in light turns so one turn of a contrasting thread II that the beginning of a wrap towards one end of a wrap in the middle of the wrap or at the end of a wrap and I'm gonna show you all the different techniques only caveat this video there's more than one way to do everything and so this is just how I do it I would encourage you to get all the back issues a rod maker magazine and look at all the articles on trim bands I encourage you to do some research for other YouTube channels and see how people are doing it you may find a technique that works for you but these are the techniques that work really well for me so please like and subscribe stay tuned and here's how I do single in my turns thanks alright so gonna do a couple of videos here on request to show how to do various a single inlay turn so I'm going to show you how to do an inlay turn about five turns into the start of a guide wrap I'm gonna show you how to do one in the middle and then I'm gonna show you how to do on it either end and just since it seems to show up well on camera to be clear I'm gonna wrap everything with the same two threads just so you can see them really well and so you can understand what I'm using here so I'm gonna do the main standing wrap with this is fuji ultra poly size a no CP in color number 20 which is kind of a candy apple red that's what I'm gonna used for the main wrap and then for my trim this is Fuji Ultra probably no CP size a in color 0:02 which is just white so we're gonna do the main standing wrap in red with the trim in white for this wrap what I've got is a Fuji let's see b ce que la g 10h so this is a Alka Knight ring in the gunmetal or grey corrosion control frame excellent excellent guide for anything but I really like them for saltwater so we're going to be wrapping that on I just all I've done here is stick it in place with some flex cap guide foot adhesive and we're gonna wrap right on it here so in order to do an inlay turn towards the beginning of the wrap we're gonna do this one about five turns in I'm gonna cut a short length this is plenty this is probably six inches of the size 8 and OCP thread and I'm gonna put it at least 2/3 of it this direction of where I'm starting the wrap one of the beautiful things about shaping your guide feet is that you can start the wrap pretty much right on the guide if you do it correctly and that's what I'm gonna do here so if you look I've got the guide on the blank I've placed the white thread next to it and I'm sort of wrapping over it and capturing the white thread just right at the edge of the guide foot so that's one two three four five now five looks good to me you can do as many turns as you want so now the traditional way to do the inlaid turn is to pull the thread the white thread inside of the red thread and we just wrap around the blank with both threads and we sort of stop close where we haven't overlapped and it mostly looks good but you know to me you have this gap and even if you push it together it doesn't look like one Turner and I just I never like that and so I sort of figured out my own way to to do these I'm just unwrapping going back to where I've got five wraps now the way that I like to do this is to keep in the rod blank stationary and not rotating it I'm literally gonna cut the white thread in and it's moving on me a little bit this happens I'm gonna put it inside the red thread go once all the way around the blank and then back inside of the red thread now I'm gonna rotate the rod and what you can see is pull on this to straighten it out a little bit I have one turn of the white thread within a turn without rotating a turn of the red thread and there's no gap and actually sort of is captured there now what I'm gonna do once I've given it five or six turns and it's kind of solidly anchored I'm gonna pull on my white thread to tighten it up and you see it kind of slips and makes it so that the place where the thread the turn starts and ends just kind of come together and that's really all I'm gonna do I'm gonna trim it close it's actually a high-quality pair of scissors but I've dropped it so many times you can see it's kind of beat-up and I'm just gonna for now leave the tag end all I'm doing here is straighten it out I'll know if you can see on camera but it's a little bit of a zig zag and my white inlay turns red whoops all right I got a bad rap there we go now this is the beginning of the rap I'm using pretty much normal for attention I can still kind of move everything around I'm just moving everything to get straight I want to make sure this edge of the wrap is completely concentric around the rod blank straight-edged that's not straight it's gonna be hard to get a straight edge a finish etc etc etc when I go to finish this wrap I'm also gonna continuously pack this way pack the threads back towards the direction I started you see I'm using my left thumb against the wrap to keep it from moving so I don't slide the whole wrap down the blank but I'm just packing the wraps that I've already made in towards the beginning of the wrap including on top of the guide foot and that's gonna do a couple of things for me if I continuously pack throughout this whole wrap I'm gonna get more many more 20 or 25% more turns of thread on this wrap than I would if I just sort of wrap and didn't pack that makes for a stronger wrap the strength of your apps is determined not by how big a thread use size D or size a size D which is larger is not inherently stronger but how many wraps you get so by using size a thread using lots of turns packing them in tight I get the strongest possible gotta wrap the other thing that I get is very even in uniform color when it comes time to finish this this is a bright thread on a dark blank and if you don't pack it well you're gonna get uneven coloration or you could get variation from wrap to wrap some people have trouble with size a thread with shape on some of these guides like these Fugees have a pretty significant in the LH you know high frame high performance tangle free spinning configuration they have a lot of shape to the foot here and above where you would shape the guide foot to prep it but as long as you wrap over it and continuously pack back into it you get very very dense wraps very even covered you can see there's nowhere you can see the guide foot through there we're pretty close to the end of this wrap so I'm going to insert my tie off loop I'll describe this tie off material at some point but it's very high-performance undyed braided fishing line it happens to be 16 strand hollow core fishing line and it is the best tie off rat material I have ever found and you see I start to get a little bit of a gap here in the wrap and I'm just gonna pack close it up you don't like the way it looks finish and tying it off and gonna make it better so keep tacking it burnishing as you go and you get a very deep color and a solid wrap I've gotten to where I've wrapped about as far as I can wrap without it starting to wrap up onto the guide foot and I'm a wrap up on the guide foot a little just so you can see see how it starts to go up the frame there that's not what I want some unwrapped a couple of wraps and I'm gonna go around behind the guide underneath the guide I call these blocking wraps or locking wraps not as elaborate as the four hand locking wrap which is really really good for single foot guides but just putting a few wraps behind the guide ensures that it's gonna get blocked from pulling out good and lock down with finish it seems for me at least to help get guide finished down along the tunnel beside the guide side so I'm gonna stop there trim my wrap thread go through my tie off loop here I can't ever get anything easily put your on camera there you go now I'm doing my lip and I'm actually gonna pull it all the way through now while I still have tension I'm gonna go back through and pack the only thing see there's a little bit of a gap here I'm just gonna pack all those threads back till they're nice solid and even burnish a little bit very dense even color straight edges all the way around the wraps now let's take care of our trim there's lots of ways you can tie off your wrap and cut them this is the way I like to do it learned it from pretty sure Tom Kirkman and rod maker magazine but you can either just pull on your tag a little or if you have a triangular-shaped tool like this you can put one edge of it in beside your thread and create a little bit of a gap this is a sharp clean razor blade I take these out of the package wipe them down especially the edge the edge part here because they have some light machine oil on them to keep them from corroding on the shelf in the package wipe the whole thing down with the paper towel then where the paper towels rubbing alcohol and pay particular attention to get along the edge so there's no oil or contaminant on this plate it's very clean but using a sharp new blade I'm gonna lay it right beside the edge of the that little gap I just created and just pull my tag in against it then if I burnish this way and this is a very smooth hard burnishing tool it just closes that gap covers up that tag in immediately very neat very clean I haven't used the razor to go down into my wrap at all where I might cut my red thread or fray it and I haven't touched the blank at all with that extremely sharp razor edge which you know might not matter down here in the thicker butt section of the blank but with a high modulus blank you do not want to be digging in with the razor blade because you can damage the fibers right at the surface so now we've got to handle this tag in on this single inlay turn and I'm just kind of before I trim it I'm going to burnish around here make sure it looks good in creates a very straight concentric circle all around the blank get a little bit of a drop my packing tool sorry a little bit of a hiccup here right on the guide foot so I'm actually burnishing the entire wrap that way generally you can see now that makes it look a little more straight all the way around once I'm satisfied I'm gonna pack with my thumb or my tool this way as tight as I can I begin tag end and then the same thing as I did with my other tag in put my razor right on the edge of the wrap pull my tag in against it you can see when I first do that there's the tiniest little bit of white tag in there but if I burnish this way gently over it and then push it back a few times it disappears it's gone so now I have not done any damage to the blank I've got a clean single inlay turn with no gap and no overlap that's how you do a single in my turn at the very beginning of the wrap next we're gonna do an inlay turn I'm just gonna pull this off grab a different guide and do an inlay turn where it's one turn here in the middle of the wrap all right now for this one we're gonna show you can do a single in late turn in the middle of a wrap this wrap is gonna be red this is fuji ultra poly NCP and candy apple red and as a trim I'm gonna use Fuji in CP size a white this is kind of a red white and blue themed rod marker so those are the colors I'm using I'm good and get my wrap started with my red MCP thread sorry I didn't mean to bump the camera you can see this is a Fuji KL agh which is a chrome stainless alka night frame and I've done a good job of prepping that guide but you see how nice and smooth and polished that guide foot is watch how closely I can start my wrap I can literally see on that guide within a few wraps there's one two and three I'm already climbing the guide put and you can see even though this is sized a thread it's gonna climb right up nice and easy no problem which is one of the huge reasons why I pretty oughta prep your guides because it makes starting crap the other thing I do all the time I think is maybe lost on people is the more and I've mentioned this before but the more raps you get the stronger your guide rap is so now that we've gotten a ways into the strap we're gonna go ahead and trim your standing tag and I'm gonna continuously I'm putting my thumbnail against the edge of the wrap to keep from moving it but then I'm packing with my packing tool these whatever kind of tool you want this is an old Clemens tool I'm keeping it very concentric and round around the blank but I'm keeping the wraps packed very tightly together and this helps you not only get a very strong wrap and finishes really uniformly it helps you get a very uniform color especially with lighter colored threads so this is a a bright red thread over a very dark blue blank and if you don't really do a good job packing your threads tight you're gonna get kind of splotchy you can get slightly uneven color or you get some bleed through the blue through the red and you get sort of a dark red we want very even color so I'm gonna wrap from here to start of the wrap to a little bit under the guide foot for security wrap purposes so I want an inlaid turn right here in about the middle so now that I've got into the wrap little ways you always want to be mindful of sometimes your tag is gonna be visible after you finish it through the thread so my white may show through the red or sometimes it won't be but now I'm gonna take a short section of this Fuji no CP ultra bottle size a white I'm gonna lay it into the guide wrap and just keep wrapping I'm gonna continue to pack the wrap packing it this way that way to get it tight until I've gotten its where I judged I'm about halfway done with the guide wrap okay so now without moving the rod here here's the traditional way to do a trim ban you just rotate the rod once with the thread following the guide and you sort of have this gap or you almost get it right out I don't like doing them that way so the way that I do it is I stop at this point rotating the rod and I'm just gonna rotate my trim fit I'm gonna go over once and then come back behind my standing thread and I'm going to far you can see I've kind of overlapped that and you see got the white thread running all the way around and then we've got this short section here where it's actually doubled now if I pack it you can't really see it it looks a little bit thicker we're gonna give it about five or six wraps and we're gonna go back and takes it now I'm gonna take this tag and I'm gonna pull this way to tighten it and then I'm gonna just I don't think see that I've pulled and shortened it to where the one end just slightly overlaps with the original to wrap and I get no gap so I have a solid uninterrupted single thread turn it's a lot more attractive to me than that single turn with a gap in it now you can see I've got a tag about this long to here I'm gonna trim this one because it's about the same length here now really mostly this is going to be invisible because this is no CPW thread and I'm wrapping over it but in the event you can see it keeping your tags symmetrical looks very sort of orderly and deliberate and to my eye attractive so now you have a little bit of a flange a swell on this Fujii guide foot now you see if I just wrap I can see the guide through you see that silver shining through it looks kind of unattractive but once I've wrapped a few wraps now I go to pack back and I'm packing this way back towards the direction of the wrap I started you can see how dense that gets and I can no longer see that guide foot through it despite the shape now this Fuji foot that has some swell there's some shoulder it's not gonna show because I packed it and here again it wants to creep on me a little bit so you can use your thumb to pack it back that way which is what I'm doing I'm just pulling my thumb that way you can use your tool you can use whatever you know obviously you might want to follow your thumbnail a little bit make sure it's smooth make sure you don't have any contamination under your nail or anything else is gonna mess with your thread rabbit all right so now we're getting most the way down with the wrap Simon insert my tie off loop again this is from sharkbait USA in California it's 20 pound holic or 16 strand braid which is incredibly good line fishing line and very expensive but it's the best tie off flip material you've ever seen in your life I literally have been using some of these loops for 10 years I'd have to go ask Mark Smith when you've sold me the first so now I've wrapped about as far as it's beginning to climb up onto the guide foot so now I'm just gonna go behind and under and I lift that guide a little bit to get the first wrap or two under now I'm just gonna wrap until to my eye I'm as long on one side of the trim band as I am on the other and are almost there we need just a couple more turns and again I'm continuing to pack as I go don't want to get there you see I've got a little bit of a gap here and I'm just gonna lift the guide foot and using my tool pack that in and bam it's gone very tight and that looks to me centered that looks like we got the single trim in the middle of the link to the guide wrap to be sure I went one more wrap it looks long so I'm gonna back up a wrap cut it and tie it off again I'm gonna tie this off the same way I did the last wrap put my tag through my loop and I'm gonna pull my loop all the way through grab my standing tag and pull it so there's a little gap you see that gap right there make sure we got this really in focus and I'm gonna pull the thread this way lay my sharp new razor blade right against the edge of that gap and just pull my tag that way there it goes now I got to do is just burnish it to close I have not frayed my standing guide wrap I have not put a razor blade against my modulus rod blank I've done nothing to jeopardize performance of this rod and I've got a smooth clean trim band tie off so now I'm just burnishing make sure and you can see if you have good tight wraps cuz you're packing the whole way it's a very dense dark even color and lengthen it or shorten it if you need to you to burnish a little bit you can see that my white band is very concentric all the way around the blank so now I'm just gonna do the same thing I'm gonna rather than just pull this white tag this way I'm gonna pull it that way a little bit put the edge of my tool in there to create my gap pull the thread against the razor blade burnish that way and we're all done there we have a perfect single in late turn midway through a guide wrap take off my masking tape I used to work my guide placement alright now for our final trim I'm gonna show you how to do a single turn both at the beginning and the end of the wrap and you don't have to do these at the same time you could just do the beginning you just see the end you can do it in combination with a wrap in the center and you can obviously make these more than one turn wide it's just the hardest ones to do or the single turn wraps and so that's why it's what I'm going to show you so again we're using our fuji ultra poly no CP size a in co2 which is NCP white right for the trim band and then we're using our color 20 in a Fuji no CP ultra poly size a4 the standing wrap so the only tricky part about doing these single inlay turns is getting them started and then tying them off so when we did the the first trim where we kind of had the trim band 5 turns in we just had to trap our inlay thread under our first wrap in this example we're gonna have to trap both our inlay thread in our tie off loop in our first wrap I'm using a rinse Eddy lathe which is a wrapping machine which is the best I've ever found but the thread does come from the top and so I'm showing you how I do this with the thread from the top but you can just adjust it for thread coming from the front of the rod or whatever but in order since the threads coming from the top I'm rotating the blank towards me to wrap the guide on I want to put my tie off loop kind of downstream into the wrap relative to where I put the tie off thread and I'll show you what I mean in a minute so from over the top what that means is my Trent my time my Trent bread goes in first then my tie awfully so now I cut my thread over so I'm wrapping over it one we're starting just almost right on the guide foot now these k lb c ka h 10 JS have a great guy foot don't require much work and fuji just does an unbelievable job with quality control but I do shape the guide foot and you can see by virtually the fact that I have shaped and polished that guide foot effectively and I'll show you how I do that in another video I'm able to start the rat just almost right on the guide foot and that's that's really helpful so I've wrapped forward now probably 10 or 12 wraps and now we're gonna do our inlaid turn so all I'm gonna do is grab my trim thread and hold it up here in the same direction my thread is coming from my lathe and I'm gonna rotate the rod one turn okay and then once I've gone past where it is overlapping you see now that's why I placed the loop in that direction the thread first and then the loop I get things sequence just right so I can turn my white trim thread the same direction as I'm rotating the blank now there's two ways you can do this I have the thread trapped under you can either pinch with your thumbnail right here near the overlap point and pull or you can Pat your thumb up here and essentially I pulled the trim band through and I've got quite a bit of overlap so here's where the white starts here the white ends I've got I don't know forty to fifty degrees of circumference around the blank with the single enlight trim doubled so what I want to do is correct that a little so I'm pulling on my tag in that I just pulled under kind of that direction in that direction and I'm adding tension OOP there we go as well as sort of moving it and if I do it right what I'm gonna get is that an overlap where there is absolutely no doubling of the thread now granted I'm being a little bit of a perfectionist it doesn't have to be that exact a little bit of overlap is not highly visible right but there you have it you have a single inlay time that doesn't double at all now if I want to be really picky I'm putting back tension on my wrap and I'm reversing my wrap a little bit to make it shorter and now I'm going to trim off these tag ends so they're really short if I try to pull the tag in through and do the turn when the wrap is this short there's not enough tension to hold it in place and the whole thing will come on wound on me but once I've already executed the trim I can go back and shorten my tie offs and that just makes them very subtle very uniform and to me very sort of professional-looking you won't see much underneath the red thread but you will see just a little bit and so now I'm like I'm always gonna do I'm both burnishing from this side to make sure the rap goes completely straight around the blank and I'm burnishing from the guides side to make sure I have a very tight dense wrap now we're just gonna go ahead and wrap the whole guide and I'm just I'm gonna run the video I could probably shorten it to the get straight to the point but I want you to see how often how consistently I'm packing right I'm constantly constantly even on top of the guide foot trying to pack so I get good even color and if you want you can go ahead and go over like that you say I've got a little patchy right there I've got a gap right there but watch what belongs my thread tensions right not too heavy not too light which is very easy with Hurons Ettie which is very smooth I'm always able to pack it continuing to pack the thread all the way back and you can see I'm I keep going climbing back over my own thread I actually have the thread feeding from an angle back this way trying to climb over itself so it just it's inherently wrapping very flush one wrap next to the other plus I'm burnishing as I go so now once you get to the point where you'd about insert your tie off wrap we're gonna insert a couple of things one is we need to tie off wrap to finish the wrap for our red thread and I'm gonna put that over here pretty close to before we go over the guide foot and over here on the other side I'm gonna put my trim and a tie off loop for my trim and I'm gonna finish the guide wrap as we normally would we keep packing we keep getting a dense wrap got stuff going everywhere I could take this thread down if it ran my way to keep it out of the way but I'm not going to worry about it too much again kind of like the other video where we did the end like 5 turns in or the inlay in the middle as soon as we start kind of wrapping up onto the guide foot then we're gonna go underneath the guide 1 - at least 3 times and then we're going to tie it off and so remember we got to tie off loops and the one almost all the way around over onto the side of the guide towards my thread deed is the one I'm gonna use the tie off the main standing thread we use the same tie off technique we're gonna pull it all the way underneath and we're gonna dress pack this wrap and I'm not gonna trim that tag in yet alright so now we have a good even uniform wrap it's time to do our single inlay turn okay so we're gonna rotate once again following with the trim underneath the guide feed our trim thread through that loop now be very careful if I pull this under tension without holding down the trim thread it's very easy to pull it underneath itself so I'm gonna just that here's the juncture this is right where the the oh the first thread is rather than right there although that's where I want it to end up I'm gonna pinch it over here and I'm pinning it to the blank and you see the thread traveled all the way to where I had it now I'm simply gonna tension both of these threads and align them to where there you see I've got just about one exact turn without a lot of excess burnish it's that it goes straight all the way around the blank I've got a burnished here beside the guy fell a little bit now it's time to trim everything off so I'm gonna pull with my tag lay my razor blade flat against it whoops didn't get it make sure you don't feed your hand into the razor blade because it's a sharp new razor blade it'll cut anything so there I've cut off my tag of my standing wrapping thread so now it's just time to trim these off point of subtlety when I was getting ready to tie off my Mane tying thread I just I just wrapping thread rather I just pulled this tag in that way to create the gap you don't want to pull on this thread because you may impact your overlap so rather than pull on it we're gonna insert the point of our thread tool next to it and move it what that does for us this doesn't mess up our overlap here and our perfect trend right now same thing I'm laying the razor right on the edge of the red thread on this side of the gap pull the thread into it same thing here now I'm going to burnish this way close that down no tag showing and there you have it again you can do a single turn at the beginning of our app the end of the wrap do one in the middle do a jto be sorry Jim Turley Kassala branch in the middle fella Keys do whatever you want but that's that's one way to do a single in lake turn alright one last thing as we wrap up here the subtle point but worth making I always try to be critical of my work because that's what you learned from a couple things I'd point out too this wrap so this is just a quick demo wrap and I didn't redo it and I didn't take a bunch of takes to get a perfect one I just pretty much showed you like it is but if you look right here we just almost don't have a complete a little bit of red bleeding over and making it a little thin so I'd probably redo that and the only other thing that I see says I gotta get straight mm-hmm all the way around the blank which looks kind of funny because the parallax I put in my loop my tie off loop and my trim band a little bit early on this on this wrap and I'll show you what I mean if you ever want to know what your app is gonna look like here I've got a spray bottle for rubbing alcohol and I wouldn't do this on a wrap I was actually gonna finish but I would do it on a test wrap when you wet this wrap out it shows you kind of what you're gonna get both color wise and what goes transparent and what's not and if you look here's the trim from our starting trim band and here's the tags from our ending you see how they're longer ideally you'd want those to be symmetrical and so we made these short by backing the wrap up and trimming you can't do that on this one you just need to make sure you're thoughtful about where you put it in so if I had waited five more turns before I put them in and those trims would be the same length as those and they look very uniform very deliberate very under control very mastered the other thing I do is this is a spinning guide I mean this isn't really a wrap and it's not really a rod but this is a spinning guide if it were gonna be do not have my tag of this starting wrap right on top where it's totally visible to the angler at all times really better to have them over here on the bottom on one side not so close to the wrap that they don't get held down or have tension but but you know so it's it's less visible very subtle but this is the kind of stuff that I think demonstrates mastery the other thing I want to show you about the Flex cup guide put adhesive because it's an excellent product it's just a stick and I use it all the time I can still very much move this guide right and I know it's wet right now but I can move it dry or wet once you pop it free you totally can reposition it and do guide foot alignment and there anything else but if I were to cut this wrap and pull it off it would always have that little coating of the Flex COAG I'd put adhesive on the bottom of it protecting the blank and if you've never seen it this is it it's just a stick you just here's another Fuji Guide this is ABC que el AG 20 H I'm just gonna start my lighter put the guide beside it not in the flame but just beside it and warm it a little bit run it on there and stick it in place and there it is it's stuck on it's not going anywhere ready to wrap it you don't need a bunch of microbe and you don't even to rubber bands you know even to zip ties I don't know why people don't use this stuff works great anyway hope the video was helpful appreciate the recommendations to do this topic if you want to hear another or if you have another topic you like to see in a video just give me a shout out and I'll do my best thanks for watching please like and subscribe

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Length: 37min 11sec (2231 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 07 2020