Re: [VFB] Folding Hackle

[mark romero]

Mike, lastly......there is another way to do it, and that is to first get 
your barbs going out from the stem (perpendicular and downwards), then do 
your clip(ing), tye in, and then......holding the feather w/hackle pliers 
attached in your right hand, fold with your left. That's the fold after 
having tyed in method. It also works. Eventually you'll find a way that 
suits you. Try them all in the beginning. 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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