I've had terrific luck with Mud Hole. Great product selection, good prices and excellent service. I've made a few rods on yellow blanks and I've found that garnet colored thread with no color preserver makes a very pretty rod. If you use color preserver, then the thread tends to retain it's original color when you apply the epoxy coating. If you don't use color preserver, the garnet thread turns a dark almost translucent mahogany color that looks great with yellow. Just one man's opinion.

Jim Smith