Whip Finisher

[RunninDetox 0]

Here is something all of you can try, and if you can figure it out from my wording, it will save a lot of time and effort whip finishing a fly.

 

Take the tip of your whipfinisher and straighten it out

 

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It should look sorta like that.

 

When you whip finish a fly with it like this, you can hold the whip finisher like 3-4" away from the fly. A lot quicker this way, and an added bonus...... this works on any position of the hook shank (a little trickier the closer to base you get, but easily manageable with a little practice. For the little money it costs for a whip finisher it is worth trying this. If it works for you great, if not, you can post and I'll try and explain it a little better.

 

This is one of the greatest tricks I learned from a great fly tyer, hope it works for you too!

 

Jay

[day5 0]

can you post a pic of the process and the modification Im not quite following the idea but I am intrested in the concept.

[Sean Juan 0]

I'm not sure I understand what you are getting at...which type of whip finisher are we talking about.

 

For the same money could you simply get a large sized materelli style whip finisher and accomplish the same thing?

[mcfly 0]

Don't think that'll work on mine. If I did that then it would twist around the tip of the finisher.

[dafack01 0]

Or for free, you can learn how to tie a whip finish with your hands, and put a whip finish anywhere on the fly. At least Lefty Kreh called it a whip finish on the fly tying video I saw. It's a piece of cake to tie by hand.

[Alex C. 0]

I think it pays to learn to whip finish by hand, just in case something comes up where you can't reach where you need to whip finish on a fly with a whip finisher

 

Say what I just typed 10 times fast

 

I still use a whip finish tool for 99% of my knots though

[day5 0]

I was forced to teach my self to hand whip I had 48 eggs that needed to go out one night. Na dmy elcheepo (i like it though)whip broke on the 2nd fly!!!!

[JoeFish 0]

i whip finish and half hitch by hand, it is fast and easy

 

Joe

[Blues Brother 0]

Newbie tyer here! Just wondering if anyone has a link to a site that shows how to do a whip finish by hand. Thanks.

[mcfly 0]

I've seen a whip finish done by hand but for the life of me can't do it on my own. I think I need to see it in slooooow mooooe.

[Ashby 0]

I've seen the tools but for the life of me can't figure out how to use them lol. I only know how to whip finish by hand.

[Fry Flier 0]

Here is a link to one of the couple of ways to finish by hand, step by step click arrow or scroll to the bottom to see animation.

 

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/6392/whip.html