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.

Hi Fiddlerman.  Thanks for the comment.  I like the way it looks without plating.  Material is immune from corrosion so acidic fingers will not be a problem.  Should not cause allergic reactions either.  The melting point is 6,200 F (actually, it never melts.  It vaporizes).

Next stop is to see if I can tig weld the coils together and grind ends away without burning the wood.

Steveduf mentioned that he had seen a whale bone wrap started by the use of a small hole in the stick.  I could do the same with the tungsten.  I could overwrap the other end with silk thread, which would be hidden under the leather grip.  

I think that the argon gas used to create an oxygen free environment during tig welding would keep the stick from burning, but the above should be an acceptable back up plan.