The Dirty Side Of Wraps - Custom Rod Building Tips - Underwrap

when you're doing Rod wraps there's a clean side and a dirty side to the wrap the clean side should face up as the fisherman's using the rod towards his or her eyes and the dirty side will face towards their feet so while you're actually using the rod you don't see the dirty side of the wraps the area considered to be the dirty side is where you try to put all your pull throughs and tag ends in any inlays or anything like that will start and stop on the dirty side of the wraps so if I were to lay out this under wrap I'd want to make sure that all the stop and start points the pull throughs and everything like that were all in a row with each other and on the same side of the wrap in this video I'm going to show you how to keep the dirty side as clean as possible or at least the way that I do it as I plan out this under wrap what I'm going to think about are the colors that are used the spacing and what type of tension want to use as I'm doing these wraps one of the major things I think you should try to do anytime you're transitioning colors or anything is to try to minimize the amount of pull throughs you have pull throughs are areas that are risky it doesn't matter how long you've been doing this a pull through can cause you some problems because of the pull through Loop itself the pull through Loop is going to be a doubled up piece of thread and if you're using the same type of thread for your pull through Loop that you're using to do the wraps with got a double thickness of thread under your thread and you're only pulling a single thickness back through that's going to loosen things up and it's going to move the threads around and even if you're using a pull through Loop that is thinner than the thread you're using it's still going to want to move the threads that it's running underneath as you pull it out so the less pull through Loops you have the less likely you are to have problems as you're wrapping in my opinion in this particular wrap I was able to get it done with just one pull through through so I want my ends to be tight I want all my white threads to be tight on the tension the reason for that is because the blank is black white is hard to do on Black it's notoriously hard to do on Black you want those wraps as tight as you can get them you want them packed as well as you can get them also the white is also on both ends I want my ends tight no matter what color it is especially the starting trim band because that's what everything else is built off of you want it nice and straight and packed tightly to start out with on the red color I'm using a little less tension I'm kind of using a medium tension on that it's a little lighter in color so you don't want it too loose because of the dark blank and it's covering a large area so you want it to be packed in pretty tight we'll start the wraps the white wraps with heavy tension and I'm going to put a few turns on it after I get the wrap started I'm going to go ahead and cut the tag end off then I'll continue the wrap on and I'll pack it as I go trying to keep things as tight as I can get it I want to get off to a good start here because I'll build the rest of the wrap off of this and the biggest difference that you'll notice is that when I go to stop the white color I don't actually stop the thread there or tie into it in any way I just extend the wrap out in a spiral away from the trim band itself I'll tape that down and it will become a tag end so I'm going to cut my thread there and this is really how I'm able to avoid doing many pull throughs it's a technique I use a lot and some people might find it fiddly I don't to me it looks good and it's not hard to do either now I can get the white thread out of the way and I'm going to pull my red through on my wrapping jig and I'm going to start it in right up against the White and spiral out a tag in on it and tape that down then I'll get a few turns on it to lock it in place and I can go back and trim off the White and the red trim bands and I'll just pull those around in order to get them to line up with the tag in from the original white trim band I'm going to try to keep these all in the line the tag end from the white trim band I can pull away from me towards my thread tensioner because of the direction that I was wrapping in to get it aligned and the Red Thread I'll have to pull towards me and if you stop and think about which way you stop and start the threads that'll make sense as to why they go in opposite directions in order to get things lined up right and after you trim those off you'll want to come back in and push your threads over with whatever tool you use or your fingernail or whatever you use to move your threads push them over to tighten them back up against that white trim band that started out the wrap and once I'm happy with how that's looking and everything looks to be straightened up and tightened up I'll go ahead and continue on with the red and I'll speed up through that process but I'm just continuing to wrap I'm using medium tension on the red and I'm using my tool to adjusted is I need to to push things over in order to keep everything closed out so you don't see the blank behind the threads now I'm using that technique I showed you earlier where I'm pulling the Red Thread over wrapping it in the spiral and I'll tape it down to the blank as well I cut it off and it will now become a tag in that will go under the next color and now I can get the red thread unhooked from my jig and out of the way now I'm going to bring my white back in and run it right alongside the red and get a few turns on it before I pull my tag ends around and trim them off the way I did earlier same process just continued on to the next color and you'll see me use scissors and razor blades interchangeably it doesn't matter to me usually one way or the other I just grab whatever's closest to me use whatever is your preference I guess if I had to choose one over the other I'd use scissors because the way I do my pull throughs I don't really need razor blades but razor blades are handy at times two and you can cut really close with them I'll just continue on this wrap and I'll be packing as I go continue the white trim there before I start in with my blue now I'm going to bring in my blue color and I'll be using it in one of my bobbin holders because I don't want a whole lot of tension on this and I can use my fingers to get a better feel for how much tension I'm getting on it than I can on my wrapping jig it's not too bad but I prefer when I'm using really light tension on something like this I really like these bobbin holders for stuff like that so that's what I'll be using but I'll still be doing the same process where I started in beside the previous color and spiral it around tape it down put a few turns on it and go back and pull my tag ends around to where they need to be and trim those off and continue my wrap on and really I'll just repeat this process throughout I'll go back to the white then I'll go back to the red but before I get done with the red I'm going to do one thing a little bit different so I'm just going to skip skip ahead in the video and get to that point and show you what it is that I do just a little bit differently there I've got a few turns left on the red here I've skipped ahead I have a few more tires that I need to put down on the red I'm going to go ahead and install the pull through Loop and this pull through Loop is actually for the white where I'm going to terminate the whole wrap the reason I'm installing it a little further back is because I want plenty of pull through for my white end trim band to make sure that it's secured very well and once again I'm spiraling over the red so I can wrap over the top of that and make that into a tag end underneath the white the reason I like using this method and it's not as fast as some of the other ways of doing it but the reason I like to do this is because I don't have a lot of thread under my threads it's real easy to wrap over a tag in with three or four turns and get it locked down to keep your thread under the other wraps to a minimum and that really improves the neatness to me of the whole wrap on the dirty side it makes things a whole lot cleaner looking so if you're building rods for a living you might not want to mess with this unless you charge a premium charge for a premium thread service somebody wanted a standard wrap I suppose you could charge a standard rate but if somebody wanted a premium upgraded wrap you could possibly look at doing something like this to keep it as clean as possible if you're trying to turn out rides as quick as you can for customers this probably isn't going to work for you but it really does make for a really clean looking dirty side of your wrap tomorrow [Music] [Music] [Music] morning [Music] foreign [Music]

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Id: C5ZGKZ948Ko

Length: 10min 3sec (603 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 31 2023