[VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair.

2009-08-27 Thread chuckalexander
@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 5:30 PM Subject: [VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair. 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

[VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair

2009-08-25 Thread Anthony Spezio
Yea and you two guys kept bailing while I ran the outboard. Tony --- On Mon, 8/24/09, Rene Zillmann rene.zillm...@t-online.de wrote: From: Rene Zillmann rene.zillm...@t-online.de Subject: [VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 3:34 PM Yup

[VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Marriner
There are times for both methods of spinning hair, bare hook or thread covered. When spun on a bare hook, the hair can rotate (for example when rubbing-in floatant) more easily after the fly is complete. If, for example when tying Bombers, one wants to add a palmered hackle, this rotation can

[VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair.

2009-08-24 Thread Rene Zillmann
wool will pack just as tight. Tony --- On *Sun, 8/23/09, Rene Zillmann /rene.zillm...@t-online.de/* wrote: From: Rene Zillmann rene.zillm...@t-online.de Subject: [VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair. To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 9:46 AM Tony

[VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair

2009-08-24 Thread Anthony Spezio
...@t-online.de Subject: [VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 1:05 PM Tony, Paul, thanks for your answers. I've got somehow a similar experience with this. When I started to try spinning, I thought best will be the bare hook. And yes, the hair

[VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair.

2009-08-23 Thread Anthony Spezio
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

[VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair.

2009-08-23 Thread J Balmer
Of Anthony Spezio Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:06 AM To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: [VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair. 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

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2009-08-23 Thread Rene Zillmann
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

[VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair.

2009-08-23 Thread Alan Di Somma
to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night? - Original Message - From: J Balmer To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 7:46 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair. Yeah I actually do something similar, but I still hit it w/ my brass

[VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair.

2009-08-23 Thread Anthony Spezio
: [VFB] Re: tools now Packing Hair. To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 9:46 AM 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