If you want beeswax, you can find small cakes sold at sewing shops, seamstresses use it to strengthen thread when sewing through tough materials. I've got some someplace, of course, never opened...
Mark Delaney On 8/26/05, Chuck Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Soren: Thanks.. Just dawned on me, that in my soap making supplies, I think > I have a little Bees Wax... If I need wax, I'll just use it, Chuck > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sören Finne > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:46 PM > Subject: Re: [VFB] Dubbing Wax > > > I seldom use wax except when dubbing seal´s fur. But a couple of month ago I > bought a book "Tying flies the Paraloop way" by Ian Moutter in which the > author points out the advantages in using wax. He says is always put bee´s > wax or similar onto the thread in order to "lock" the thread to the shaft > and he also claims that the wax has a gluing effect on the dubbing material > which makes the fly much more durable. But as I said above I almost never > use wax myself. > Soren > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chuck Alexander > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:25 AM > Subject: [VFB] Dubbing Wax > > If I only use pre waxed thread, do I still need dubbing wax???? Thanks in > Advance, Chuck > > And I have Miles To Go Before I Sleep.... > And Miles To Go Before I Sleep................ > Robert > Frost............. -- "So much water, so little time!" http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html
