I got my kit today and already have questions...

Reel seat (downlocking but that will not make any difference) is about 3 and 1/4 inch long. I need to build up the blank about 1/8 of an inch to get a good fit. The graphite arbors or polyurathene shims will not work of course so I am using masking tape. My question is how to do this correctly. Do I wrap three bands - one at each and and one in the middle or should this be solid wrap? If only bands then do I fill that space with epoxy or leave it hollow?

Thanks.