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• Flytyer Senior Member Posts: 131 Senior Member

  June 2012 #2

  Very Nice!

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• JimS Junior Member Posts: 9 Junior Member

  June 2012 #3

  Nice work!

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  June 2012 #4

  Jim,
  
  I like that top one. Are you using any glue to support that wing?

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• ScottP Senior Member Posts: 480 Senior Member

  June 2012 #5

  Not sure what Jim uses but I put a drop of vinyl cement at the base of the wing and squeeze it with pliers to get the fan shape I want before I dub & hackle the thorax. Charlie Craven shows it in his version of John Barr's Viz-a-dun:
  
  http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/details.cfm?parentID=98
  
  I also use a biot body 'cause I like how they look (and I'm a terrible dubber).
  
  Regards,
  Scott

  They say the times are changing but I just don't know

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  June 2012 #6

  ScottP wrote: »

  Not sure what Jim uses but I put a drop of vinyl cement at the base of the wing and squeeze it with pliers to get the fan shape I want before I dub & hackle the thorax. Charlie Craven shows it in his version of John Barr's Viz-a-dun:
  
  http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/details.cfm?parentID=98
  
  I also use a biot body 'cause I like how they look (and I'm a terrible dubber).
  
  Regards,
  Scott

  
  Whoops, sorry about that. What exactly is vinyl cement? Is it different from head cement or do you think Sally Hansen's would work? I'm not sure the DTI is high enough to have more glue smells in the condo.

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• ScottP Senior Member Posts: 480 Senior Member

  June 2012 #7

  Steven,
  
  No worries. Sally Hansen's a bit too thin (I'm sure she appreciates hearing that) for this application. I got a tube of vinyl cement at Home Depot; I'm pretty sure you can find something similar at craft stores. Thinned Goop works just fine, too.
  
  Regards,
  Scott

  They say the times are changing but I just don't know

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• Juliet Posts: 49,774 Senior Member

  June 2012 #8

  I think I can slip a tube by. Thanks.

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• ScottP Senior Member Posts: 480 Senior Member

  July 2012 #9

  I been to Hollywood
  
  
  
  
  I been to Redwood
  
  
  
  I been a minin' for a heart of gold

  They say the times are changing but I just don't know

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• rvrwader Member Posts: 42 Member

  July 2012 #10

  Very Nice Flies....

  Well, I aint always right but I've never been wrong.....
  
  
  http://rvrwader.blogspot.com

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• ScottP Senior Member Posts: 480 Senior Member

  July 2012 #11

  Better to burn out, than it is to rust
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Regards,
  Scott

  They say the times are changing but I just don't know

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