Originally Posted by
spoonser
what about this one?
can anyone explain to me how you get that head-shape? It looks like a bunch of hair is laid in there somehow and then sculpted with scissors.
ya take a section of deer body hair & place it on top of the hook's shank. take 2 or 3 turns of #4 or #6 tying thread around the hair & shank. pull the thread in a downward & slightly back & forth motion letting the hair spin around the shank until it flares out. pull all the hair towards the back and make a turn of thread in front of the base of the hair. keep repeating the previous stepps till you fill the head up with hair just behind the eye, whip finnish & tie off then add the head cement. now ya just gota trim the hair to the shape you want.. i use a double edge razor blade to trim spun hair. the safest way to trim without cutting yourself is to put a split in the end of a bamboo kibob stick. flex the blade to the diamater ya want & hold the flex in place with a strip of packing tape, the tape that has string looking stuff in it. now ya can just use the kibob stick as a handle & dont have to handle the blade with ya fingers. you can shape with scisors but takes a while & results are not as good as it is using the razor blade method. it you decide to use scisors, use the ones that has curved blades.
Last edited by bugman; 08-31-2008 at 05:42 AM.
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