That is a lot of work..there's a much simpler way and no waiting for it to dry. Take your yarn, synthetics and put that with pinches of the flash, hair, whatever you want to mix on one brush. Rub the other brush against it, like old fashioned wool cards. It takes a few minutes of rubbing the dubbing makings back and forth between the brushes, and voila! perfect dubbing ready to use. Surely beats the water method and the mess that brings. I'd never go back to the messy, sloppy water method. Don't mean to rain on your parade, but this way is SO much easier and simpler. Joyce
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Don Ordes <[email protected]> wrote: > I just tried something that worked well. Has anyone else done this? > Beats getting dubbing in my espresso via my coffee grinder. I found one > hit on the internnet so it is not novel, but I also don't think it is as > common as the coffee grinder method. > > I needed to blend some rabbit-dubbing with some ice-dub, flash dub, & quick > descent. I needed a good blend and no lumps in the blend. So I filled up a > tupperware dish about the size of a coffee-cup with hot tap-water. I added > the rabbit dubbing and then chopped up the other 3 dubbings over the > container. > > I stirred until everything broke up and was a well blended soup, than I > drained almost all of the water out, leaving the dubbing. I stirred it one > more time to make sure the quick-descent was mixed in, then I poured it all > out through a paper towel to strain it and then used the paper towel to soak > up all of the extra water. > > The result was a damp glob of well-blended hilited part-natural dubbing. > Working with it damp gave me a very tight well-defined segment. But I'm > letting the rest dry so I can fluff it a bit and tie some fuzzy hares ears > that have cool colors mixed in with the rabbit. These colors will > accentuate the segments more and give the fly some flash in place of the > gold rib, which always get bitten loose. > > DonO > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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
