... a high lustrous finish. Recently I have started using a clear Nylon based coating, similar to that used in the automotive indu... ...stry to protect my patinas. A wax is still used over this coating. - To maintain your bronze, a clear shoe wax can be lightly dabbed on to the surface...

...hed head looks like. It has just a coat of clear nail polish to seal the threads. This is one time where your aim is not for a tiny head. If you're go... ...l polish. The finished head and a blurry photo - sorry . This is after two coats of nail polish. The upside to using...

...em and barbs. As recommended by Dick Talleur it helps to coat the jungle cock nails with head cement before tying them in. Coating them prevents the n...

... 0.35 millimeters mono tippet to knot on the 5 kilo multistrand plastic coated bite tippet. But then you'd better watch out, because any hangup - and ... ...nd than fixing the additional 3 to 5 wraps by melting together the plastic coating. It's ...

...pect is that it does not soak up moisture, or indeed oil. The oil can only coat the feather parts, not become an internal part of it. If it was solely... ...ni-thread 8/0 Black Body One peccary fiber or heavy size thread, coated with varnish Thorax Three strands of peacock herl Wing Four large CDC feathers...

...th 15 to 20 wraps of lead wire BODY gold mylar piping; underbody of curon; coat body with lacquer or epoxy to p... ...15 to 20 wraps of lead wire. BODY silver mylar piping; underbody of curon; coat body with lacquer or epoxy to protect from unraveling wh...

...read for the wings and head. I used Paul's Super Cement on the head with a coating of black lacquer for the finish coat. I think that I would like to ...

...that yields some extra yards in the cast. Fast rods, complex tapers, slick coatings, smooth shooting lines, clips, baskets, lubricants and what-have-y... ... grams or half an ounce plus a bit. The shooting line is braided sometimes coated. I never use ...

...ead with the fingers, but only with the dubbing. Then one gets a very fine coat of dubbing, that let the thread be seen after winding. I turn the hack... ...ook and wound the thread to the very end of the shank - giving the turns a coat of thin lacquer before I continued. Then I placed the gut under the sh...

...pping on top of the final layer of bucktail. Build a neat head and apply a coat of thin head cement to seal the wraps. Finish the head with epoxy or a... ...coats of a thick, high gloss head cement. A few notes about materials and proportions: Double the tail I make sure I double the flashabou tail to impr...