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DG please read my post again, I said the following "when a fly tyer ties a fly, He tyes to the best of his ability. That is what I believe. It does not matter the level of the tyer. If you placed your best effort in it then that is what I am talking about.". Unless I miss read your post, it sounds like you are taking me the wrong way.
The way I read it, if I am NOT tying each fly to the best of my ability, then I must not be doing it to your standards. I do very little to the best of my ability, because very little requires me to do so. It's just fly tying (or fishing), after all. I CAN spend an hour making a "perfect" fly, or I can spend two minutes making one that does what it is supposed to do, which FOR ME is to catch fish. And then I can spend the next 58 minutes tying a couple dozen more. I don't count the wraps, I don't worry if the wing is a bit lopsided, I don't worry if the space between the wire wraps is not even, I don't feel bad if I have to substitute a material here and there, and so on, because it is not necessary. The fish do not require perfection. No two insects are identical, after all.