10-27-2003, 04:27 PM
[cool]Good points. I also keep a damp spong or cloth handy for working with flyaway feathers and fur. More effective and more sanitary.
You never know where some of that stuff has been. Even worse, you sometimes don't remember what you have been handling before licking your fingers.
Pick up a cheap dust buster at a yard sale. Everybody gets rid of them sooner or later. They also work to keep the light fibres down to a minimum.
When tying many fly or jig patterns, using marabou, it is almost impossible to do a good job of wrapping if you do not dampen the feathers as you work. The bunny fur can be just as ornery, if you are using fur with long hairs...especially when wrapping strips around hook shanks coated with glue.
I also use a lot of empty plastic containers...whipped topping, bread spread, etc. They also make good "drying racks" to hang painted jigheads between steps in the painting and eyeing processes. I haven't decided whether the low fat whipped topping containers are any better than the regular.
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You never know where some of that stuff has been. Even worse, you sometimes don't remember what you have been handling before licking your fingers.
Pick up a cheap dust buster at a yard sale. Everybody gets rid of them sooner or later. They also work to keep the light fibres down to a minimum.
When tying many fly or jig patterns, using marabou, it is almost impossible to do a good job of wrapping if you do not dampen the feathers as you work. The bunny fur can be just as ornery, if you are using fur with long hairs...especially when wrapping strips around hook shanks coated with glue.
I also use a lot of empty plastic containers...whipped topping, bread spread, etc. They also make good "drying racks" to hang painted jigheads between steps in the painting and eyeing processes. I haven't decided whether the low fat whipped topping containers are any better than the regular.
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