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Silver Doctor

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  1. I've never had to soak my Rea before stripping each side. Don't start at the tip but about and inch and a half down. Grab the top of the Rea (the tip part) between you right thumb and index finger and do the same with the herl portion of the other side. Keep your two thumbs against each other and "roll" your thumbs against each other as you split the herl. Reposition your hands and do it again. You will get a perfect split this way. I usually split a few dozen this way watching TV in the evening. Hope it makes sense.


  2. Instead of pulling out that much thread and wasting it, you can do a couple of wraps around the vice post and let it hang till you need to use it again. Norm also has plastic "caps" that hold the thread from retracting after using it for a session, very slick. You can also just fold the thread against the bobbin tube and wrap an elastic band around it to hold it. I've production tied with the bobbins for years, never once a clog.


  3. Love the nor bobbin, been tying with them for about 8 years, I won 4 now and a couple dozen spools. I tied on a nor vice for about 4 years but use the bobbins with other vices I've owned like the Traveler and the Dyna King Barracuda. Don't use the Nor vice anymore as I like my Law better but still really love the bobbins. Tried the Ekich bobbin but it sits in a box.


  4. I have a McKenzie Vise Light, which I really like, It's the larger type 20 watt bulb with a long magnifier. The ac adapter has given up the ghost. I was going to pick up another adapter at the local electrical store, unfortunatly the information tag fell off the adapter a while ago. I know it's a 12 volt but how many amps or watts. If anyone has one could you post the specs of the adapter so I can pick another one up.

     

    thanks


  5. I find pheasant rum easy to find and cheap, I've just picked up a full Bleu eared pheasant cape which is a really great substitute.

    You can get small quantities of heron at:

    www.canadiantubeflies.com

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    I tried burnt hackle one but as you found it is very brittle. I now buy heron or substitutes like pheasant rump, and peacock.

     

     

    Silver Doctor- Where do you buy these from? As I find it very hard to get heron or pheasant rump in bright dyed colours..

     

     

    Troutbum- I do use schlappen, Actually more often than anything else as I really like working with it.. However I'm working on a pattern that schlappen just isn't working. needs to be a little more stiff and basically no web on the barbs at all. The pattern calls for cock hackle and the original tier said that nothing else worked just right.

    So I have been attempting to make this burnt cock hackle work but I may just go use the schlappen and hope it turns out half decent.

     

     

    THanks

    Chris

     


  6. I personally suck my thread through the tube. I have found that if I use my bobbin threader it will scratch the inside of the tube.

     

    Tried looking inside the tube for scratches, how do you do it? you must have great eyes. I take my hat off to you. Used a threader for 15 years on my tubes and no damage or nicks that I can see. There was a time way back in the sixties where a popular method was to thread a Needle and drop it through the tube. works well but only if you can thread a needle :) .

     

     


  7. An interesting post and subject.

    I started tying in the early 60's. Unlike a lot of kids at that time I didn't have a paper route I tied for the local sporting goods. Back then there was not a lot of places you could learn to tie. I learned from my Dad and Grandfather. After tying for 5 years in hand (yes without a vice, you should try it) I bought a vice and bobbin (mail order from Field and Stream magazine). That Universal vice was scorned by my Grandfather as breaking tradition by not tying in hand. He tied the most beautiful Atlantic Salmon flies this way.

     

    We gathered our own materials, the bulk of them came from fall hunting expositions for deer, duck and upland birds and buying chickens for capes (bet very few of you had to deal with a live chicken or rooster to get capes). There where three categories of flies. Dry flies, Wet flies and Streamers.

     

    Now talk to me to me about tradition.

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