----- Original Message ----- From: "Byard Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:48 AM Subject: [VFB] Whiting Co-op Swap
> > >Do this swap through Byard for purchasing the saddles . He can order what > >he doesn't have. > >He may even be able to divide the necks and send them to the individual > >swappers. Mind you, I'm not volunteering him for anything. > > > > THANKS DonO...and yes that was stated factitiously...;^) It never > fails...a surprise always awaits my return! > > OK folks here are my suggestions... > > I get to weasel out of the drudgery due to a contract that I signed > with Whiting Farms that forbids the changing of any packaging. For > instance, I am not allowed to divide a full cape into a half cape...I > must purchase the partial capes from Whiting. So plucking and sorting > and dividing is contractually disallowed...<VBG> > > Since there appears to be quite a bit of interest in a Whiting Co-op > Swap I'll use the following numbers scenario. It can of course be > adjusted. Twelve swappers join in...six full bronze saddles of > different colors are purchased (hopefully from Line's End...<g>). You > discuss amongst yourselves which six participants get to do the grunt > work. Each of those six receives one of the saddles and twelve long > zip-locks. They will pluck out all of the dry fly feathers and divide > them equitably among the twelve bags and mail them out to the rest of > the group. Those six will be doing all the work but there will be a > benefit for their labors...they get to keep the plucked cape which > contains some nice webby bugger hackle and fluffy marabou. > > Each bronze saddle will hackle a minimum of 500 dry flies. I just > randomly picked a bronze saddle and counted 220 usable feathers...at > a very conservative five flies per feather that actually equates to > 1100 flies. But using this as an example you should each get about 18 > feathers per color, which exceeds the quantity in a typical 100 pack. > > The only stumbling block that I foresee is the postal cost from > plucker to swapper. It should only cost about sixty cents per > mailing...or $6.60 per batch. I guess if you each ante up an extra > $4, I could forward a portion of the cash with each of the saddles > being sent to the pluckers. > > The cost for each participant would be $24 (6 saddles @$40 + the > extra postage, divided by 12), for which you would each receive the > equivalent of six 'fat' 100 packs...a $66 value. > > Looks like it could work. We are now open for discussion. > > keep tyin'...byard >
