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The person selling this material said that it would easily wrap around the diameter of a wooden pencil.  Unfortunately, he is selling it $2/ft plus shipping.  I got over a pound of regular tungsten wire without any plating to practice with.  

I ran some numbers on the cost of a gold plated tungsten wire wrap.  The frog end of my carbon bow is 0.36” thick.  Assuming a 1.5 inch long wrap and a wire thickness of 0.01” I would need 150 wraps.  This equates to 170 inches of wire, or about 14 feet.  At a cost of $2 per foot, the material cost of the wrap is $28.  No cheap, but doable.

I just purchased over a pound of 99.5 percent pure tungsten wire (sort of a grey color). I don’t think that I will be able to use a wrap machine with it, since it appears to work harden very quickly.  Hand wrapping should work fine, since it can bend around a tight radius without a problem.  

Another concern is that Andreas Grütter wrote that when he removes silver wrap on older bows (designed to work with gut strings), their sound dramatically improves.  I don’t want to spend the time on split bamboo bows, and damage the sound with a wrap.

I will surely try it on something, and will provide a picture or two for sure.

It is strange that gold is the standard as a bow wrapping material, and I cannot find any reference on the use of tungsten, which has an identical density.

I have just learned that my 0.010” diameter tungsten wire is 28 gauge.