dubbing wax

[northshore 0]

I haven't really done to many flies with dubbing yet.I don't have any dubbing wax, so I tried my bow string wax to see if it would work.What are some other options to using dubbing wax?

[oatka 0]

I've never used wax before. There are a bunch of ways out there to do it.

 

Check out this thread http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?sho...&hl=dubbing

 

or if you have the Hatches magazine, i think from 2007, it covers dubbing in there too!

[northshore 0]

Thanks oatka.That info should help.

[Inconnu 0]

If you need it, go pick up a beeswax toilet bowl gasket, it will last for your life time and it is cheap. I've been using the stuff for 20 years.

[rockworm 0]

northshore

 

The stuff traditionally used for violin strings is rosin (purified pine resin.) It is way too hard by itself, but an excellent dubbing wax can be made melting rosin with beeswax and oil of cedar (or similar oil.)

[CM_Stewart 0]

northshore

 

The stuff traditionally used for violin strings is rosin (purified pine resin.) It is way too hard by itself, but an excellent dubbing wax can be made melting rosin with beeswax and oil of cedar (or similar oil.)

 

 

Bowstring wax is also a mixture of beeswax and rosin. Use what you have until you decide (from experience) it is either too tacky or not tacky enough to do the job.

[Chase Creek 0]

On the subject of wax,although I don't really use wax that much, I took a hint from AK Best a while back. I took one of those tubes of wax (Loon, I think), melted it, and poured it into a small plastic box that has a hinged lid. Think paper clips came in it. MUCH easier to use, just run your finger across the top and apply to the thread. You should never apply wax directly from the tube to the thread - you end up with way too much and it tends to clump up. When done, just close the lid.

[smallieFanatic 0]

I just use a chunk of ordinary bees wax, heated with a lighter

works for me :hyst:

[fishaholic69 0]

I got wax but never use it anymore. never had dubbing give me a problem. just twist it on and wrap it up

[Brian Brown75 0]

I just quit using it never did much for me

[dryangler 0]

I just use ear wax...I know its gross..but cheap,handy, and always available

[Hillbillyredear 0]

Plain old chapstick will work however, I have just learned recently to use a dubbing loop and will no longer be using wax.

[Bruce Derington 0]

The guys in the Classic Forum use a dryer form of wax (on their thread) at certain times. It is applied on the thread to help hold materials in the right place. An example would be when tieing in the herl butt, the last turn of herl tends to want to "slip off", so with the thread wraps that have the wax on it , hold it in place. Its not used for dubbing, this wax is not as sticky and can be used to finish the heads of Classics also. With the large heads the thread will slip forward so we use this "dry" wax to keep the thread from falling towards the eye, see example: In the Butt section I have used wax on thread wraps under the Herl butt to keep the herl "tight" and wax on thread when building the head, pretty much impossible to end up with a head as this without it!