The best way to make a rod wrapper on the cheap (freeish) is to ....
1) buy a 24 box of beer.Remove beer and place into fridge
2) Cut 2 notches, one on each side of the opening of the box for the rod to sit into.
3) Get bible off the shelf and blow dust off it.
4) Put bible into box and run thread through the pages close to the spine and up to the rod sitting in the notches.
5) You can adjust the tension on the thread by moving the thread deeper into the book.
6) Do all the tread wrapping then apply the epoxy.
7) turn the rod 125 deg starting every 30 sec for 5 min, the every minute for 10 min then every 5 min for 30 min then every 10 min for a couple of hours. by the time you have finished drinking all the beer the rod will be perfect.
I have seen some amazing rods build using this method.