Originally Posted by
whatfly
Can any of you ... share some tips on the best way to taper the tails of a pattern when using synthetic materials? For example, let's say you were using slinky fiber or similar to tie a sea habit or even clouser and you wanted to get a nice tapered tail. What's the best way of achieving the right effect? Are tapering scissors the answer or is there a simple method....
I don't do much with synthetics, but the fellows I see at fly tying demos usually trim / taper the tails not by clipping the material with the scissors, but by holding the material out behind the fly and using open scissors to cut the materials as they work it from the front of the taper out to the end of the finished tail.
John
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