Zonker strips

[Faster Fish 0]

Anybody have any idea how they make banding strips on rabbit zonker strips? I bought some rabbit fur to die and I was pondering on how they would make the strips on the fur.

 

Randy

[day5 0]

However it is done it is surface die only. Im wondering if they have a slotted jig they lay over the fur. Then use a tight nap paint roller and roll die over the fur. Id test this on the neighbors cat before I ruined a skin. But that is just me....

[Faster Fish 0]

That's what I was thinking, but was wondering if anybody had any other ideas.

[ellet 0]

Could the dye be silk screened onto the skin? I used to do silk screening by hand, and once the screen is prepared, you can do hundreds or thousands before you have to touch up the screen.

[day5 0]

Ive never silk screened but it is entirely possible

[Futzer 0]

They lay a jig over the fur, like a big comb and airbrush the black die onto it, more often than not it is a strip vs the whole rabbit skin.

 

Cheers, Futzer.

[day5 0]

Futzer he wants to sell barred zonkers

[Futzer 0]

Futzer he wants to sell barred zonkers

 

Yessir whole skins, on 7/0 tandem hooks, for fish with big nasty bitin' teeth, just watch that back cast, its a killer.

 

Cheers Futzer.

 

Oh and for faster fish, a black sharpie thick point pen and a thick paper mask for even lines works fine on a smaller scale. I really like lighter olive rabbit and dark green sharpie for pike.

[Faster Fish 0]

Great Ideas for me to try out. Thanks

[caulfield316 0]

Once you get it figured out, I'll take magnum size in natural, barred of course, yellow, olive and brown. Hurry.

[Tony.B 0]

im not sure

[sniksoh 0]

if you figure it out, that would be a great step by step for tyer.

 

just thinking out loud...

 

sniksoh

[tidewaterfly 0]

I showed some to my son, who is a graphic artist, and he's pretty sure it's done with a silk screen. However, he did say it's possible to do it with a air brush & a stencil also. Both methods would work with the proper dyes.

[Faster Fish 0]

Once you get it figured out, I'll take magnum size in natural, barred of course, yellow, olive and brown. Hurry.

 

 

Hey, when did you show up here. You old sly dog you.

[sandflyx 0]

tied dyed, of course