I Know Better Than That!!!!!!!!!

Just shaking my head at myself... dug out some muskrat skins and cut all the dark hair from one entire skin. It makes a pretty good size wad of dubbing. But I could not find the carding combs and the drive band on the big carding machine is broken. I wanted to blend it nicely and by hand was not working. The coffee grinder is too slow and I am too impatient.

Then I remembered hearing about a plastic bag and a hair dryer.

Yup, a hair dryer.

The bag filled quickly but it still felt like a big wad instead of fluttering hair mixing. Then the bag slipped out of my hand...

Looking up into the mirror I realized I was caught in a snow dome of muskrat fur in great abundance! Shirtless, pot-bellied old man looking very sheepish is an image hard to forget.
art

Art,

I believe it is called OFS. :D Good to hear from you, at least a dog didn't eat it like it did the bird feathers from years ago.

Larry ---sagefisher---

That's a great descriptive story I think we can all sort of relate to in one way or another! :)
Just imagine if you were sweaty...and all that muskrat fur STUCK to you?

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Originally Posted by hap

Just shaking my head at myself... dug out some muskrat skins and cut all the dark hair from one entire skin. It makes a pretty good size wad of dubbing. But I could not find the carding combs and the drive band on the big carding machine is broken. I wanted to blend it nicely and by hand was not working. The coffee grinder is too slow and I am too impatient.

Then I remembered hearing about a plastic bag and a hair dryer.



Yup, a hair dryer.

The bag filled quickly but it still felt like a big wad instead of fluttering hair mixing. Then the bag slipped out of my hand...

Looking up into the mirror I realized I was caught in a snow dome of muskrat fur in great abundance! Shirtless, pot-bellied old man looking very sheepish is an image hard to forget.
art

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Nope....This:

https://vimeo.com/10793808


PT/TB

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Art,

I believe it is called OFS. :D Good to hear from you, at least a dog didn't eat it like it did the bird feathers from years ago.

Larry ---sagefisher---

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Good to hear from you, too Larry! That was a few moons ago, for sure. I did just get a bunch of those Mearn's quail and really like tying with them.

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Originally Posted by FishnDave

That's a great descriptive story I think we can all sort of relate to in one way or another! :)
Just imagine if you were sweaty...and all that muskrat fur STUCK to you?

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Now you bring up the truly embarrassing part... yes, I was sweaty! Yes, when I got out of the shower this morning there was plenty of 'rat fur on the towel...

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Originally Posted by planettrout

Nope....This:

https://vimeo.com/10793808


PT/TB

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That system uses a lot of expensive cans of air for small batches... and the wad I had (it is somewhat smaller now...) was huge. I did not poke holes, either... mea culpa!

The story brought a few pictures to mind. Nightmares tonight.
Good to hear from you.
Rick

I'm sorry that I laughed at the end of your story, but only because I could picture myself doing exactly the same thing. When stuff like that happens, the only thing you can do is to laugh at yourself.

Best of luck. P.S. I wish you could have provided at least one photo of what you looked like after it happened.

Jim Smith

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The story brought a few pictures to mind. Nightmares tonight.
Good to hear from you.
Rick

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Thank you for picking up what I was laying down! No need for pictures for you!

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That is hilarious . Would love to have watched it live. Good to hear from you; hope all is well.