Ima, Henk has some very good tips. One option is to use hackle saddles instead of necks. Whiting's Super Saddles, genetically bred for tying 1000's of flies, are available at Line's End (the owner of this site). They are not 'cheap' per piece, but compared to necks for large-scale commercial tying, they tie many times more flies. Do a little research and you'll see the numbers.
Necks= a small amount of shorter hackles over a broad range of sizes, plus large bugger and streamer feathers. Saddles= a huge amount of very long feathers over a narrow range of sizes, plus a few underbody feathers for buggers and wets. Join on of Byard's CO-op swaps to get a good sampling of these hackles to see what they can mean for you. Back out to the barn... :o) (does that mean that I'm 'barn again'?) (Question: I'm cleaning up the barn where the previous owners had a chicken-coop- dark and eerie in there. I keep hearing clucking noises. Could that be a poultrygeist?) DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henk Verhaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [VFB] From Imagine On 30 Aug, 2005, at 4:46, Imagine Mamawaka wrote: > I order Best Production Tying and hope that it will assist in my > needs for more and faster flies. It will not arive for many > weeks. For now how can I have faster flies? Basically, be methodical, think like an assembly line. Plus of course practice, practice, practice. Some of the 'speed-up' tips in Best's book, which I still think is the best technique book out there, bar none, are to organize your work station, care for good ergonomics, and separate production tying into individual steps, such as sizing hackle before starting tying (i.e. take a neck and pluck it bare, collecting all same size hackles and putting them in their separate containers, so that when you need to tie a hundred dozen size 12 'you- name-its' you have 1200 hackles in that size at your finger tips... Or when you need to tie a bunch of bunch wing parachutes, tie all bunch wings first, then progress to the next step. =============================== ><(((((º> =============================== | Dr. Henk J.M. Verhaar | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Ecotoxicoloog en vliegbinder | tel: 035 656 2128 | | Stichts End 17 | mobiel: 06 26 136034 | | NL-1244 PK Ankeveen | web: www.xs4all.nl/ ~flyrod | =============================== <º)))))>< ===============================
