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While I like the Hareline craft fur my favorite was always Doug's Bugs!  Well Targus bought them out and slowly the craft fur went away!!  I've slowly picked some up on the bay and last week got a notification there was some for sale!!  Made an offer and got 34 packs of it!!  

Wow!! Beautiful pelt!! 

I started out using Easter Egg dye, then kool aid, then liquid RIT then a buddy on FAOL sent me some Veniards then I got Fly Dye from Lure parts online.  Never had a problem with the Kool Aid bleeding as long as I set it with White Vinegar.   The Rit Liquids are good as long as you use about 1/2 the bottle but I love the Veniards and Fly Dye.  I always use Dawn liquid dish detergent and some borax in warm water to clean and soak everything.  Always make sure your materials are wet before you try dyeing.  

Looks like Hairline is now making a Law dubbing rake copy!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5BCueDR0rQ

So sad to hear!!  Talked to him many times on the FAOL board chats!!  

Thanks Norm!!  And Steve we appreciate all that you did!!

I started long ago when I was in Junior HS with Helen Shaw's fly tying.  The local library actually sold the book and it's now mine!  

And after comes the dreaded I can't find what I'm looking for!! LOL  Good Luck Buddy!!! 

Flytire - If the box doesn't fit in my mailbox I have to wait until Saturday to go pick it up at the Post Office.  I leave for work before they open and they're closed by the time I get back to town!  

I'm glad I don't need anything and I have a good stock of things.  I don't let UPS get away with delivering to the USPS, I tell them I paid for UPS you can deliver it not the Postal people!!  If a box doesn't fit in my mailbox they stick a tag in there saying the box wouldn't fit and I have to go to the PO and pick it up!  

I buy a lot of skins off ebay and I cut my own zonker strips.  

Bronze3 on ebay offers big patchs of hair for a decent price. 

I buy a lot of the Hareline assorted rabbit hide pieces packs and cut my zonkers from those and anything left I turn into dubbing.  

Hide and fur is good. 

Coffins creek furs but they're only showing a Face Book page now

Some furs dyed make for unique colors.  I did some red fox and was doing dyeing the tips on some white zonker strips and put the red fox in the dye and it came out really nice!!  If you have small pieces and dye something else try it!!  

Thank you good Sir!!  Be a darn shame to lose all that great info!!  Was really surprised that Section didn't make it.  

Well it's mostly Salmon flies I was looking for all the posts on the Classic Style Wet Flies and people that had tied all the old Bergman style wet flies.  

What happened to the Classic fly tying section of Wet flies and Streamers?  There was a lot of good stuff in there!!

I use Fly Dye from Anglers Workshop. Make sure the bucktail is really wet when you do it so it sucks up the dye and then some white vinegar to set the color. They are low on colors right now. http://www.anglersworkshop.com/Water-Fo ... s-Fly-Dyes

Guess they sold quick - only seeing fly lines

I do it to make my own so I don't have to buy them and with cold winter's here in Vermont gives me something to do.  But I also use the materials to tie jigs, which I also make.  

Save money?  I'd have to say no.  

Learned how to prep feathers that duck hunters sent me and learned to dye them so I'm only buying the dye to do them.  But get the really nice big feathers that you usually don't find in the packs at the fly shop.  

I have an old Herter's Vise, a couple Thompsons and I wanted a new vise and years ago bought a Dyna-King Kingfisher.  Can't believe the cost of them now!!  

Like others have traded for different materials and have way more than I'll probably ever use myself.  

Everyone has to decide for themselves how deep into they go.  Mine will NEVER make a show fly but they catch fish.  Good enough for me! 

I do it to make my own so I don't have to buy them and with cold winter's here in Vermont gives me something to do.  But I also use the materials to tie jigs, which I also make.  

Save money?  I'd have to say no.  

Learned how to prep feathers that duck hunters sent me and learned to dye them so I'm only buying the dye to do them.  But get the really nice big feathers that you usually don't find in the packs at the fly shop.  

I have an old Herter's Vise, a couple Thompsons and I wanted a new vise and years ago bought a Dyna-King Kingfisher.  Can't believe the cost of them now!!  

Like others have traded for different materials and have way more than I'll probably ever use myself.  

Everyone has to decide for themselves how deep into they go.  Mine will NEVER make a show fly but they catch fish.  Good enough for me! 

I always washed them in dawn and borax and brushed to get them really clean then tack them and pour borax on top to dry out.  If you're going to dye them make sure they're clean and leave them wet to put in the dye.  

Thanks for the heads up I'll have to check it out!

Nice find

My main cutter for zonkers   

I use Fly Dye from Lure parts https://www.lurepartsonline.com/Anglers-Fly-Dyes?page=1

If you can boil water and pour it in a raised letter canning jar (trust me), and then put some vinegar to set the color you can dye.   A little of this dye goes a LONG ways!!

Permanent markers and a ruler, but they do fade.  A friend on another board did a youtube video on markers and it takes some time to watch it but it's really good!!