For woolly Bs it is important to wrap the chennille and hackle in the same
direction, so the hackle dops in between the turns of Chennille. Warpping wire
or tinsel rib counter the direction of the hackle holds it beter in place and
the wire does nt drop into the wraps of the chennile... (if you ue wire
rib...)
I am right handed and I tie clock wise. I have the hook in the vise so the
eye points to the right. So Clockwise winding is over the top and away from
me, then underneath and towards. I have no problem trapping items I
wrap. Perhaps the problem is more due to the fact that you have the vice and
hook eye pointed towarsd youreslef rather than to the right ...
cheers Ian
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:31:01 -0500
Folks: I finally got
me some small hackle, and am having trouble with it a little... My question is
this..I tie right handed,and Say, on a woolly bugger, I would wrap the thread
clockwise as the hook eye points towards me in the vise.. Then, I WAS wrapping
chenille and hackle in that SAME direction.. But all night it wanted to come
unraveled.. So, I wound the thread clockwise, and then the chenille and hackle
counterclockwise, so, that when I went to tie it off, the thread would cross
over the hackle and/or chenille and seem to hold better.. Is there anything
Wrong with doing it this way???? My DVD's and Books show them all doing it the
same way I was doing it, in the same clockwise direction.. Or is this one of
those "Whatever works for you is the right way"???? Thanks in advance,
Chuck
