L-dog nice job on the rod and thanks for the how to on the single thread inlay. I've been wondering how that's done.

I'm guessing color preserver has to be used with the inlay or the tag ends would be visible through the other wraps? I'd like to do a metallic silver inlay with garnet wraps on a dark charcoal blank that I have. But I wasn't planning on using color preserver. Is this possible?