RE: [VFB] Found a nice hackle storage container- also Wood ID

[Reuven Segal]

Thanks for that.   What I do(until the tying room will be finished over the next month or so) is to bag all the patches/hackles/materials in ziplocks, and then bag in an XL size ziplock all the similar materials. These are kept either in my tying bag(comes with me to club/trips etc or stored in big plastic containers with a couple mothballs wrapped in a tissue(keeps me from touching them whilst still allowing the smell to permeate the bin. Only once did I have any problems with the moths and was kept only to the single piece of squirrel I received from overseas. Never got into anything else.   However, as I will be building a tying/rod building room off the main house, I am more worried and thought to hang cedar baggies around here and there to prevent the insect ruining everything whilst not gassing me out(and insect traps/occasional spray of bug killer etc).   R   ______________________________________________ Reuven Segal   B. Engineering (Aerospace)- 4th Year B. Engineering (Manufacturing Systems and Management) RMIT University   5/11 Rockbrook Road, East St. Kilda, being soaked in bleach Melbourne, Victoria Australia   [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0422 266798   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of DonO Sent: Monday, 7 August 2006 3:28 AM To: vfb@troutnet.com Subject: Re: [VFB] Found a nice hackle storage container- also Wood ID Reuven,   Check out this page.  Has photos of wood that you can compare to the wood you have.  If you do a lot of this, you can save the photos to a file, create a collage, and print it out, making a sample poster for your shop.   http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/what_you_can_do/consumers/list_of_wood/index.cfm   About storage of hackles and furs.  One thing moths look for to lay their eggs is a dark place.  The caterpillars, which do the damage (not the moths), will dig deep and eat the parts of whatever they are on away from the light.   The most beneficial thing I've done over the years is to make sure all materials are separately bagged.  Moths cross-infect, so stop them before they start cross-contaminating by bagging them.  Especially expensive materials can be double-bagged, then stored in containers with cedar chips.  Moth females look for the best place to lay their eggs, so if the only smell they get is cedar, they'll look elsewhere.   DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: Reuven Segal To: vfb@troutnet.com Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 11:06 AM Subject: RE: [VFB] Found a nice hackle storage container How can I tell what wood it is, especially w.r.t. the older units??   R