Chuck, I don't use a packer, I use my fingernails. Put the end of your fingernail from your first finger on top of the hook shank and thumb nail on the bottom of the hook shank, with the flat part of the nails against the hair. With the two fingers, push against the hair while twisting your hand from left to right, This will pack the hair pretty good. As an example, check out the "Sanded Minnow" on Renne's site. it was packed that way and it was tight enough to sand the deer hair body with 320 sandpaper. Tony --- Chuck Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mr. Eaux... I have a book that shows you fly tying > tools you can make and it shows how to make the hair > packers (stackers??) with old ink pen tubes and > dowels with holes drilled in them.. Well, the > "correct" pages I saw said this is a no no as it > pushes the hair down instead of back.. Since you are > a rebel stacker/packer/spinner, will these home made > tools suffice??? Thanks, Chuck > (The po boy who is too po to buy proper tools LOL) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: DonO > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:00 AM > Subject: Re: [VFB] Spinning deer hair > > > Lane, > One thing I might point out is that stacking your > hair in a stacker to get the tips aligned is a > different process from stacking the deer hair on the > hook to get designs, like multi-colors on the top > side of a sculpin head. This leads to a little > confusion until you separate the processes. > DonO > ----- Original Message ----- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
