Tips For Consistent Wrap Size

[jlang95]

How's it going guys. What tips do you guys have for making your wraps consistent? I've gotten pretty decent at wrapping. My wraps are tight, smooth and pretty clean looking for a beginner in my opinion. But I struggle with getting consistent size wraps. Any tips or you're guys method per se would be awesome!

Thank you

[Mattman]

I mark all of my wraps with masking tape.

[MikeK]

I mark all of my wraps with masking tape.

I recommend this in beginner classes.

If your wraps are real short you can count turns and be pretty close. I start most wraps 4 turns from the guide foot.

A couple other tips that I think add to appearance. Make both wraps on a double foot guide the same length. Sometimes the foot length on a running guide might be longer than the last reduction guide (Batson F and LY come to mind), so make the wrap on that reduction guide the same as the running guide wraps.

[jlang95]

I mark all of my wraps with masking tape.

Mattman do you get your guide set (tape/rubberband and then measure where you're wrap will begin and end and then mark it? I guess it would be pretty easy for me to do that since I use rubberband to hold my guides i could mark the start of my wrap with masking tape and then just wrap to my rubberband. I would have to make sure the rubber band is the same place on all the guides though.

[jlang95]

I mark all of my wraps with masking tape.

I recommend this in beginner classes.

If your wraps are real short you can count turns and be pretty close. I start most wraps 4 turns from the guide foot.

A couple other tips that I think add to appearance. Make both wraps on a double foot guide the same length. Sometimes the foot length on a running guide might be longer than the last reduction guide (Batson F and LY come to mind), so make the wrap on that reduction guide the same as the running guide wraps.

I usually have about 3/16" to a 1/4" of wrap before my guide foot. Would you say that's too much?

[Mattman]

I set all my guides in place with guide foot adhesive. Then I measure out my wrap starting points. The end comes naturally when you run out of guide foot. I generally start the wrap that is a distance equal to one-third the guide foot length.

[jlang95]

I set all my guides in place with guide foot adhesive. Then I measure out my wrap starting points. The end comes naturally when you run out of guide foot. I generally start the wrap that is a distance equal to one-third the guide foot length.

Okay I'll give that a try. So it seems like I've been making my wraps a lot bigger than I need. I'll try that out on my next rod. I have an Eternity2 7'2" on the way for a light worm and jig rod! I'm also going to try my hand at some crosswraps and then do some trim wraps for the guide wraps.