Thanks Raptight & Billy40 - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Goose · 02-06-2005, 02:02 PM

Had the oppertunity to get together with some of the fine thread Misters of the North East. Like many guys on this board, Mike & Billy where eager to show first hand their wrapping skills and technics, with alot of patience too I might add. Thanks for the hospitality, good food 'killa cheese cake' and making it happen...felt right at home.
Tony

DRUMCORPFAN · 02-07-2005, 09:46 AM

10-4 on that tony, mike and billy are always willing to share. nice to see other builders who share the passion of rod building it is an art form. thanks again guys next time lets get togather to fish.

Andiesean · 02-07-2005, 06:27 PM

I headed up Rapt Tite's house in Mass. Saturday for a thread art class hosted by Rapt Tite and Billy40.

Many thanks to Mike and Billy for sharing their time and knowledge. It was great meeting everyone, food was great, I liked that chili. Great raffle also, I won a very nice Striped Bass money clip, a custom Striper Sniper plug(Neil makes some sweet plugs), and a RodMaker Magazine apron. I also bought some nice metallic threads, and a much needed thread tool.

Best part though, was the thread art knowledge I gained. Watching Billy close the wrap, very helpful to me. And also Billy showed me how to use Visual Wrap script builder. That was alot easier to use than I thought, going to start playing with that, nice feature. Visual Wrap is one great program!! One other thing I am still trying to learn is thread tension. Mike and Billy use completely different tensions. I think I am going to try a little more than Mike, but a little less than Billy on my next wrap.

Once again, many thanks to Mike and Billy, the knowledge I learned from these gatherings has/will help my wrapping greatly!!!! Can't wait to make a few butt wraps and post the pics. I got some ideas in my head.

Also saw some of Mike's wraps, some really wild wraps, good stuff!!!

Sean

Rapt Tite · 02-07-2005, 09:11 PM

I had a good time too, but the "thanks" should go to you and the others for helping out, just by being there...taking the risk to meet other builders in your neighborhood.