What is the deal with this medallion sheeting? It looks to me to be a rehash of wing zing or swiss straw! Another fine example of mr. stalcups ability to bilk money out of unknowing flytiers by renaming a current product and selling it for three times as much. Like his hoppper legs, all that stuff is is vinyl tubing with red feather fibers stuck into, heat up vinyl tbing and crimp with seratted pliers you have the same thing. He charges what 6 or 7 bucks for them? And you do not get that many. My altime favorite stalcup rehash is his D-rib. You get like three feet of this stuff for 3 bucks. It is V-rib whcih they have sold for years on spools. I do not know why it was ever called v rib it had a d shape to it if cut cross sectioned. But Stalcup, being the genius that he is, said well heck I will call this d rib and make a fortune. I am not taking away from his fly creativity, they are beautiful flies. But everytime I see his name on an article I know he has a new tying product to push. I was interested in his new book, but I just cant handle an ad that long.
Just my two cents, hope no one is offended by my opinion on this matter! I do know for a fact of at least one other VFB er, that is held in rather high regard, that shares my opinion of mr. stalcup. john ridderbos Mel Hocken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I find I am using crystal flash in almost all of my flies these days and another item >I seem to be using with greater frequency is a synthetic wing material similar to >Stalcup's medallion sheeting. These two materials have influenced my tying more than >any others in the past couple of years. >On another note if there were only two materials I could have to tie with they would >be deer hair and peacock herl. >Mel > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I want to start a new topic that I have been thinking about recently. �When I >> started tying I bought items like hackle, peacock herl, pheasant tail, dubbing you >> know the standard stuff. �There are materials that I use now more often than not, >> that I would never have thought I would use. >> Qhat I want to do here is have folks pick two materials that they use regularly now >> , that they wouldnt have thought of as common items when they started. �Here are my >> two items. �My first item is moose body. �I love to use moose body for tails on >> adams, brown drakes etc. �My other item is pheasant rump feathers. �I have never >> seen one patch of feathers have so many different types of feathers with different >> characteristics . �I use my pheasant rumps mostly for tying jack gartsides sparrow. >> �This was my number one bluegill fly for 4 years until it was replaced my a fly >> from a member of this lists creation. >> >> Just thought this might be interesting. >> >> john ridderbos > >
