Ok, I have an SCV ready to wrap but I tried litterally 20 color combos last night and couldn't find a combo I really liked.

2 questions:

What color thread comes on the Legend Elites?

Have any of you built a SCV blank in the brownish pearl glittery finish, and what colors have looked nice on it. (I didn't know the color before I bought it)

Thanks for any ideas!

Keith

flechero,

Try the Gudebrod #5274 Chestnut....

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Thanks for the suggestion!  I should have guessed that it would be a color I don't have!!  ...lol

LOL that figures..... ;D

I use to build on the SC e-glass series when it was a honey gold colored blank. I placed gold guides and used the Chestnut w/gold trim made the rod a real looker. I don't know how close to this coloring the Elite blanks comes, but that Chestnut thread was just right. If you are building on that color of blank then I would get some of the contrasting brown colors.

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If you are building on that color of blank then I would get some of the contrasting brown colors.

That what I was thinking... I have several browns in both regular nylon and NCP.  The browns and garnet look pretty good but can't find a trim color I like.

Gold metallic would be good but the guides are Ti and it looks funny that way.

flechero,

What color hood on the seat? I sometimes try to keep the trims matching with the seat hood.

If the guides are Ti, are they gunsmoke colored? I can't remember.

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The Ti guide frames are about the same look as stainless (not chrome) and I got a stainless hood.  The match almost perfectly.  

I picked up a spool of the Pewter metallic thread... it almost has a brown tint to it and doesn't look at all like pewter... maybe I can use it with one of the browns or grays or garnet.  

I just have to wrap a few more combinations and pick something.  This is the only part of rodbuilding I don't enjoy, because I am horrible with colors.  ...lol  

flechero,

The Ti guide frames are about the same look as stainless (not chrome) and I got a stainless hood

Then I would use the silver for my trims, or inlays.

I just have to wrap a few more combinations and pick something.

That's part of the reason I like building stealthy (almost plane jane) looking rods. I hate trying to pick colors I let the boss do the color picking with a customer. That and I hate having to spend the time to wrap and wet the examples... :

If I had my way all of my rods would be black on black on black....

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If I had my way all of my rods would be black on black on black

I'm just about to that point!

I had my first BIG rodbuilding surprise last night.  I finally settled on Med. Brown with Scarlet trim... yes I know it sounds nuts but it looked awesome when wetted, it turned into dark brown and garnet which looked realy good on that blank.  Well for the first time so far, the Threadmaster and water did not agree on final color.  The med brown went almost crystal clear... I can even see the tiny glittler in the blank through it.  I guess this could have been a bad experience... it turned out ok because it still looks good but is very subtle.  

The lesson for me here is when trying a new color on an expensive blank, wrap a few colors and then go ahead and put some finish on them to see final colors!  (or just stick to matte black and gray blanks!)

flechero,

The lesson for me here is when trying a new color on an expensive blank, wrap a few colors and then go ahead and put some finish on them to see final colors!  (or just stick to matte black and gray blanks!

My quote....

I hate having to spend the time to wrap and wet the examples...

my mistake I should have said that my examples were actually finished on scrap blanks. I try to keep old scrap blank pieces around in the color of the blanks that I use (mostly in matte black and charcoal).

I think once you get more experienced at this addiction you will start to standardize your blank purchase's (you will stick to SC3, SC4, etc.)

I know that after I built my Shikäri PMB704 jig rod I never looked at the ($136.75) SHX blanks again and only fished it once. I standardized my blanks to the SC3 in the 5'6" to 7'6" lengths found that for what my customers and myself were using the rods for the blanks were plenty efficient.

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