Check this one http://hem.passagen.se/redneckfly/klinkhammer.htm, step 15-16. It's in Swedish, OK... but not hard to understand. A two-wrap whip-finish is done and before tightening the loop entirely, a little drop of head cement. is spread out over a few millimetres of thread. It doesn't become a thick layer, but when you tighten it and pull the thread loop through the thread wraps, it squeezes it out again and the little drop re-appears and gets sucked into the wraps. Works for me. /Nick
-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Chuck Alexander Skickat: den 30 november 2007 18:38 Till: [email protected] Ämne: [VFB] Tiny Fly Gluing question Folks: For one of my small fly flies I'm tying a midge and it has a peacock herl (or is it hurl???)thorax I guess it is. And it has a tiny gold bead head. Anyway, I'm like to get a drop of head cement ion the thread between the herl and the bead cause I have had bad luck with the herl coming untied in the past. But even with the little "needle" that comes with a bottle of head cement, the herl just "wicks" it right up and into the herl, thus making the herl hard as a rock as well. I don't want that. I wanted the herl to remain dry and bushy.. Cause the thread body I am putting Hanson hard as nails on, but I didn't want the entire fly hard as a brick.I even tried just wetting the thread with glue before whip finishing it, and that glue still got all over the herl..Any ideas??? Thanks, Chuck
