: Propriety secrets. I could tell you but then I'd have to kill ya!
: ;)

: Seriously, I just used a sleeve from Soller. Talk to him about what
: you're planning and he'll set you up. I've had issues trying to
: use heat-shrink tubing so I vacuum-bagged it to the cedar core.
: I didn't realize that his colored sleeves are stiffer than the
: plain CF. It conformed to the blade but it wouldn't wrap tightly
: to the loom. It left some ridges on the loom which looked like
: crap so I filed the loom smooth and then laminated on the uni-CF
: (2" wide tape). The tape is there to pretty-up the
: transition from the uni to the pink.

THanks for the "trade secrets" kinda what I figured, the first one I carve will be just wood but after that I can see one of those beauts in the cards.

dave g