Re: [VFB] Tony's necks, part 1

[Deborah Duran]

Don My Cree rooster from Whiting has a chevron shape to the black bar.   The picture of the cree hackle in the Whiting ad on page 5 of this months Fly Tyer magazine also has a chevron shape to the black bar.  I think most if not all of the cree hackles I've seen have this shape.   So you have me confused with your description.  Deb  If the black forms a chevron in the center, with ginger and cream barring, it is only a ginger variant, not a true cree.  I have some light, med., and dark barred ginger Whiting saddles that are just beautiful, but are not cree and don't look just like cree when palmered.  If I was going to pick two feathers to sub for cree, I'd pick a grizzly dyed cream, and a furnace brown. The brown and cream will blend to give some illusion of ginger.   See part 2