Hi Bill there are steps: Take an Indian cock hackle. Hold the hackle firmly by the tip in your right hand; stroke all the hackle barbs backwards between index finger and thumb of your other hand. Holding this barbs and the stem in your left hand, you take the butt of the hackle and very carefully begin to pull it through the fingers of left hand smoothly. Stop when your wings have a correct shape of venues. Then coat your wing with a layer of AquaFlex to give it the right shine. After a minute hang the hackle by the tip and let it dry for overnight. Gripping the coated hackle, cut it to correct shape and size of a mayfly wings. I recommend using only one wing because two wings can spin your leader and also your wing should not remind a propeller. Keep tying Vladimir (Vlad) Markov [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.keeptying.com http://markov.8m.com
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill P. Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 7:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VFB] fly wings VFB'ers I'm on the ever ongoing quest to find winging material or technique for making real looking wings. Does anybody know how to make realistic wings out of varnish & hackle feathers? Vlad? What it the technique for doing this? Can anybody give me a step by step? Does anyone know of other winging material that has realistic looking veins etc? Bill P. Music - http://www.datacomputer.com/gank/ Fly Fishing/Tying - http://www.datacomputer.com/flyfish/ Fly Swaps - http://www.datacomputer.com/flyfish/swaps.htm
