After all these years I have to admit the hardest thing for me to do consistently is to dub the body of a dry fly. I have tried all of the popular synthetic materials. I have tried possum, beaver, rabbit, and everything else, and I can not get consistent results. I would rather construct a dry fly with biots or quill, because I know the results will be consistent. I have tried dubbing waxes, spit,different threads, you name it, and some flies look good, others get the single edge razor blade. I can not predict in advance what legnth of dubbing should be put on the thread to dub a body on a certain hook size. For instance, if you are dubbing a #14 Mustad hook, how long a length of thread should you apply dubbing to? Any way I am starting to ramble, am I the only person that can't master this basic step in the tieing process?