A Kelly Galloup minute:
Big fan of his, his patterns, and all his videos with great techniques.
This is about his dubbing technique to get variegated dubbed bodies.
To get a ?banding? of two colors on the fly?s abdomen, you combine two colors of dubbing, but do not hand blend them more than 3 times.
I/3 of ?lesser? color?.2/3 of ?dominant? color.
I really like the results.
Interesting. I put he two colors in a dubbing loop.
Rick
THank you. I REALLY like this type of posting. Living in Florida, I don’t have a real need to tie too many of the beautiful trout and salmon patterns I see here on FAOL fly Tying board, so showing tips, tricks and techniques is very much appreciated.
Jim Smith
So glad to share anything that may be of interest.
Wish members would ask questions about tying. I’m sure someone could supply good info for them.
Would it produce the same effect or, in effect, produce a blended third color?
Kelly’s method is done specifically to get two separate colors to alternate……producing a banding of colors.
Here is one with two colors in a dubbing loop.
i just dub each color inline for the same result
I think there is a misunderstanding of what Galloup’s technique is trying to achieve. Two complementary colors alternating with each turn of the thread.
Along the lines of spectrablend dubbing, but not “spotty” like that.
i have bad eyes
i see olive? dubbing not alternating bands of different colors
post a video of his method
Olive and brown
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His video is on youtube
Starts method at 11:54 on video:
Please let me know how his explanation differs from mine. Thanks!
Waiting to hear back from Nfrechrette…………
Not the variegation I?m looking for. In his method, you get alternating colors in each turn of thread as your sparse dubbing has a few fibers of each color throughout.
I think if you watch the video I posted a link to, you will understand.
Apparently it’s difficult to understand via a written ten explanation.
well i watched the video but i honestly cant tell if he achieved the variegated look he was talking about. the camera angle is just too far away
(too long of a video to watch all the way through with a lot of bull shite thrown in)
i guess if it works in your tying then go for it
I did provide the time of the video to watch for just the dubbing technique so you could skip his other explanations of tying the fly. The dubbing method didn’t take long to watch.
Difficult to take a picture of a picture. But, this is a picture of a couple of his crippled spinners from his book “Cripples & Spinners”.
I can see the color variegation in the bodies. Anyone else able to see that?
yes i went to the time you indicated in the video
but like i said above “i honestly cant tell if he achieved the variegated look he was talking about. the camera angle is just too far away”
plus the colors he chose were too close to being the same at least to my aging eyes
maybe a dubbing loop would give the same desired result
or even fly rite dubbing that was variegated
it is okay to have a different opinion
It certainly is ok…,…remember Caucci &Nastasi who came up with their Spectrumized Dubbing . They too realized that there really isn’t one solid color in nature on living things.
But, I prefer this to their finely chopped up dubbing as I can see random color variations in the dubbed bodies using his method. Also gives that ribbing effect to my eyes.
