Re: [VFB] Folding Hackle

[Joyce's crafts and flies]

I do it as Al and Gretchen Beatty taught me..tie in the feather by the 
point, take the OUTSIDE edge of the scissors and simply hold the hackle 
under tension and run that outside edge along the hackle stem, it will put a 
bend in the barbs and it will fold like a champ as you pull it and guide it 
with your fingers and run it around the hook shank (or if you are the lucky 
owner of a Norvise or other rotary vise, then you simply spin the vice and 
it will lay, wrap after wrap, nicely folded). Joyce