Hi Rex,
My suggestion is just to get one of the flytier's hot point cautery tools. It will run about $24 from Chris Helms but is well worth it. I have had mine now for about 5-6 yrs and I just a few months ago point a replacement tip for it because I dropped it while cleaning up my tying desk.
It can be used for burning eyes in deerhair poppers, cleaning up stray hackle hairs, removing glue from the eyes of hooks, and cleaning off materials from hooks for salvage, and does a very good job on mono eyes and legs.
Chris helms is owner of Whitetail Flytying Supplies and has authored several tying videos and probably books as well. He is the deer hair guru and a really nice guy to do biz with. If I can locate his phone number and/or an e-mail addy I will re-post to this thread later. Also, I think Feathercraft and Cabela's carries them as well.