Re: [VFB] Folding Hackle

[mark romero]

Mike, i forgot to say, (so you don't get confused) that i'm ambidexterious, 
and i just happen to fold left handed. Even though i tye right handed. So i 
have the hackle pliers in my left hand, and the tip of the feather in my 
right when i fold, using my left hand thumb and forfinger to fold the hackle 
downwards. You may want to adjust that to suit yourself. mark....

From: "Joyce's crafts and flies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [VFB] Folding Hackle
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 04:03:07 -0700
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

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