Nick and Henk, you're both right. True Wonder Wings have the hackle barbs on both sides of the stem. The FTBR (p.260) refers to them as "reverse-hackle wings". The wings in the picture are called "half-hackle wings", and one half of the barbs is stripped from the stem. There are 2 ways to tie them in: (1) stroke the barbs back, adjust the width by pulling the stem, and tie in. (2) first tie in the hackle, then dress the body (or thorax or head, depending where you tie the hackle on the hook and the orientation of the barbs), and then pull back the barbs and tie down. These wings are also used as parachute posts, in that case most tiers use one wing instead of two.
Martin
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henk Verhaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Fly Patterns
On 23-jan-05, at 1:07, Martin Westbeek wrote:
You're right, Nick. It looks like a single Wonder Wing. Martin
Not a Wallywing at all. Not a (true) wonderwing either. I can't remember the name of this technique but I know Orvis used to carry patterns like this. Main difference with the mentioned techniques is that here the wing is created in two separate steps, first tie in the stalk, make thorax, then bend the fibers back, and tie in in front of thorax.
In a hurry so my description is somewhat terse...
Henk
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