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finishing a bar wrap

Boy, I've just never liked the electrical tape type stuff they supply with bar wrap. It doesn't stay on. It gets wrinkled or twisted. It's ugly. I've been borrowing a technique from ancient golf clubmaking called "whipping." ("ancient" because nobody uses actual wooden woods anymore, and the metals don't need whipping)

I've supplied a picture here. It uses nylon cord with each end tucked under the previous turns. There's a special (simple) technique to turn the ends under. The picture shown was a little more tedious because the wrap stopped at one of those in-line brakes on the bar tops.

I wonder if others have favorite ways besides that yucky electrical tape stuff,
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