Never heard of that, I use my old tooth brushes to apply glue to the bamboo
splines when gluing up a rod.
Will have to try them for color shading sometime, sounds like a winner.
Tony
--- On Fri, 11/5/10, Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com> wrote:
From: Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com>
Subject: Re: [VFB] RE: Rope dubbing- color shading tip
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 2:57 PM
Wayne,
Save all of your old tooth brushes. One cool
trick I found, not really related to rope-dubing, is to color an old toothbrush
with permanent marker,
then quick-like (before it dries) brush out a
rope or even finished fly. It leaves hues and shades of color that
can't be blended in beforehand. The under-rope and segments are hilited
because the color is added to the humps only if you do it after you
wrap.
Say you want a stonefly with a darker brown back
and a tan belly. Rope the fly out tan and then brush on the top color
right where you want it, to the darkness you want, even graduating or blending
colors. Using the marker itself tends to saturate in and then bleed
out (yuk), but the tooth-brush carries only enough color to the fly to
highlight
and shade it.
Or, once you have your yellow rope formed and brushed out, hit it with a
toothbrush colored with pink marker. Will give pink hi-lites without
actually coloring the yellow over to pink. (like blending, but frosting the
tips
only)
I do a normal tooth-brush with three colors to a brush and keep them right
there with the markers. Coloring with stiff toothbrushes also fuzzes out
the dubbing.
I know. I know. Someone will say someone else does this or did
it 1st. I've never seen it. Don't doubt it. Can't address
it. Don't care who was first. It's just a thing I do that I'm
sharing. Been using hiliters for 30 years, been brushing on colors for
that long. End of story.
Works for all nymphs, stones, dries, eggs, whatever.
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From:
Wayne
Blake-Hedges
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 1:38
PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] RE: Rope dubbing a
Tups Indsipensible- comparisons
Hi DonO;
Your reply is almost as funny as the recipie. I'm told the
original recipie was quite effective though.
Wayneb
--- On Fri, 11/5/10, Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com>
wrote:
From:
Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com>
Subject: Re:
[VFB] RE: Rope dubbing a Tups Indsipensible- comparisons
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Date:
Friday, November 5, 2010, 2:47 PM
Wow, I thought Buggs smoked some good
stuff!
A good reason not to get any wool pulled
over your eyes by Mr. Tups.
Does changing this method cause any
ramifications?
Eeeewwe, ba-a-a-a-a-d,
no-kidding.
Buggs
----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Blake-Hedges
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010
12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] RE: Rope
dubbing a Tups Indsipensible- comparisons
Hi DonO;
True Tups dubbing is made from the wool on a ram's
testicles. It was urine stained and also pink stained
from red dye placed on the ewe's nether regions. When a
Ram performed his "duty", he would get some red dye mixed
with the urine stained wool around his testicles producing a
pinkish, translucent wool.
The dubbing blend I'm using provides the closest
substutue many have found to date.
I'll have to try rope dubbing and then brushing and see
if I can obtain similar results to what I'm getting now.
Wayneb
--- On Fri, 11/5/10, Don Ordes
<f...@tribcsp.com> wrote:
From:
Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com>
Subject: Re: [VFB] RE:
Rope dubbing a Tups Indsipensible- comparisons
To:
vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, November 5, 2010,
1:17 PM
By 'sacred' means no
substitutions allowed, which makes fly-tying pretty
pagan.
Don't forget your wire brush-
before or after you wrap.
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From:
Wayne Blake-Hedges
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday,
November 05, 2010 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [VFB]
RE: Rope dubbing a Tups Indsipensible- comparisons
Hi DonO;
What do you mean by "sacred" are you
reffering to the true "Tups" blend or what I'm
using?
It's amazing how many variations you see of
this pattern, not only that it was tied as a dry
fly, wet fly and as a nymph. I'm trying to
tie a "Tups Flymph" type pattern and the
dubbing blend I'm using gives me the result I
desire. One thing I have thought of that would
allow me to better use the rope dubbing technique
is, to keep the wool fibers longer than indicated
in
the recipie.
Wayneb
--- On Thu, 11/4/10, Don Ordes
<f...@tribcsp.com> wrote:
From:
Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com>
Subject: Re:
[VFB] RE: Rope dubbing a Tups Indsipensible-
comparisons
To:
vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday,
November 4, 2010, 3:57 PM
Wayne, here is one I
pulled from the internet ^
Here's yours
V
How 'sacred' is the
dubbing blend- material and color?
DonO
----- Original
Message -----
From:
Wayne
Blake-Hedges
To: virtual flybox
Sent:
Thursday, November 04, 2010 1:46 PM
Subject:
[VFB] RE: Rope dubbing a Tups
Indsipensible
Hi Dono;
Here's a photo I have of some earlier
attempts:
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii179/Waynebh/IMGP0015.jpg
The fly is composed of Gutermans sewing
silk abdomen, with a home made wool dubbing
from
the following reciepie: To prepare the
dubbing, cut off approximately 25 inches of
natural-shade (#098) "Fisherman's Wool". This
is
available from Lion Brand Yarn Company
(http://www.LionBrand.com).
Next, cut off 3 inches of True Red (#114) yarn,
also available from Lion Brand. The dull orange
(needle felting) wool comes from Felt Works
Dimensions and is available from many craft
stores. Take the lengths of Fisherman's Wool
and
red yarn and cut into half-inch pieces. First
blend the Fisherman's Wool, then the red wool,
then combine the two and mix again in a
blender.
Once these are blended, tease out approximately
1 inch of cheddar-shade needle felting wool and
cut into quarter-inch pieces. Blend with the
previous two. This results in a creamy pink
dubbing with just a hint of dull orange
scattered faintly throughout the wad."
I
know you can touch dub using a rope dub method,
it was just not working for me.
Wayneb
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