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Here's my killer soft hackle...

Try googling 'UV LED' There are quite a few choices out there. I think there are some pretty cheap ones available that they use for checking for counterfeit money.

Mike

I generally prefer the English style hackle pliers--the ones made out of heavy gauge spring wire--but I 'Americanize' them before I use them. The problem is that the part you squeeze to open them is...

A drill motor works fine for turning cork grips. Here's the setup I use...

When I am in a float tube and need to go to the tip top, I just lower the rod vertically in the water until I get at the tip top. Reel is not going to come to any harm under water, but do tighten up...

I have found I can thin regular epoxy with acetone but it considerably lengthens the curing time like 2x or 3x. Flex coat and similar stuff seems to be a bit tricky--less tolerant of mixes that are...

The resin in fly rods is thermo-setting, not thermo-plastic. That means they don't get soft when heated. When the blank is made, it is cooked in an oven at several hundred degerees to turn the cloth...

The chemistry approach is in general a pretty bad idea as it will attack the resin of the rod itself. Get yourself a pack of 100 single edge razor blades, you'll use lots of them. Shave along the top...

You might try the Cortland Factory Store [url=http://www.cortlandline.com/factorystore/:19d0d]http://www.cortlandline.com/factorystore/[/url:19d0d] I've gotten some good buys there.

Mike

I have subscribed to it for years. I haven't seen anything else I like as well. It's somewhat oriented to the west coast and the west in general although it's not exclusively so. Since I live in...

The needle threaders work well if you modify them as I have described at...

I am a member and past president of the Peninsula Fly Fishers on the San Francisco Peninsula. We have 12 general meetings a year. Two of them are dinner meetings with no speaker (installation of new...

I also use PVC pipe cement, but what I do is use a piece of plate glass. I swab a daub of cement on the glass, lay the feather on it, and then swab it again with the cement. It's a pretty fumy...

I went through the exercise of a bamboo rod rebuild a couple of months ago. It had belonged my father-in-law, who got me started fly fishing, and he got it from his father. At 88 he was pretty much...

One thread type I have found useful is so-called invisible thread. It's nylon monofilament about 0.004" diameter, equivalent about to 7x, quite strong for the diameter and available dirt cheap in...

I have found scaling everything proportionately seems to work reasonably well. In my article on my club's web site...

Ott lites are no doubt pleasant to use for tying, but they are rather over-hyped in terms of their color performance. I work in the area of color imaging, and we use a quality measure of color...

You can add me to the list in Palo Alto CA. You might find my how-to article interesting...