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Renomed: Cut out to be timeless

Feb 20. 2019
The making of Polish Renomed scissors - for fly tying and other purposes. They are not made in the thousands. They are not made by machines.
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Rotating your bobbin holder

Feb 19. 2019
Spin If you want to use the advantages of controlling twist in your tying thread, you need a bobbin holder that allows rotation. Not all do.
Learn more here
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Tool Tip: Dubbing Twisters

Feb 5. 2019
Wayne Luallen shows a couple of models of simple dubbing twisters.
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Tool Tip: Dubbing Teasers

Feb 5. 2019
Wayne Luallen introduces a type of dubbing teaser shaped more like a brush.
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Tool Tip: Bodkin Cleaning

Feb 5. 2019
Wayne Luallen shows an easy way to clean varnish and other things off your dubbing needle.
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Tool Tip: Lead Shear

Feb 5. 2019
Wayne Luallen shows a neat tool for cutting deer and elk hair off the hide
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Tool tip: Polishing the Bobbin Holder Tube

Feb 5. 2019
Wayne Luallen shows how to get the inside of the bobbin holder tube smooth and free of burrs to avoid breaking or fraying the thread.
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Tool Tip: Hair Stackers

Feb 5. 2019
Wayne Luallens shows a couple of types of hair stackers for fly tying, including the closed end hair stacker.
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Tool Tip: Sharpening Scissor Tips

Feb 5. 2019
Wayne Luallen shows how to sharpen the tips of your scissors to enable you to reach in a cut very close and precisely.
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Tool Tip: Bobbin Holder Threader

Feb 5. 2019
A fly tying tool tip from Wayne Luallen. Using the Wasatch Rotating Bobbin Threader. Find the Wasatch tool here.
Article

Crystallin Task Light

Dec 17. 2018
Light My search for a great fly tying lamp may be over. This one is close to ideal for my purposes
See my review here
Video

Dubbing Brushes

Sep 4. 2018
Dubbing brushes are very effective ways of creating dynamic bodies on large streamers.
Article

Tom’s bobbin holders

Mar 1. 2018
DIY Get ready to meet the “Hummingbird”, a very different bobbin holder designed and made by Dutch Tom Biesot
See the article here
Article

DIY dubbing brush maker

Feb 7. 2018
Spinning Bretislav has a little machine in his collection of fly-tying tools. It was made by his father about 20 years back.
See how to make it here
Video

Fly Tying Gadgets: Organizer bins

Dec 29. 2017
Staying organized in fly tying is essential, and in this brief tutorial, I share some bins that have helped me over the years.

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