Thx Rene. If you want one really fast and aren't that fuzzy with the details, I guess a guy like you can get one tied in 4.5-5 hours. Ok, it might have been to push it... but I'm still honest when I say: It's not a fast tie. If a swap is about putting in effort, then this is a true swap fly. It's time taking and a lot of material is gone to waste. What is used for the case is the stiffest part of the herls, max 1.5 cm's from the feather stem... further out than that is no good. Too soft and too much barbules. Those 1.5 cm sections are cut in half so you get a bunch of stiff 0.7-0.8 mm herl pieces with a minimum of barbules. These are put in a dubbing loop one-by-one using tweezers, perpendicular to the thread and about 0.5-1 mm's from eachother. After preparing a 2.5 cm length the loop is twisted and the "turkey chenille" is wrapped and packed. Then the loop is untwisted and you just continue with new herls. (This is for the tyer's own sake. Slightest tap on the thread when putting the herls in the loop and everything will fall out. It's better to be sad about 2.5 cm's lost than EMOTIONALLY DESTROYED about 4 cm's lost.)
Well, to the question... "How long does it take?": I guess the ones I did for the swap took 1.5-2.5 hours each. The factor making the huge time differences wasn't the actual 'tying' of the fly. It's mainly the preparation of the turkey loop BETWEEN the wrapping. A little bit out of focus and it will take longer. I have a prepared Word document with a Jester-like 3-chapter story behind the fly. I'm sending it to Don now and he can distribute it to the participants. /Nick -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Rene Zillmann Skickat: den 10 mars 2006 21:32 Till: [email protected] Ämne: [VFB] One Material Swap -- DonO Hi'all I've got some great looking flies from the swap. Thanks a lot to all, great ideas. For me, the winner is Nick's caddis. Nick, how long does it take to tie one of them. If made a little website, I hope I mixed nothing up. For some of the flies I have instructions and recipe. I'll add this later to the side. For some of the participants, I have not their location (Country, state) I would like to add it. Here is the URL: http://rzillmann.tripod.com/swap38/swap38.htm If you don't like popup ads, try this mirror: http://www.rzillmann.homepage.t-online.de/swap38/swap38.htm Have fun Rene IOFF, VFB, Germany
