I call it playing the fade…basically I’m just padding a skinny string. When I first started to pad my skinny strings I did it with the same color the main string body had…but I decided to throw other colors into it. I just love the way the colors weave in an out of the loops and the fade areas.
Here is a photo of a normal 14 strand D-97 black/Mt. Berry (left) with a padded 10 strand (14 total) D-97 yellow/brown padded with 2 strand in each bundle of Royal Blue (as a MSU grad it hurt to put the blue/yellow in the same string).
The other day I had an order that called for two 8 strand strings…a D-97 and a 8125. I padded each to 16 per the request of the person who ordered the strings. I decided to use a blend of colors and I really like the way they turned out and took the time to take some photos.
Here is a D-97 8 strand Sunset Orange/yellow padded with 1 Fluorescent Yellow, 2 Mt. Berry and 1 Brown strand. Really like the way it turned out!
Here is the 8 strand 8125 Black/Mt. Berry padded with 1 Yellow, 2 Brown and 1 Kiwi…nice dark combo.
Here is a larger photo of both…the bump on the serving is the double served part of the serving…I have been double serving with .018 braided 62XS, I make the 2nd serving shorter than the first.
I guess I just like the way they turn out with the mixed colors.
As a side note my wife commented that they “actually looked good”…told her “that is what I was going for”!
Josh