Kevin: Good idea. Thanks, Chuck
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From: Kevin Machon
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:40 PM
Subject: RE: [VFB] Griffith's Gnat Question
Chuck:
Try holding the hackle feather straight up and making one wrap of the peacock
behind the hackle, so you don't start wrapping the hackle behind the herl body.
Kev
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [VFB] Griffith's Gnat Question
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:06:56 -0600
Folks: I have been tying some Griffiths Gnats..To tie in the hackle feather
to the back of the hook to start the palmering forward, I trim the barbs real
short for about 1/16th of an inch (cause it's on a #18 hook), tie that in from
front to back. Then, I take my thread back to the front of the hook, towards
the eye..When I make a sharp right turn to wrap clockwise towards the eye, a
few of the barbs stick straight back, and up at an angle, then start getting
into the normal palmered position and goes on up the hook, where I tie it off
at the hook eye.. Those few wild hairs kinda look like a tail, so it's not that
back, but my question was, how do you tie in the hackle so that you don't get
those few stray hairs??? Anybody see what I'm saying??? Thanks, Chuck
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