Weaving Question

Rusty Byrley · Senior Member

Weaving Question

Trey Shaw · Senior Member

The power wrapper just makes a bit quicker..... but on a weave I wouldn't think by very much. Considering your moving thread back and forth, and placing spiral wraps over and under the thread you move

-- Edited by Trey Shaw on Sunday 21st of February 2010 02:47:43 PM

Paul Lindsey · Senior Member

Definitely do not need a power wrapper
Paul

Rusty Byrley · Senior Member

The reason I ask is because you can keep dead stop your rod with a powerwrapper where as you cannot doing it with a hand wrapper, or am I wrong about that.

Terry Goode · Guru

i have seen one hand wrapper that holds tension on the rod , it has a forward facing v slot's but cant think of the name dang it.

MaryLouVandeRiet · Senior Member

I have the flexcoat handwrappers and I can stop the wrap anytime I want to.....I had a power wrapper, but perfer to handwrap....

MaryLou~~

Raymond Adams · Senior Member

Power is of no use when doing weaves except for the fact that the rod is locked in a chuck and cannot slide left or right. All the thread work is done slowly and turned by hand though & I often use my hand wrappers for weaving so my rod lathe is free for other rod work. A weave can unnecessarily tie up my power wrapper for a long time!

Allen Pierce · Member

I have seen folks attach a big rubber band to the hand wrapper over the rod to keep a bit of tension on the rod if needed. But I did many weaves on my hand wrapper just using the velcro strap provided to keep the rod still.

Terry Goode · Guru

i use the "big rubber band method", heheh