DonO asked me to post this for him.
"For flat lead in many sizes as needed, I make my own from round lead
wire. Just lay down a strip of round lead (any diameter) on a hard flat
surface and drag a hard but rounded object down the length of the strip,
using enough pressure to flatten the lead but not break it. It depends
on some variables, but a little practice will tell you what is needed.
You can flatten once just to take the roundness off of it, or many times
to make it paper thin (but much weaker- wrap with care).
Experiment with different diameters of wire and different thicknesses of
finished flattened wire to get just what you want. For midges, a piece
of fine round wire flattens out paper thin and make little difference in
the final diameter of the fly. Lay down some head cement 1st and that
will cement the flat wraps against the hook perfectly. Scissor-trim the
tie-down start as a tapered point so you can wrap without over-wrapping
to get it started.
For tapered lead bodies, just flatten out the roundness progressively
down the length, and then when you wrap, the final thickness will vary,
rather than having to use over-wraps.
For flat, tapered lead underbodies (flat bodied flies), wrap a flattened
lead wire body a little thicker than you want, but tapered like above.
Then crush the body in a smooth-jawed needle-nose pliers, and you end up
with a shaped lead underbody than you can 'freeze' with head cement.
This method of flattening your own lead allows you infinite variability
in how much you weight a fly and it allows to to use any round lead wire."
DonO
Thanks, Denny
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