Rare dubbing

[sandflyx 0]

[flytire 0]

additionally, any offer of selling materials shall be done in the classified section of the forum. not here

[sandflyx 0]

none is for sale

 

[flyflinger 0]

Dubbing (collections) are to me one of the great enigmas of fly tying - entertaining but confusing.  In almost 50 years of fly tying, I've collected almost every imaginable brand, texture, material, and color of dubbing . . . I literally have drawers full of dubbing, and yet a few months ago I ordered 10-12 new ones because somebody in a video said they were "perfect" for some fly they were tying.  As noted in this posting, some are now very difficult to find, especially in a certain material (e.g.: Tups "pink" in seal), but leave it to fly tyers to complicated everything, and thank goodness for that!  🤪  

example:  http://classicflyrodforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=100746 

Regards, 

 

         

[Gene L 0]

 

i wonder if the seal dubbing here is actually from a seal, which is prohibited in the US, or "Real Seal" which isn't actual seal, I suspect it's a trademark.  I have a couple of pkgs of that, and it's not seal fur.  Does anyone know for sure?

[cphubert 0]

9 minutes ago, Gene L said:

seal dubbing here is actually from a seal

a bunch of seal showed up on the surplus market a few years ago it was used for insulation in soviet winter coats, many dyed this and marketed it. A note adult seal is or can be difficult to work with, baby seal fur gathered on the ice after shedding was the best to work with-- also being snow white it dyed well.

[johnnyquahog 0]

Hook and Hackle sold seal dubbing for a short while in the 80’s.  I picked up a bunch of colors.  They still have the paper hook & hackle tag in them.  A small fly shop in NE Mass had a small drawer full of seal packets that he got from another shop that went out of business.  I bought some black and different shades of olive that I use for seal buggers and haven’t tied a bugger with chenille for the last twenty years.  With the modern threads, the little spinning gadgets and a little YouTube instruction I find it easy to make a dubbing loop for lots of materials including seal.  Wish I picked up this technique earlier.

[DarrellP 0]

On 12/13/2023 at 7:58 PM, Gene L said:

I don't use hard to find dubbing, bud would like to try seal.  I understand it's not the easiest thing to dub.  It's legal in Canada and England, but not here in the US.

You can get real seal at Feathercraft.  The only way I can Dub it is in a loop.

[Moshup 0]

A nice piece of water rat would be a real find.

[DFoster 0]

I can't say I use any rare dubbings.  Almost all of stuff I use is brand name.  I do have one bag that is labeled "seal and orange", maybe it's actually seal or maybe seal is a color name?  I found it at a fly shop in a hand labeled  bag.  I can usually get the color and constancy that I need by mixing what I have.  I also have most of the commonly used skins, mole in a few colors, same for hare's mask.  Some patches of Australian opossum, kit fox, muskrat and squirrel.  I find working with angora to be difficult, a loop is the only way I can use the stuff I have.