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To those of use that use markers in your tying:

What is the right kind, what brands are good, etc?

Do you really use them to color materials or are they mostly for accents? In other words, do they prevent you from buying multiple colors of, let's say, craft fur, or do you just use them for barring craft fur flies?

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I use the Sharpie permanent markers mostly for accent's.Stripes on rubber legs,barring fur and feathers,marking on foam flies. They work great.

 

I have not used the Copic markers but i hear a lot about them also.

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Sharpies work great. For more variety of colors Copic and Prismacolor makes waterproof markers. I like the prismacolors because they are dual ended. Fat tip on one end and fine on the other.

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I love markers! This is my favorite kind: post-36073-0-16960700-1484099627_thumb.jpg.

 

The brush tip is great for coloring feathers...post-36073-0-57402200-1484099692_thumb.jpg

 

...and craft fur, etc.... (see craft fur streamer at the bottom of this post)

 

...but as you see, I have nothing against good old Sharpies smile.png post-36073-0-61664700-1484099757_thumb.jpg

 

The Prismacolor markers are fantastic--find them at Michael's, or anywhere that sells art supplies. They're kind of expensive, though (about $6 each) but they last a long time and they com in a huge range of great colors for flies--tans, olives, dull yellows, mossy greens, etc. Sharpies you can buy at any big box store and they cost much less, but they tend toward your brighter primary and secondary colors.

 

I don't even buy dyed grizzly hackle any more (I use a lot of it). I just keep markers on hand in the colors I like and "dye' them one feather at a time.

 

Good stuff. smile.png

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I use Sharpies for primary and secondary colors.
I use AD markers and Copic markers for tertiary colors.
I like the Copic markers because you can buy refills and also mix colors and are alcohol based.
They also flow really well thru an airbrush but are not as "permanent"

as Sharpies.
Once again it comes down to cost. The Copics are about $6/marker and the AD Markers

are $4/marker.
The Pantone markers are a bit cheaper than Copics, but more than AD markers.

Kimo

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My experience is that in due time if I have the fly long enough then the marker tends to fade out . I don't know if that is caused by UV or water. I've mostly used Sharpie but also another brand that eventually dried up because I gave up on them. I don't recall the second brand off hand but a local fly shop was selling them as permanent . I had those in chartreuse , the Sharpies are brown and also black. But I'd love to use markers to tint the barring on grizzly hackle and also tint the backs and sides of streamers with synth fibers if I knew it was actually going to last. You guys aren't experiencing this phenomenon ? Maybe I'm using the wrong stuff lol !

 

Someone mentioned airbrushing, now I could get into that with dyes.

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You are going to get a little fading overtime no matter what you use it on. Unlike a dye bath the color is not "set" into the material. Some material will accept the markers more than others. If you use it on something that you can coat with a cement afterwards, then do that, as it will greatly decrease the fading.

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I have a foam damsel fly pattern that I have tied using only white foam. When I take them with me to a local pond I take a set of Sharpie's with me and color them to what ever I need.

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Cheech, can these be used with the copic airbrush system? They look like they are the same shape roughly...

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I use Prismacolor, Sharpies, Copic and another brand. I use them mostly to color my poppers and sliders. If I'm blending colors I prefer the Prismacolor and the Sharpies. For solid colors or for sharp lines I like the Copic, plus they come in fluorescent colors.. I sometimes color materials, one of my projects for the winter is to tie up some Hoo flies for bait fish patterns. The Senyo Laser dubbing comes in hot colors. I'm looking at just getting white and using the markers to color it to get more natural looking pattern. I have used it on hackles and marabou. One of my favorite bugger patterns cause for a burnt orange marabou tail.

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Thanks for all answers. You convinced me that I needed some markers, and so just happened that the local art store had this deal on Concept brand markers, 12 basic colors for $14, so I got some.

 

Cheech's link is a better deal, but I did not want to start with 40 colors.

 

Here is my first "marked" fly...

 

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As soon as these run out, I am getting the 40.

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