(quote);Hate to say it but some just have to have everything even if they will never use half of it in a lifetime—(end quote)
Boy, isn’t THAT, the truth!! Like, ME, for instance! But, I don’t “HAVE to have it”, I may “have it”, because it was given to me,or it came to me through too good of a deal,to pass up,or, yes… I simly wanted it so I bought it, and also…most fly shops aren’t open at 2AM when I might need a chunk of belly hair from an “Ethiopian Goink”,(male).
But, mainly, my tying area looks the way it does and the amount of debris that’s on it,comes simply from around 28 years or so, of tying. You’re just plain going to “accumulate a LOT” in that amount of time!
And, to ME, it pays off in getting to sit down and tie and not finding out, I don’t have “that” particular hackle, or, “that” certain shade of marabou. Again, “2AM is not time to start shopping for it”!!
I also used to teach a lot of the new members in our club, so things sort of “grew” out of that also.
“All this stuff”, needed or not, has come in handy, also,when someone needs something and maybe doesn’t want to buy an entire neck…to get only the Schlappen feathers off the sides of one.
A good friend of mine, here on FAOL, was low on some dry fly hackle colors, so why not share? I split 3 or 4 necks, in half and sent them to him. (I wanted to send him some assorted dubbing, too, but he told me “his wife’s cat was growing him some new inventory, so I needn’t bother”).
There are lots of reasons, some of us “have a lot of stuff”!?!
It’s not, always, “I HAVE to have it”, as for the reason.
10. Dubb the thread with a 50/50 blend of Hare saddle fur and Wallaby saddle fur.