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Beads
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Metal Beads
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Bead chain from the hardware store if dismantled can be used for bead heads and bead chain eyes.
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Craft and sewing shops carry beads in all sorts of colours and sizes for small prices. |
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Dubbing and Body Materials
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Body Material
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Knitting Wool and yarn - ask friends and family for left over balls, mohair remanents from stores.
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Dubbing Material
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Blankets = Furry Foam (K-Mart or similar)
Clipped fur from toy stuffed animals
Cotton from cotton balls, fine dubbing that can be easily dyed
Knitting Wool and yarn - ask friends and family for left over balls, mohair remanents from stores.
Ladies Purses cut into thin strips different colors for segmented bodies.
Latex gloves cut into strips provides Latex rib, or segmented bodies.
Lint from the clothes drier dryer
Old fur coats, stoles, gloves are a good source or real and substitute fur (rabbit, mink etc.)
Old carpet remanents for synthetic material
Pet cats, dogs, they probably wont like you snipping it off them so use a grooming brush.
Plastic Canvas Yarn provides body wrap or dubbing material / Streamers (Craft dept.)
Polar Fleece cut into thin strips can make good fly bodies
Press-on Nails make beetle backs.
Silk flowers = Crawdad claws, and Nymph backs.
Sunflower Seed hulls make good beetle backs
Zip-Loc bags gives Scud backs
Zip-Loc bag locking strpss can be used for adult damsel fly bodies
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Popper Bodies |
The foam core of RG-11 coax cable makes a wonderful white body Foam ear plugs are good for Chuggers and Sliders |
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Feathers/Marabou etc
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Feathers
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In the back yard, the street, the beach , the golf course anywhere !
If you know someone who keeps birds ask them for feathers from the bottom of the cages.
Feather mask kits from craft stores give hackles in weird colors.
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Marabou
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Feather dusters are a good source of colourful marabou.
Feather Boa, also a good cheap source of Marabou buy it by the metre at a craft shop
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Legs and Tails
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Legs
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Bungee Cords - use the insides of a cheap bungee cord (the ones that look like a nylon rope, not the solid black type).
Plastic hairbrush bristles = Legs
Synthetic dusters Jig leg material
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Tails
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Good quality artist's paintbrush = Microfibetts tailing material (Art Supply Store)
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Tools et al
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Tools
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Amunition Cartridges (Empty) (38s, 45s) make good hair stackers
Ball Point Pen Cases make good half hitch tools
Butler G.U.M Floss Threaders = Bobbin threaders (Kid's use these to thread dental floss through their braces) (Drug Store-Dental Section)
Chap Stick or Lipstick lids (metal not plastic) make good hair stackers
Circuit Testers = Hackle Pliers--The little hook kind (Radio Shack)
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Other
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Hair Spray--Unscented! To spray quill feathers to reinforce them so they don't split for wings, shellbacks, wing cases etc.
Household Goop = Dave's Flexament. (Sports dept.)
Liquid Brushing Lacquer = Head Cement (Hardware or Paint Store)
Nail Varnish = Head Cement (Drug Store specials)
Tuffilm--A charcoal fixative, same purpose as Hair Spray (see above)--a little more substantial. (Art Supply Store)
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Wings etc
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Fabric Wings
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Wedding veil material = Wings (Sewing Dept.)
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Hair Wings
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Long Wire Hair Dogs are a good source of calftail substitute. (Collies, Wire Hair Jack Russels)
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Wire and Tinsel
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Copper Wire
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Electric Motor windings
Flex cables
Speakers
Transformers
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Gold Wire
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Picture Hanging Wire, use single strands
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Other Wire
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Wire from fancy champagne bottles
Bead Stringing Wire from craft stores
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Tinsel
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Craft Shop for holographic tinsels and threads
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