I agree...I only use superglue on two kinds of flies, firstly "superglue buzzers". secondly helping lock the gold bead heads in place before tying the rest of the fly.
iain
I've got your back, Brian! :-) CA glues absolutely cause natural hairs and feathers to become brittle. Or try this, put your prime crests in a sealed container with an open bottle of Zap-a-Gap. The result is not pretty!
Proper techniques - sparse amounts of hair, thread control, etc. - will do the job much better than slopping on ZAG. I detest the use of it on classic streamers and salmon flies. It's just plain not right. ;-)
Be Safe Out There.
Monte
Brian Van Erem wrote:
>Steven and Salmon Fly Junkies:
> Wow, I may go out on a limb here and take a view contrary to a
>master... I believe, and I think I can back with evidence in my own
>experience, that CA glues (Zap-a-Gap), will cause feathers and
>natural hairs to become brittle. My experience does not extend to
>synthetics. This said, and I maintain, CA glues have no business on
>the head or any other place on a salmon fly. Simply put, it is not
>needed. Anchor wings with edge to edge wraps and sparse amounts of
>hair, techniques that will be neccessary when building multi-color
>layered wings anyway. Somebody back me up here! I am all alone in
>a shooting gallery! Tim???
> Cheers!
> Brian
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/30/03 6:12:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
>> A word of caution -- zap-a-gap will make all stems VERY
>>brittle
>> and has no place on the head of a salmon fly!
>
>
>
> Brian,
> I was watching a Dick Talleur video tying Atlantic Salmon Flies
> last nght. He used zap-a-gap quite extensively on the head to
> anchor the Hair Wings. I believe he was using Squirrel Tail. Is
> your comment related to feather stems or Salmon Fly heads, in
> general?
> Steve Schalla
>
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Monte Smith
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