Byard if someone is needed for this to happen or someone decides not to i'll buy a share plus Byard or Don does Linesend still have (awesome hair UV pearl)& (Caribou) i got samples with my last order and would like to get a pack of each.Let meknow if i can get in and how much and who to pay thanks mike kelly
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Byard Miller Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VFB] Whiting Co-op Swap - Original Post Have heard some folks are having difficulties finding the original post...so here it is again... >>Do this swap through Byard for purchasing the saddles . He can order what >>he doesn't have. >>He may even be able to divide the necks and send them to the individual >>swappers. Mind you, I'm not volunteering him for anything. > > > >THANKS DonO...and yes that was stated factitiously...;^) It never >fails...a surprise always awaits my return! > >OK folks here are my suggestions... > >I get to weasel out of the drudgery due to a contract that I signed >with Whiting Farms that forbids the changing of any packaging. For >instance, I am not allowed to divide a full cape into a half >cape...I must purchase the partial capes from Whiting. So plucking >and sorting and dividing is contractually disallowed...<VBG> > >Since there appears to be quite a bit of interest in a Whiting Co-op >Swap I'll use the following numbers scenario. It can of course be >adjusted. Twelve swappers join in...six full bronze saddles of >different colors are purchased (hopefully from Line's End...<g>). >You discuss amongst yourselves which six participants get to do the >grunt work. Each of those six receives one of the saddles and twelve >long zip-locks. They will pluck out all of the dry fly feathers and >divide them equitably among the twelve bags and mail them out to the >rest of the group. Those six will be doing all the work but there >will be a benefit for their labors...they get to keep the plucked >cape which contains some nice webby bugger hackle and fluffy marabou. > >Each bronze saddle will hackle a minimum of 500 dry flies. I just >randomly picked a bronze saddle and counted 220 usable feathers...at >a very conservative five flies per feather that actually equates to >1100 flies. But using this as an example you should each get about >18 feathers per color, which exceeds the quantity in a typical 100 >pack. > >The only stumbling block that I foresee is the postal cost from >plucker to swapper. It should only cost about sixty cents per >mailing...or $6.60 per batch. I guess if you each ante up an extra >$4, I could forward a portion of the cash with each of the saddles >being sent to the pluckers. > >The cost for each participant would be $24 (6 saddles @$40 + the >extra postage, divided by 12), for which you would each receive the >equivalent of six 'fat' 100 packs...a $66 value. > >Looks like it could work. We are now open for discussion. > >keep tyin'...byard
