Oh, then what are you going to do? U winger u................
At 12:22 PM 3/16/2004 -0800, you wrote:
Ginger,
Wingers are hen necks, so the feathers are not like saddles. They are like dry fly necks, just with a different style feather that makes great wings. They graduate from small size 20 on some to giant size 10 and bigger bass-bug size, plus they are paired left/right, more as you get away from the center of the cape.
The tips are not all perfectly identical, so a little pair-matching is required. Other than that the necks are very useable, as the tips of the larger feathers can be used to wing small flies, thus getting more use out of the cape. It would almost be akin to trimming hackles to extend the use of a hackle-neck.
(Oh No! Trimming hackles! I blasphemed! Here we go again!!! Sorry John. :o) )
If the capes were plucked and bagged, matching pairs for wings would be much more difficult than having a whole neck or a portion of a neck split side-to-side.
DonO
Back to reading my Moon Holler...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginger Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 6:37 AM Subject: Re: SPAM [text] Re: [VFB] Wingers?- need some ideas
> I would find out too how many pluckers there were. > Are you saying these capes cannot be plucked? > ie, sent to the pluckers to pluck for all pluckers? >
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