More from A.K. Bests’, Advanced Fly
Tying, chapter on Saving Time:
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Store your dubbing blends in stackable
round plastic containers that are large enough
to attach a label indicating both the color
and type of dubbing. Place another label on the
back side of each container with the recipe you
used to create each shade of dubbing in each
container. -
Keep all your dry-fly necks, bucktails, squirrel
tails, hen necks, turkey and goose quills, dyed quills,
peacock eyes- anything that’s long and could get bent
out of shape - in long plastic sleeves. -
Store all of the items in hint 13, above, in
plastic shoeboxes that you can label with the contents. -
If you use dubbing wax, remove it from the round
tube it came in, melt it, and pour it into a flat
container with a removable lid that you can attach to
your bench with a little dab of florist’s putty. Such
a container will allow you to merely stroke the surface
of the wax with your forefinger once or twice, and
you’re ready to dub. In most instances, dubbing wax
belongs on your thumb and forefinger; this will give
you greater control over the material you’re tying to
attach to the thread. ~ A. K. Best
To be continued!
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Originally published May 29, 2005 on Fly Anglers Online by AK Best.