Ok being sick at home with 3 sick kids has really given me to much time : ).
Three inches of snow on the ground in Bend with more expected, 25 degrees outside. At least we are getting better moisture than the past few years' early season. Putting a crimp in the fishing possibilities, however...cold here, and waters blown out in the steelheading areas.
How many bobbins do most of you have? Do you have one for each color thread or just one or two that you simply change the thread back and forth on? �
Jim Burbank� "Troutman"
I have a collection of steel bobbin holders going unused. Once a friend gave me a ceramic model, I have been totally sold on these, and since I have just one so far, the thread gets swapped as I changed colors.
Also a friend gave me the neatest plastic spool holder that holds one of those sewing shop spools that are about 2 inches long and 5/8" around. This one came with some brown Gudebrod 8/0 and I have tied zillions of flies with it so far, and the spool still seems to have barely gone down in size...great cost savings! These holders just do not break thread. The plastic spool holders came from somebody in Pennsylvania, and I am trying to track down the source. Anybody familiar with these?
Each one looks a little like a distorted devil's pitchfork. The center prong goes all the way through the hole in the spool and snap locks at the other end. The rest of the pitchfork had three holes to route the thread plus the center hollow shaft that projects out like a regular bobbin.
These things are cool, and I'd love to find more of them.
Wes Wada
Bend, Oregon
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
~ Mark Twain
