Okay so I've tried my luck at mohawks using 26ga cores and 36ga wraps. Any tips? Far as I can tell a lot of it comes down to the stretch on the decore. Not enough and it wants to wind up as-is, too much and it won't mohawk the way it's supposed to and fold around the cores. Is there a key to determining how much to stretch it?
I tried not prestretching it and just doing it as it goes figuring it doesn't need stretched as much though that didn't turn out well. How does one go about getting a consistent stretch on the decore so the middle isn't coiled tighter than the ends (the tendency when stretching out a coil, the two ends stretch first and the middle is left all but unstretched). I got a few places about an inch, inch and a half long to finally fall into rhythm and layer nicely before it screwed up again. My cores are usually around 16-17" long, is it easier working with shorter runs?
Naturally Murphy's Law made its appearance. Most of the time I make tricore fused claptons and the pain in the ass is keeping the cores flat without bunching. Hey, mohawks are essentially a collapsed alien so easy right? I mean the cores always want to collapse anyway. Nope, not when making mohawks. All the sudden the cores want to lay nice and flat with no keepers whatsoever. At this point I think the wire is just fucking with me and having a laugh. lol.
I tried not prestretching it and just doing it as it goes figuring it doesn't need stretched as much though that didn't turn out well. How does one go about getting a consistent stretch on the decore so the middle isn't coiled tighter than the ends (the tendency when stretching out a coil, the two ends stretch first and the middle is left all but unstretched). I got a few places about an inch, inch and a half long to finally fall into rhythm and layer nicely before it screwed up again. My cores are usually around 16-17" long, is it easier working with shorter runs?
Naturally Murphy's Law made its appearance. Most of the time I make tricore fused claptons and the pain in the ass is keeping the cores flat without bunching. Hey, mohawks are essentially a collapsed alien so easy right? I mean the cores always want to collapse anyway. Nope, not when making mohawks. All the sudden the cores want to lay nice and flat with no keepers whatsoever. At this point I think the wire is just fucking with me and having a laugh. lol.