I read about a method of adding a single trim wrap by using super glue to bind down both ends of the wrap. I can see how this could be done with a metallic thread, but could you also do it with nylon thread?
Bruce
I have tried it with the super glue method and with the cross-over method and the latter works best for me. Admittedly, I didn’t fiddle with the super glue method very long, but the cross-over method has become quick and easy after doing it a few times.
With regular nylon, you either have to be using the barest hint of super glue or be planning to use color preserver or you will get a spot where the color is different.
Kevin,
For the benefit of us novices can you describe the cross over method?
Thanks
Cliff
Before you start your main wrap, you wrap the trim around the blank one time, allowing the ends to “cross over” each other. The wrap is out of your way to the left (I wrap from left to right) and the tags are out of your way to the right and taped down to make them behave.
Start your main wrap. After a few turns, 5-7 for me, you can snug the single turn up. Use a toothpick or bodkin where the single turn crosses over to keep the thread from pulling under the main wrap.
Trim the tags and continue your main wrap.
If you want the single turn on the inside, too, pause your main wrap a few turns from the end and make a single turn again with the tags headed off to the left. Slip the tags under the main wrap thread that is going onto the blank and finish the main wrap. Once the main wrap is finished off, you snug up the single turn like you did on the other end and trim the tags.
There are a lot of really cool tutorials on thread work here. There are enough different techniques for various trim wraps that you are bound to find one that works for you.
Kelly,
Thanks for the description and the great link!
Cliff