Strange Tying Materials

[kyflytyer 0]

What is the strangest tying material that you have used? I guess for me it would be dryer lint. It makes great super fine dubbing and, contrary to popular belief, it isn't always gray. If my wife washes new or brightly colored clothes, I always check the dryer lint screen when she is done because sometimes there are some interesting color combinations in it.

[Arkansas Mike 0]

I tried using the "skin" off of a smoked sausage recently.

I was peeling it off the sausage one night while watching TV and

thought..."Hey...this might make good shellback material." I carefully

peeled the rest of the skin off, rinsed it and set it out to dry. The next

morning though, it was stiff and brittle. I still may try tying some on a fly

wet and see what happens.

 

 

Mike

[smallieFanatic 0]

I once used some of my hair in a streamer

[navigator37 0]

Weird stuff?

-Some tassels off one of my nieces old bicycle handles.

Looks like thick flashabou.

- Tinfoil for a streamer body

- Pillowcase feathers

- Ziplock bag for shellback

- Fur from a dog brush ( poodle fur )

 

I guess if I looked back to the beginnings

of my fly tying days, I could remember more

but that's all for now.

[Guest rich mc]

being in the carpet cleaning business i get lots of carpet fuzz. makes a good dubbing.i also use some synthenic feather dusters, the multi colored fibers are long and have a shine to them. rich mc

[Bruce Derington 0]

Belly button dubbing :ban:

[day5 0]

Bruce's belly button dubbin!! :ban:

 

 

 

 

OK this is not true and is a bit creepy! sorry for the bad joke!

[Chase Creek 0]

The fuzz from the testicles of a West Bhutanese Albino Yak.

(ONLY KIDDING) :hyst:

 

For real:

candy bar wrappers

coffee beans

camel hair

cigar wrapper

foil seal from coffee can

[flyderaght 0]

The packaging they use for computer parts-clear but has a nice sheen to it.

marc

[tequilatrout 0]

These little guys...

[Harold Ray 0]

Twenty-five pounds of Tibetan yak hair trimmed from a herd of yaks by herdsmen and carried 300 miles to a yak hair sorting/cleaning/tying house by a Tibetan monk, on orders of a higher order monk, where the hair it tied in 3 or 4 ounce bundles. Then, it was shipped to South Africa and then on to Waco, Texas where I live.

 

Ray

[smallieFanatic 0]

Bruce's belly button dubbin!! :ban:

 

 

 

 

OK this is not true and is a bit creepy! sorry for the bad joke!

 

 

:scared: :bored:

[kolobflyfishing 0]

Twenty-five pounds of Tibetan yak hair trimmed from a herd of yaks by herdsmen and carried 300 miles to a yak hair sorting/cleaning/tying house by a Tibetan monk, on orders of a higher order monk, where the hair it tied in 3 or 4 ounce bundles. Then, it was shipped to South Africa and then on to Waco, Texas where I live.

 

Ray

 

Got any left you want to sale?

[Crackleback 0]

While shaving one day I realized my beard would make great rusty brown dubbing. I'm not ashamed to say I've grown my beard out multiple times to figure out what length works best.

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

[Denis Lamy 0]

What is the strangest tying material that you have used?

My son's hair. When he was very young, he had blond silvery hair. Hour hairdresser knowing I tied fly ask me if I wanted to keep some for a fly. I did. The resulting fly was not that great, hair was to fine and we just put it in an enveloppe without taking care to keep all point in the same direction. But it was an interesting tie.