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Paul vd Driesche

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  1. Michel, A little comment...if I may....hope you don't mind. You should take a good look at some pictures of the real thing and check the position of the legs on you flies. The front pair are coming fron under the head. Stone clingers have them taht way but stone flies don't. The front part of the stone fly can be devided into 4 quarters....2 wingcases the shoulderpart (pronotum if I'm not mistaken) and the head. The legs are coming from below the wingcases and the shoulderpart. If you take a look at your flies you see the 2 wingcases but only one pair of legs...this way you have an imidiate space/proportion problem which will show in the end result. Now given the way the flies look you have the skills so it should be a small adjustment for you to get it right on the next one.....it will be worth it...believe me. Greets Paul.
  2. ...thank you guys. Troutninja, It takes me somewhere between 50 and 60 hours to make one on these. Most time is spent on the wings which will take me 6 to 8 hours each to create. You could cheat a little and not make all 4 of the wings and shave off about 12 or 14 hours or so but that's not my style greets Paul.
  3. Thank you guys;) and Jimmy....sorry for my late reaction...I kind of missed your comment. I tie the flies I like best. I do put some things on hold untill I know a way to solve certain problems. It took quite some time before I started my may flies because I couldn't find the right way to make the wings the way I liked them. Once I found the right way (for me) I gave them a go. I used the same technic to create the stonefly wings by the way. At this moment I'm working on a hellgrammite. I started that one because it's a bug they know well in Newark where the fly tying symposium is held each november. People like recognizable stuff and they use these bugs to fish for small mouth baas so...... Greets Paul.
  4. Futzer, You are giving me quite some credits here thank you so much. This topic helps me to get it all straight. Like I said....I don't know. I hope you are right and I will start higher and see where it goes. For now I will just make a couple of different ones and take them to the Brittish Fly Fair and the Fly Tying Symposium in november and see what happenes. Thank you for thinkin' with me here....it's much apreciated. Paul.
  5. Thanks Mike, I have a hard time thinkin' what price to ask for stuff like this. If you look around and see what some guys get for their flies.....it amazes me every time again. Ok....some make awesome stuff but others are no better than the most of us so what to do? This artwork helps me a little though. It give me more of a feeling that you actually offer something special. Greets Paul.
  6. Thnx Futzer, Well the price is a problem for most of us but I will have to answer a question like that eventually if I ever want to sell some work. If you only calculate the ours that you put in tying the fly and on top of that making the artwork around it....I would have to work that out with the customer but I don't think you can do it for a couple of 100 dollars. It would have to be fair to both me and the customer. With the risk of sounding ridiculous I think it would be around a 1000 dollars. With a price like that you would not even make much profit out of it. Once you can build a name for yourself you can do better. I'm doing pretty good but I'm no Whillock or Logan (yet;)) so at this moment I would concider myself lucky to get a price like that. I do feel you would have to deliver something special for a customer paying that much.....on the other hand, when you look at a price you pay for an oilpainting from a nobody painter....you don't get much for 1500 dollars. I would only make unique one of a kind pieces though so that might help a little. I think selling to the highest bidder over the internet might be interesting.....I will try that sometime. I'm not seeing myself building 100 of these frames a year so I would like to sell them to people who are really lookin' for something special and who really apreciate what you do. Greets Paul.
  7. Thnx for the quick reactions guys. I'm glad you all like my work. Andres, Thnx for the compliment. But look at this as just an extra option. People who like the realistic work the way it is can get it in a cube...no problem. But I do think that on a wall this will look better than a fly on it's own....however beautifull it might be. If you look at things we make from 2 or 3 meters away a fly is hardly visible....this is so when you look at it from that point of view it just might be a little more interesting to a larger group of people (read customers ). Greets Paul.
  8. Hey all, I'm taking a small side step here. I found a way (I was pointed in a direction by a friend would be a better way of putting it) to give my work that little extra that will make it stand out from the rest...maybe not in my tying skills but in presentation. I would like to know what you guys think about it. The plan is to sell some of my work eventually...if there is someone outhere willing to pay for it that is...and since we all have the same problem, what will you charge someone for something which has basicly no value? This way of presenting my flies will make it a little easier. I still don't know what to charge but that will come when I actually find someone interested enough. This way it might actually qualify as art and maybe I can even reach people that are from outside our "Flytyer world"......who knows. Anyway...like I said, I would like to know what you guys think about it.....bring it on....gently though Greets Paul.
  9. If you ask me I would say go as thin as you can handle. You don't want your thread to break when you are working in concentration but you don't want you wraps to show either. To bild up some volume you can you several materials so no need to use a thicker thread for that....you just want to use it to get your materials on and that's it. I would like to see someone build a delicate mayfly leg with 3/0. This is almost thick enough for the whole leg by itself. so as thin as posible and white would be my sugestion. Greets Paul.
  10. Hey Fred, Your cricket looks awesome....the photo is a bit blurry but it says enough (I would like to see more detail in a better photo though...no offence). Now since Adres keeps us in the dark about how he made the thing any chance you will tell us how you did it? Greets Paul.
  11. Now don't say we didn't warn you upfront.....from here it will only get worse.... nice work :thumbsup: Greets Paul.
  12. Thank you I ty them on stainless steel wire (the toothy critters stuff I got from Wall mart) as a set so I can shape them the way I like them to be with my thread mostly, the upper part off the leggs have a piece off 65/100 mono in them on the underside of the leg which gives the volume and the shape. The will be tyed to the body when they are shaped they way I like them. This gives me way more room than when you try to shape legs that are already attached and sit like 6 mm apart from each other. Greets Paul.
  13. Thank you guys....your reaction is much apreciated. Alex, Nice picture with these two flies together. Michel, Here we go.....I use a thin clear plastic sheet which is a bit like the sheet used for overhead projectors but as thin as you can get it. A piece of 1 inch wide and 2 inches high is than taped on a print of a wing which can be found on the interner quite easy, just print that out and that will be your guideline. Than I use varnish (just the plain stuff you use to finish the head of your fishing flies....Hard as Nails in my case) and put a small drop on the point where all the vains come together at the base of the wing. with that drop I glue the beginning of a 6/0 tying thread in the right color (grey or brow) to the plastic sheed. Then with a dubbing needle I just add more drops of varnish and with gentle strokes push the thread to the sheed and that way glueing it to the sheet following the vain pattern of the print below. when you have covered them all you remove the sheed from the print and you will end up with a piece of sheed with the exact copy of the vain patern. A coat of a matt varnish will take the shine of and fill in the gapps. If you use the right color of thread there is no need to add any coloring to the sheet. The color shining through from the body will be just perfect. Now basicly this is the way that Paul Whillock does it in his book. The only difference is that he used raffine instead of plastic sheet and fibers and hairs instead of tying thread. I prefer the transparancy of the sheet and the thread for the bigger size flies.....it just works better for me. This is about as clearly as I can explain the proces in a few words....in reality it takes me 6 to 8 hours for each wing to create( these things have 4 of them) but the results are way better than other technics I have seen or tried. Given the reactions I receive from people on shows that same goes for a lot of people. I hope you can use the explanation to your advantage. Greets Paul.
  14. Riffleriversteel...Is it Paul? it says so very small under "release a big one today etc" so I guess it is...anyway...I can see where your going with it and I do like the idea but it would have to be very thin skin from some furry critter and I can't think of what that would have to be....I don't want to kill anything for it so it will have to be in my tying materials already. Fly Tyer Guy, cdc will look about the same as ostrich or any other underfeatherlike plum. this would surely work on other nymphs or for the fishing version but I want super realistic here so that's not going to do the trick. Again...thanx 4 thinking with me here. Greets Paul.
  15. Hey Andres, I sent you a message through your web site....it said "Mensaje enviado" is that good? make your site in English....It looks great but I can read any of it Greets Paul.
  16. Hey all, Cool thing that you all are thinking with me on this....I really apreciate it. Futzer, Since I only use this picture for referance I hope he will not mind that I use his pics.....they are simply the best you can have....awesome stuff on that site....they should teach this stuff in school if you ask me About using printed stuff....I wan't to keep away from that for as long as I can. I prefer something more organic. Johan, I'm getting curious here Anyway....I have had imput from another tyer, we talked about feathers like ostrich and stuff like that but that is just not close enough when you look at the center of these gills so that will not be my way to go. He came up with another thing....I'm not telling anything yet :devil: ...but it's the best so far so I will try that and show the results here when it has come to life. I hope to come to it in the next few weeks. Untill then.....please...if you think you have another material in mind?...post it...(it's almost christmas which is the ultimate time for sharing anyway :yahoo: ) it just might be better than what I have now and it will really be apreciated. Greets Paul.
  17. Hey all, I want to do a Hex nymph like the one in the picture below. I don't worry about building the beast itself but these critters have these specific breathing gills at the top half of the body......That is a problem. There is nothing I can think of that will imitate these gills properly :crying: ....raffine doesn't do it for me...ostrich? don't think so. It has to look organic. Who thinks he has the material in mind that will do the trick? I will be forever grateful Greets Paul.
  18. Hey Andres, Looks great....as usual ....now since most of us don't read spanish and will probably never see this mag...is there any chance we can find your pattern of the hopper in english somewhere....sometime. I think it's the best fishable hopper I have seen. The fishability does depent on the materials that you used though so that patern would be very nice. Greets Paul.
  19. Hey Johan, Looks good....like always the second one looks just that little better than the first one.....I liked the fist one allready but this one is better if you ask me Greets Paul.
  20. This takes realistic tying to another perspective.....how realistic is an insect from an sf movie looks great though. Paul.
  21. Hey Ulf, I like it a lot....would you mind telling me what you use for the wings? I would also like to know how you make the legs. I make them on steel wire but as small as this I don't think that would work so that makes me curious. Greets Paul.
  22. You're not makin' it easy for yourself on this size.....nice wings Paul.
  23. Hey Jim, Your reason for trying the realistic side of fly tying is just fine. The good part is that it will improve your overall tying skills. About starting with something easy....forget every thing with wings for now, go for the nymphs to get a feel for constructing abdominal sections and legs and stuff. The coloring (which is a challange by itself) comes right after the construction part so when you have finished some nymphs you have covered these bases and you will know if you want to go on or not (I think you will be just the kind of freak that we all are and will become one of the "bug guys" :headbang: as the other tyers call us on shows ). Greets Paul.
  24. Hey Jim, Scott is right. This DVD would help you on your way. I think that one of the cool things about tying realistic stuff is that you can get a long way with some raffia (Swiss straw or synthetic) and some pieces of monofilament.....throw in a couple of markers in natural colors and you can create nice things...oh and some patience might help too. I did the clasic salmon flies, the deerhair stuff and everything else I could find but the realistic stuff is the most satifying thing so far. So I would say: give it a go and if you make it through the first couple you will have a lot of fun with it....I know I have. Go for it and have fun. Greets Paul.
  25. Hey Ulf,I look's good. I will have to try something this small sometime. Nice work. Greets Paul.
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