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Mojorizing wrote:

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Dave, it's a color preserver that a lot of the cane builders use. Anglers Workshop and others carry it. Al's Silk Color Rite.

In other words is it a color preserver then the epoxy all with the same brand name.

I'll try and get the link to my glass rod catalog page to work again. It wouldn't work last evening. Here it is:

http://www.performancefly...om/catalog/glassrods.html

Because the natural honey color of the Lamiglas blanks is so light just about any color can be used with it. With the darker colors of graphite blanks and my varnish finish, anything in a lighter color ends up being splotchy after the varnish cures. It is a nightmare trying to get something in a light color to be really satisfactory with varnish. For example this dark burgundy Sage ZXL blank, I'll put the link since it is a very large jpg,

http://www.performancefly....com/catalog/586-4zxl.jpg

has Gudebrod rust thread. It ended up splotchy after the varnish had cured well, (days later) much too late to go back and make some changes. I knew better, but thought a new varnish I was using would prevent that, but it didn't. I had built that rod to use as a personal rod, so let it go, but really didn't use it this summer at all so put it back in inventory this fall. I haven't talked about that splotchiness in the listing, figuring it is obvious enough a buyer will make up his own mind about it. I did have two customers see it and ask me to do another with garnet thread, so I know they weren't satisfied with it. I don't like to let stuff like that go and wouldn't have gone with it but for the fact that I decided to use the rod myself. But things in life come around in ways we don't always expect, so it is for sale. If someone doesn't buy it this year, I'll discount it next year. Things like that bring us down to earth and let us know that, no matter how long we've done these things, we are never infallible.

Getting back to colors, I've used just a whole bunch of different ones on my glass rods this fall, probably more than a dozen different ones in mostly nylon but some silk. Even the transparent wraps are different colors, some yellow, some tan, some white silk. Trim colors are different too, some NCP, some darker nylon, usually garnet or brown, sometimes scarlet. I will confess one thing, I haven't written down the colors for all the different wraps. That might come back to haunt me. I'm pretty sure I can come up with most of them, but I might get stumped on some of them. It was easier back with graphite since I used fewer colors and the same ones over and over again, but even with them it can be problematic. I used the wrong green on a repair, once. Made me sick. Someone mentioned the finish has to be in the equation too, obviously so given my experience with different varnishes and previously with epoxy. Probably epoxy is the only really consistent finish. I never worried about colors when I used epoxy. Varnish is a nightmare some times.

Well, I hope these links work and you can take a look. I think you will enjoy all the color possibilities with honey glass. Tomorrow I will order 15 more glass blanks and another half a dozen graphite, that should get me to spring. You can tell I am really enjoying the glass.

jgestar wrote:

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Jackpot. Both links work just fine. Yuku must have been having a hissy last night.


Tom

Yep, seems to be, Tom. Last night the links gave me the url not found error. I just figured posting a link to my catalog page was probably illegal. Maybe is? wouldn't be the first time I screwed up.

I'm honestly not drumming business. Hell, I've gotten so attached to those glass rods, I'd just as soon not sell any of them. They've been worlds of fun. After nearly 30 years of pushing high end graphite, it has been refreshing to get back to my beginnings. I've got them priced too damn high anyway.