After receiving a number of inquires about the dubbing brush twisters I was making, I relented and completed a couple of them for folks. I now find myself with some of the necessary supplies to make these so I thought I’d make 5 or 6 more of them if anyone is interested. The cost will be $30.00 plus actual shipping. If you’re not familiar with the dubbing brush twister I designed, you can check it out on youtube at this link [FONT=Calibri]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozuKuJwWFns [/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri]Please PM me if you’re interested and it will be first come first serve for the first six people.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Calibri]Thanks[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]Jim Smith[/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri]Conyers, GA [/FONT]
Thanks to Mikey (ohiotuber) and Jack Hise, I own one of Jim’s dubbing brush twisters and it is a wonderful fly tying tool! Jim makes one of the finest dubbing twister blocks you could ever own and the work is top of the line quality. It is worth a lot more than what he is asking for it and you will be proud to own one and use one. On those days you really do not feel like tying flies, you can make up dubbing brushes which will really save you time when using them for tying flies. Don’t pass up this opportunity to own one.
Ditto what Warren said…I suspect these will go rapidly. It works very well to sit watching the TV…with a cutting board on your lap and the dubbing brush platform on it with tools and turn out brushes to your heart’s content.
Jim, I’ve kept my eye out for the collets with the four slots and haven’t found any…do you have a source?
Nice video, and VERY well-conceived and manufactured product!
I’m IN!
Rick Z had sent me some dubbing brushes he’d done on some wire. They sure are handy to have around! Its as easy as wrapping chenille on a hookshank.
Adding in a hackle feather is a very interesting idea that hadn’t occured to me. I’ll have to try that, for sure. I suppose soft-hackle would work too.
Now…who’s gonna sell the home-made drying wheels??
Excellent tool. I believe I was a very early owner & love the thing…hence the idea to get one to Warren, who is a fine host for any looking to head to Tullahoma, TN.
You can get very creative with the twister, & it’s a very easy tool to use.
Spend the 30 bucks folks…You’ll never regret it!
Mike
Thank you Warren and Ducksterman for the kind words, they are appreciated.
David,
Using dubbing brushes does a number of things for you at the bench. First off, you’ll be able to create dubbing brushes that give you unique and different looking flies that you simply can’t do without a dubbing brush. You will also be able to tie in a nice spikey body in about 20 seconds that is almost indestructable. The leech patterns I tie using seal fur last for well over 100 fish and the’re still going strong. Also, as Warren and Ducksterman mentioned, if you don’t feel like tying, you can sit in front of the TV and make dubbing brushes for later use. Then when you’re at the bench, you really shorten the time to tie any pattern that uses a spikey dubbed body. For warm water, you can add rubber legs to the brushes about every 1/4 inch that make some killer bass patterns. All-in-all, the dubbing brush twister has been one of the most useful tools I’ve added to the bench. I’ll try to take some photos of some of the dubbing brushes and patterns that I make and you can decide if if would be useful or not to you.
Hi ducksterman,
a few years ago, I read an article about making peacock dubbing brushes by dipping the butt ends of about
5 strips of herls into a hot glue pot. The glue pots can be purchased in hobby/craft shops.
gerri
The speed of tying the fly with a pre-made brush I will agree with . However I disagree with the first statement, you CAN get the exact same look by making the “brush” on a standard dubbing loop when you’re tying the fly. It’s just not as fast as a pre-made brush but it CAN be done. Take the example in your youtube link at the beginning of this thread. If one uses a dubbing loop (while tying ) and inserts the seal mix and saddle hackle like you made the brush out of, wont the fly look the same? please explain what you “simply can’t do without a dubbing brush” . Other than tie a fly as fast?
Pretty slick tool…but I agree with BB. I’ve become comfortable and pretty adept with a thread or wire loop and a shepards hook & with identical results. However, I was going to tie a hundred or something of a particular pattern…it would surely expedite the process to have a bunch of pre-spun brushes.
Perhaps some people can get a very similar look with a dubbing loop, but I’m not even sure about that. You must admit, adding rubber legs to a dubbing loop hanging down from the hook shank can be somewhat frustrating. This tool does allow you to create some very neat effects and makes for more durable flies. That being said, it’s just another tool that makes tying flies a bit easier and faster which is what it is designed to do.
If you’d like to PM me you mailing address and I’ll send you a couple dubbing brushes to try out.
I’m happy to say that I will soon be a proud owner of one of Jim’s excellent dubbing brush twisters. I will then permanently retire the wooden disaster that I’ve been using for the last couple of decades. It’s a piece of my fly tying history that should have been retired several hours after I made it. I’m eagerly waiting for the postman. 8T
Got a peacock herl brush and took it apatrt. It lolkslike it has size 34 guage wore loosely wrapper around it. I was not able to duplicate it on my dubbing brush tool.
It looks like they do it by hand and ccross the wires about every 1/4 of an inch. Wires crossed above herl one one wrap and then below on the next wrap.
Irope dub herl now and have not had a problem.
I got one from you on EBay, and I love it. I’ve had it for about a year (or more) now, and I don’t know how I got along without one. It makes good tight dubbed bodies, just like cheniile, only better. I love to make brushes from Ice Dub Peacock, and use them instead of delicate herl.
I make my peacock herl brushes by using my regal as a clamp on xfine copper wire. Then insert the herl and twist with a shepards hook until it breaks. If I clamp the herl and wire together and twist till it breaks at the shepards hook, it creates a brush good for 2 #12 bodies;^)
Folks,
I’ll say it again. You’ll not find a more honest man than Jim &, over the years, he has shown that anything he “invents or makes” is well worth MORE than he ever charges. He’s pretty darned creative.
Buy with confidence.
Mike
Thanks for the kind words and the vote of confidence, but I consider myself just like all the folks here on FAOL, eager to learn and happy to share. I’m far from the most talented fly tyer, so I try to make up for that by creating gadgets that make things a little simplier and maybe more enjoyable for some of us “tying challenged” folks
I hope that you’re having a wonderful spring and a getting time for lots of fishing.
