Wapsi sells strips of Primo Deer Hair, resold under different brands.
Usually excellent for large spun-and-clipped patterns. Or try a local
hunter or taxidermist...
Cheers
Henk
On 23 Aug 2009, at 4:21, Alan Di Somma wrote:
I have tried to tie up some mouse patterns but I guess I don't
Check out big mice tutorials.You'll notice that the hair in the body is not
spun but is stacked in large bunches, not spun. That's how to make the whopper
pike mice patterns that are popular in Alaska. Often they are tied on two hooks
and articulated. If you have a Bench side reference, it will
from Jim Phillips
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Will send finger nail clippings next time I trim them. LOL
Here is how I do it.
After spinning the hair, take a couple of thread wraps in front of the spun
hair. Put thumb and first finger, finger nails up against the hair with the
hook shank between the nails. Now work your hand in a back and
Thanks Don. That is the info I have been looking for.
Thank you,
Alan Di Somma
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Thank you all for the info on deer hair.
I tied a couple of mice with the hair I have and they came out OK, thanks to
some really cool info from Don O.
They are small and I wanted to get a few to bring larger ones with me to Alaska.
I will check for Taxidesmists here in Phoenix.
Thank you,
Alan
Yeah I actually do something similar, but I still hit it w/ my brass packing
tool every 3 or 4 bunches. I don’t tie packed hair often enough, but I seem to
have more even dispersal using the packer.
J
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Tony,
that's basically ow I do it. No tools.
How do you keep it with the hook's shank? Do you lay a thread base in
the first step are are you spinng on the basre hook?
Rene
Anthony Spezio wrote:
Will send finger nail clippings next time I trim them. LOL
Here is how I do it.
After spinning the
Years ago, when I first got into fly tying a lot of the guys in the club gave
me some ideas.
One of them was to take the shaft of an old aluminum arrow that was bent and
cut a 6 length and debur the ends.
This way you have a lot of surface area to hold in your hand and still have a
big enough
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Heck of a tye Nick. mark.
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FROM MARK
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:39:40 -0600
Alan, as you may know.Wapsi is right here in town. One cannot buy direct
from them.you must go thru a fly shop that they supply. We have two here in
town. So if you need me to go get your
FROM MARK
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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:39:40 -0600
Alan, as you may know.Wapsi is right here in town. One cannot buy direct
from them.you must go thru a fly shop that they supply. We have two here in
town. So if you need me to go get your
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of the VFB, in this, their day of national mourning. The Ashes will remain in
England yet again. On that long, long return flight home, remember your
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Must be an Aussie/Brit thing?
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I would like to offer my deepest
Rene,
Being self thought I started spinning on a bare hook shank and that is the
way I have done it all the time except when I tried to spin on a thread covered
hook a couple of times. That did not suit me at all. I found I could not pack
the hair as tight as I would like.
If interested, I can
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