04-06-2009, 06:24 PM
That wouldn't work for those of us who whip finish by hand, FlyGoddess. We'd get it all over our hands, which would soon be coated with bits of fluff, thread clippings, etc.
But if you thin the nail polish it gets sucked down into the underlying thread layers, as well as the final whip, binding everything together.
Lots of people like the shiny head. And British flydressers, particularly salmon fly tyers, would never release a fly that wasn't finished that way. But it's done for the eye of the angler, cuz the fish don't care one way or the other.
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But if you thin the nail polish it gets sucked down into the underlying thread layers, as well as the final whip, binding everything together.
Lots of people like the shiny head. And British flydressers, particularly salmon fly tyers, would never release a fly that wasn't finished that way. But it's done for the eye of the angler, cuz the fish don't care one way or the other.
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