John I agree with you 100%. Medallion sheeting is like zing wing only a little heavier. I got a life time supply from a tire shop. The tires came wrapped in the stuff. I got it several colours and thicknesses. I don't know what the proper name for it is or what company manufactures the stuff but I'm sure you don't have to buy Meddallion sheeting to tie Stalcup's fly patterns. Mel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the deal with this medallion sheeting? It looks to me to be a rehash of > wing zing or swiss straw! Another fine example of mr. stalcups ability to bilk > money out of unknowing flytiers by renaming a current product and selling it for > three times as much. Like his hoppper legs, all that stuff is is vinyl tubing with > red feather fibers stuck into, heat up vinyl tbing and crimp with seratted pliers > you have the same thing. He charges what 6 or 7 bucks for them? And you do not get > that many. My altime favorite stalcup rehash is his D-rib. You get like three > feet of this stuff for 3 bucks. It is V-rib whcih they have sold for years on > spools. I do not know why it was ever called v rib it had a d shape to it if cut > cross sectioned. But Stalcup, being the genius that he is, said well heck I will > call this d rib and make a fortune. I am not taking away from his fly creativity, > they are beautiful flies. But everytime I see his name on an article I know he has > a new tying product to push. I was interested in his new book, but I just cant > handle an ad that long. > > Just my two cents, hope no one is offended by my opinion on this matter! I do know > for a fact of at least one other VFB > er, that is held in rather high regard, that shares my opinion of mr. stalcup. > > john ridderbos > > Mel Hocken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I find I am using crystal flash in almost all of my flies these days and another > >item I seem to be using with greater frequency is a synthetic wing material similar > >to Stalcup's medallion sheeting. These two materials have influenced my tying more > >than any others in the past couple of years. > >On another note if there were only two materials I could have to tie with they > >would be deer hair and peacock herl. > >Mel > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I want to start a new topic that I have been thinking about recently. When I > >> started tying I bought items like hackle, peacock herl, pheasant tail, dubbing > >> you know the standard stuff. There are materials that I use now more often than > >> not, that I would never have thought I would use. > >> Qhat I want to do here is have folks pick two materials that they use regularly > >> now , that they wouldnt have thought of as common items when they started. Here > >> are my two items. My first item is moose body. I love to use moose body for > >> tails on adams, brown drakes etc. My other item is pheasant rump feathers. I > >> have never seen one patch of feathers have so many different types of feathers > >> with different characteristics . I use my pheasant rumps mostly for tying jack > >> gartsides sparrow. This was my number one bluegill fly for 4 years until it was > >> replaced my a fly from a member of this lists creation. > >> > >> Just thought this might be interesting. > >> > >> john ridderbos > > > >
