From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [VFB] Pardo' me- Mark Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:46:42 -0800
Mark,
The gold saddles go for about $30, which is a steal in my book. Byard can get them for you. Then the lesser grades are lesser priced. The spades close to the body may be speckled and the longer saddle feathers plain or faintly speckled.
The trick is getting good pardo speckling (like I said, I waited 4 months for Tom to pick me one out). Every generation brings Tom closer to marketable quantities of completely speckled saddles, as he uses the best for breeders. For now, the partially speckled saddles is what you'll see for the most part, with a few totally speckled being jealously guarded by their owners. It's much the same as for the demand for cree and spey.
As I explained in previous posts, the Spanish harvest feathers (plucking)
and Tom harvests birds. Big difference in approach. But what you'll pay
for a few spade feathers ($20) Spanish, you can buy a silver grade saddle
and have tailings, wings, and accents for hundreds of flies. The waxy sheen
on Tom's saddles is exquisite and they take beautifully to dyeing. Check
out the purple bass-bug saddles on John's site. If you cherry-pick a saddle
for spades only (like for salmon fly veils), you'll get near-Spanish
quality. If you pick for quantity, there's no comparison.
DonO
----- Original Message ----- From: "mark romero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:33 PM Subject: RE: [VFB] Pardo' me
> Don, would you mind giving us the price on that? I've gotten some from
Paco
> Sorio over in Spain but he's rediculasly expensive, although his is prolly
> the best. Anyway........thankx. mark
>
> >From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: [VFB] Pardo' me
> >Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:33:38 -0800
> >
> >Wowww,
> >
> >UPS just showed up and dropped off a package from Whiting containing
> >a Gold grade Coq de Leon Pardo saddle. Awesome what he's doing with
> >this line of birds. The speckling is incredible. I've had it on order
for
> >about 4 months, finally got it.
> >
> >I'll see if Byard will post a photo of it.
> >
> >DonO
>
>
>
Thank you very much for all that info Don. Do you have any idea why Tom W.
wasn't in West Yellowstone this year for the FFF I.C.? I was really looking
forward to seeing him. mark
