I'm in the process of building my first rod with a kit I bought from cabela's. It's an 8wt, SLi. I've been taking it slow since I'm trying to learn it as I go. The thread colors that cabela's gives you in the kits are not that appealing so I'm trying to decide on what color I want to make it. Which leads me to my question. Would it be ok to use metallic thread as the only thread to wrap my guides? So far I have experimented with wrapping with the metallic thread that came in the kit and it seems to be somewhat stiff and less easy to work with. Tucking the metallic thread gave me problems that I didn't encounter when using the regular thread. It seemed brittle and frayed on me.

So should I just find a color in regular thread that I like, is there something I can do to make using the metallic thread easier to work with, or do I just need to be more patient with metallic threads?