I was given a rather significant quantity of wine bottle corks recently. I was curious as to whether you could cut these into smaller pieces for bodies for panfish flies? Just wondering what others do? I know I can turn these on a Dremel or lathe for popper bodies but looking to do smaller sizes.
Thanks for any input.
May have just answered my own question. I cut a cork into quarters length wise and can get eighth’s if I can keep my fingers out of the way. then just cut the lengths into desired sections. I think I can get about 40 bodies out of one cork.
Cork runs me nuts except to make food pellet flies. But the plastic foam corks are great I cut them crosswise to approx. length and then use a tube cutter in my variable speed drill to cut cylinders which I shape on my cordless B&D dremel type tool with an emery board.
Glue the cork to a stick then sand it to shape, then cut the cork off the stick w/ a razor blade
I usually rough cut them to the size I want with an X-acto saw, then sand them to the shape I want,glue them to the hook, then paint a base coat of white Testors model enamel followed by whatever other color I want them to be. I usually do up a big pile of heads over the winter when I have nothing better to do, then put tails and legs on them as I need them when the season rolls around.