I've glued mylar gift wrap over craft foam (white) and then textured it with a knurled tool to give it a fishscale appearance. The glue used was water based contact cement. You can color the foam first with permanent markers down the back before gluing on the film (wqhich I do, before cutting the material out of a larger piece of foam.)
Mark Delaney --- David Colyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is for you salties. > > It was Deb who started me on this track, she > mentioned a while ago that she was having a look at > tying up some Crease Flies. How did you get on with > them, Deb ? > > I've been poking around researching Joe Blado's > pattern and I have now tied up a dozen and got some > good results and some absolute disasters. I got some > workable proportions with 3mm foam on a # 4/0 but > had to go to about half that thickness on # 1/0. > That Cynoacrylate sure makes a mess of a hookshank > when you want to cut the dressing off and start > again! > > Does anyone have experience tying and fishing these > flies? > > Anyone glued up their own foil covered foam, > Superglue is a pain, contact is messy and I cant > find prefoiled foam in this part of the world. > > Thanks in advance > > David > > > ______________________________________________ > > E-mail Disclaimer and Company Information > > http://www.absa.co.za/ABSA/EMail_Disclaimer > ===== So much water, so little time! Website: http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
