Bedlam, I'm not a great rod builder but I've been doing it for 12 years now and the last rod I build I ended up redoing every wrap on the whole rod save one before I was done, just to satisfy myself. It goes with the territory. The blue and gold theme with silver hardware doesn't bother me as long as they go well with the color of the blank. Bottom line, though, is it has to look right to you...if you aren't sure, you probably want to use silver instead. That would look sharp, too.
Welcome to rod building. It's a blast, and like all things fly fishing, highly addictive. And that's okay.
A right emblem it may be, of the uncertain things of this world; that when men have sold them selves for them, they vanish into smoke. ~ William Bradford
I finally realized that Life is a metaphor for Fly Fishing.