jax,

I strip them poorly. w/ my thumbnails when they're long enough (rarely) and with a pencil eraser when they aren't. allan swears up and down about using parafin wax and oneofthesedaze if I ever come across some parafin, I'm gonna strip a lifetime supply worth.

I was flipping through forgotten flies last night adimring the work of defeo, he used a lot of stripped peacock quills as ribbing on his nymphs and it looks great. and either defeo or preston jenning used stripped quills for wingcases...

[This message has been edited by mikeytwoshoes (edited 18 January 2006).]