On 26 Apr, 2004, at 23:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hello again, everyone,
I was just reading a new-to-me book (The Practical Fly Tier: No-Nonsense Patterns and Techniques for Wet and Dry Flies, Nymphs, and Streamers by Royce Dam et al) and I'm interested in what a 'Carding brush' is. I make my own wool dubbing and dye it, so I'm highly curious what this device is... the context is that the brush makes wool dubbing easier to work with in a 'strand by strand' fashion. At first I thought it was a simple bore-cleaner for a gun barrel, or something like that, but I'm a bit confused as to what the book means. Could someone please shed some light on this? Is this the 'lint-remover' brush?
Formally it is the heavy wire gauge brush used to card flax into linen, or hemp into hemp fiber. For dubbing carding purposes, a wire pet brush is more than adequate.
henk
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