Re: [VFB] My Whip Finisher/Off Topic answer, sorta
It's not just the drought Chuck from what I understand from a few folks that know is that the government also cut the amount the subsidize peanuts in this area this year and alot of the farmers decided to grow crops that yield higher returns. On 12/27/11, Chuck Alexander chuckalexan...@centurylink.net wrote: Tony: We hope to make it, but I don't know. As most of you know, my wife and I (mostly her) own a Boiled (and Roasted) peanut stand as a business. Anyway, at the beginning of this Summer, peanuts went from $48 for a 50 pound bag to $55. Then, about October I guess it was, they went to $65 a bag. Then yesterday, she went to pick some up and they were $87 per 50 pound bag. Her prices have been the same for over 5 yeasr, but she is going to HAVE to go up now, so we'll have to see if it affects business. That's about a 91% increase in less than 6 months if my math is correct. Anybody here who likes peanuts or peanut butter, better stock up. They said that it was mainly cause of the draught in Texas and other states out that way. I didn't know Texas raised that many peanuts, but I guess they do. Chuck -- Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing - After they have exhausted all other possibilities. --Winston Churchill Robert Morger Central Texas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
Re: [VFB] My Whip Finisher/Off Topic answer, sorta
Robert: yeah, sadly, all that stuff, from peanuts, corn, pork bellies, wheat, oats and on and on are subsidized, and are also traded on the futures markets that usually keeps the prices artificially high, Chuck - Original Message - From: Robert Morger rmor...@gmail.com To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] My Whip Finisher/Off Topic answer, sorta It's not just the drought Chuck from what I understand from a few folks that know is that the government also cut the amount the subsidize peanuts in this area this year and alot of the farmers decided to grow crops that yield higher returns. On 12/27/11, Chuck Alexander chuckalexan...@centurylink.net wrote: Tony: We hope to make it, but I don't know. As most of you know, my wife and I (mostly her) own a Boiled (and Roasted) peanut stand as a business. Anyway, at the beginning of this Summer, peanuts went from $48 for a 50 pound bag to $55. Then, about October I guess it was, they went to $65 a bag. Then yesterday, she went to pick some up and they were $87 per 50 pound bag. Her prices have been the same for over 5 yeasr, but she is going to HAVE to go up now, so we'll have to see if it affects business. That's about a 91% increase in less than 6 months if my math is correct. Anybody here who likes peanuts or peanut butter, better stock up. They said that it was mainly cause of the draught in Texas and other states out that way. I didn't know Texas raised that many peanuts, but I guess they do. Chuck -- Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing - After they have exhausted all other possibilities. --Winston Churchill Robert Morger Central Texas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4707 - Release Date: 12/27/11 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
Re: [VFB] My Whip Finisher
Tony: Yeah, i think that if i saw somebody whip finish by hand in person i could do it, but on a DVD it seems to be like a mirror, ie backwards when you look at it. I'm gonna play my DVD's and try it again. or just get my wife to teach me LOL... Chuck - Original Message - From: Anthony Spezio To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] My Whip Finisher Chuck, Don't feel bad, I have never mastered the Thompson Whip Finished easither. The other types I can do real good but not that one. Come to the Sowbug in March and I bet I can show you how so you can do it by hand. Tony From: Chuck Alexander chuckalexan...@centurylink.net To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 1:09 AM Subject: [VFB] My Whip Finisher Folks: here's the only whip finisher I have ever been able to use. When I started tying, almost 7 years ago now, I ordered a starter kit from Cabelas, and it has a whip finisher like the one in the link here. http://www.cabelas.com/tools-vises-cabelas-stainless-steel-whip-finisher-1.shtml?WT.tsrc=CSEWT.mc_id=GoogleBaseUSAWT.z_mc_id1=741770rid=40mr:trackingCode=1F809052-F5D2-DF11-82EF-001B21631C34mr:referralID=NA But it is just t flimsy for me, and the thread comes lose every time. So, I took a steel clothes hanger, a coffee stirrer, and two plastic craft beads and made the one in the photo attached . The beads are glued in place, but the straw is not, to allow it to spin and I have tied whip finishes with this thing from size 28 all the way to about sized 2/0, and in less than five seconds, so even though I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it, i have watched at LEAST 100 videos from DVD's to YouTube, to websites etc, showing how to whip finish by hand, I cannot seem to get the hang of it. My wife however, who does NOT tie flies, watched one of the Poul Jorgenson videos I have and he shows how to hand tie the whip finished by hand, in slow, step by step's, and my wife was able to tie a whip finish knot by hand on about her second try. Me. Like I said, I'm still trying to learn LOL.. I don't feel that I miss anything cause like I say, i can tie one with my hand made doo dad here in 5 seconds or less, but learning to tie the knot by hand IS on my bucket list. I need to dig out the Jorgenson (or Tony's as he shows a good step by step on one of his videos as well i think) video, sit down with my wife and let her teach me. Chuck If anybody is interested in a home made one like mine, I have them for $29.95 plus $9.95 SH ROFL...Or, I'll knock off 2 bucks if you provide your own coffee stirrer LOL... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4697 - Release Date: 12/22/11 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
Re: [VFB] My Whip Finisher
Thanks.. Yeah, it's amazing what a Po Boy can do with coat hangers and duct tape LOL, Chuck - Original Message - From: Eric Worm To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 5:28 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] My Whip Finisher Chuck- Love the home brew finisher! Pun intended :) Eric Worm Reed City, MI 49677 And when it all goes well, when your dog does the difficult and does it with style, what you get isn't a bagged bird but the honor of sharing a moment of penultimate drama starring the dog you love and the bird you love. That is a taste of heaven, friends, and it's why the dog man hunts. And frankly, most of us kick through one hell of a lot of weeds between glimpses of Heaven. -Steve Grooms -- From: Chuck Alexander chuckalexan...@centurylink.net To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, December 23, 2011 2:09:48 AM Subject: [VFB] My Whip Finisher Folks: here's the only whip finisher I have ever been able to use. When I started tying, almost 7 years ago now, I ordered a starter kit from Cabelas, and it has a whip finisher like the one in the link here. http://www.cabelas.com/tools-vises-cabelas-stainless-steel-whip-finisher-1.shtml?WT.tsrc=CSEWT.mc_id=GoogleBaseUSAWT.z_mc_id1=741770rid=40mr:trackingCode=1F809052-F5D2-DF11-82EF-001B21631C34mr:referralID=NA But it is just t flimsy for me, and the thread comes lose every time. So, I took a steel clothes hanger, a coffee stirrer, and two plastic craft beads and made the one in the photo attached . The beads are glued in place, but the straw is not, to allow it to spin and I have tied whip finishes with this thing from size 28 all the way to about sized 2/0, and in less than five seconds, so even though I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it, i have watched at LEAST 100 videos from DVD's to YouTube, to websites etc, showing how to whip finish by hand, I cannot seem to get the hang of it. My wife however, who does NOT tie flies, watched one of the Poul Jorgenson videos I have and he shows how to hand tie the whip finished by hand, in slow, step by step's, and my wife was able to tie a whip finish knot by hand on about her second try. Me. Like I said, I'm still trying to learn LOL.. I don't feel that I miss anything cause like I say, i can tie one with my hand made doo dad here in 5 seconds or less, but learning to tie the knot by hand IS on my bucket list. I need to dig out the Jorgenson (or Tony's as he shows a good step by step on one of his videos as well i think) video, sit down with my wife and let her teach me. Chuck If anybody is interested in a home made one like mine, I have them for $29.95 plus $9.95 SH ROFL...Or, I'll knock off 2 bucks if you provide your own coffee stirrer LOL... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4705 - Release Date: 12/26/11 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
Re: [VFB] My Whip Finisher
Chuck, Don't feel bad, I have never mastered the Thompson Whip Finished easither. The other types I can do real good but not that one. Come to the Sowbug in March and I bet I can show you how so you can do it by hand. Tony From: Chuck Alexander chuckalexan...@centurylink.net To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 1:09 AM Subject: [VFB] My Whip Finisher Folks: here's the only whip finisher I have ever been able to use. When I started tying, almost 7 years ago now, I ordered a starter kit from Cabelas, and it has a whip finisher like the one in the link here. http://www.cabelas.com/tools-vises-cabelas-stainless-steel-whip-finisher-1.shtml?WT.tsrc=CSEWT.mc_id=GoogleBaseUSAWT.z_mc_id1=741770rid=40mr:trackingCode=1F809052-F5D2-DF11-82EF-001B21631C34mr:referralID=NA But it is just t flimsy for me, and the thread comes lose every time. So, I took a steel clothes hanger, a coffee stirrer, and two plastic craft beads and made the one in the photo attached . The beads are glued in place, but the straw is not, to allow it to spin and I have tied whip finishes with this thing from size 28 all the way to about sized 2/0, and in less than five seconds, so even though I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it, i have watched at LEAST 100 videos from DVD's to YouTube, to websites etc, showing how to whip finish by hand, I cannot seem to get the hang of it. My wife however, who does NOT tie flies, watched one of the Poul Jorgenson videos I have and he shows how to hand tie the whip finished by hand, in slow, step by step's, and my wife was able to tie a whip finish knot by hand on about her second try. Me. Like I said, I'm still trying to learn LOL.. I don't feel that I miss anything cause like I say, i can tie one with my hand made doo dad here in 5 seconds or less, but learning to tie the knot by hand IS on my bucket list. I need to dig out the Jorgenson (or Tony's as he shows a good step by step on one of his videos as well i think) video, sit down with my wife and let her teach me. Chuck If anybody is interested in a home made one like mine, I have them for $29.95 plus $9.95 SH ROFL...Or, I'll knock off 2 bucks if you provide your own coffee stirrer LOL... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VFB Mail group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
