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and single turn=a single turn......

and the whip finish statement doesn't matter if your gonna use some herl or dubbing "before" the hackle.....go head and whip it.....taking the turns forward.

daringduffer wrote:

narcodog wrote:As you are compiling your book how about adding clear color plates of Pearsall's silk including the old colors. With this put the numbers and color designations.

Already done!!!!
We are also adding images of the hard to get materials like Corncrake, Owl and so on. Hope also adding some images of several manuscripts including one that will rewrite some soft hackle history. I will also be including several pattern book lists that have never seen the light of day, detailing flies that were in use on the dales rivers in the past. I will also be adding proper bio information on famous tyers, writers and river keepers (Watchers as we call them in Yorkshire) as Magee is wrong on many of his history matters.

willowhead wrote:Definately a good idea...... i've finally started using the Pearsalls for doing bodies.........makes great bodies. i don't really like tying with it, so once i've got the body done, i switch over to Danville (sometimes Uni 8/0 for little hooks), for laying down a base for the hackle, and for the head. Pearsalls heads just end up to bulky. Also, i don't whip the Peasalls.....i simply tye it off (and trim it) with the Danville. No need for a bump right where your gonna tye your hackle in. Danville flattens so nicely......you get a much cleaner fly that way. So i start the fly (body) bout 4 eye lengths back, go down to the bend and back, then bring the Danville into the picture. At the bend, leave the last turn and single turn forming a tiny taper goin' forward. Also, trim your tag that your wraping over bout half way down to the bend.....also adding to the tapered effect.

Just un-spin your Pearsalls so it lies flat, it will reduce your head thickness by 50%

Hey Bob.....thankx you very much.........i just never got into using Peasalls much til just lately.........it's very beautiful as you know......and for those patterns that call for simple silk bodies, i can't imagine anything can beat it. i've done quite a few soft hackles over the years using silk.....but it wasn't Pearsalls, and i didn't use it with a bobbin holder. i'd just cut a length and wrap by hand, tying if off with the thread i had on a bobbin holder. i've gotta try flattening the Peasalls.....btw, can you give me some advice on how the heck to keep the stuff from always wanting to fall to the table. i've got it under control pretty much.....but i hadda squeeze my bobbin holder unbelieveably just to get it to hold tight enough to keep the bobbin of thread from falling all the time...........slippery damn things.......wass up with that? The silk is slippery, the bobbins are slippery..... It's like tryin' to ice skate. Which i've never done, but i gotta pretty wild imagination.....rotfl....... Tkx.
p.s. i'll be wantin' a copy of the book for sure.........but i'll need it signed please.

BobSmith wrote:

daringduffer wrote:

narcodog wrote:As you are compiling your book how about adding clear color plates of Pearsall's silk including the old colors. With this put the numbers and color designations.

Already done!!!!
We are also adding images of the hard to get materials like Corncrake, Owl and so on. Hope also adding some images of several manuscripts including one that will rewrite some soft hackle history. I will also be including several pattern book lists that have never seen the light of day, detailing flies that were in use on the dales rivers in the past. I will also be adding proper bio information on famous tyers, writers and river keepers (Watchers as we call them in Yorkshire) as Magee is wrong on many of his history matters.

That's my kind of book!! Collecting bits and pieces of knowledge is great fun. If it's useful knowledge...well...unbeatable.

I'm eagerly awaiting and hope you remember that I ordered a copy already.

(Have you come around to use that "vaxbeck")?

dd

Bob, please read above.....is there a trick to using the Pearsalls in a bobbin holder........????? Tkx.

Don't use a bobbin, just a length of waxed pearsalls

I tied some flies for a Tenkara USA swap using Pearsall's Marabou off the bobbin. I was able to tie fast but I had allot more waste, which I don't care for. i don't even take wire or tinsel off the spool nor lead.

Thankx Johnno.....that makes perfect sense, except for the fact that my hands are always in such terrible shape.....i'd be tearin' that silk up. That's why i wanna use it off a bobbin. i spose i could do the emroy (emeroy?) (emerey?) (emorey? lmao), board number each time..........what a pain.
narcodog.....i use to worry bout waste back in the days.........but i got over that............waste just comes with the territory in fly tyin'............i stoped worryin' bout it quite a while back.

Mark - Wasatch sells a bobbin holder specially designed for the small Pearsall spools. They call it a Ceramic Micro Wood Trim Bobbin. This thing is awesome.

http://www.flytyingtools.com/webpages/t ... micro.html