…unravelling?? try making a few spool minders like the following
http://www.lakelandflytying.com/1949/products/Fly_tying_spool_hands.aspx
plastic bead
elastic banding
heat shrink tubing
crazy glue (for gluing the elastic to the bead before adding the heat shrinktube)
Norm,
they work great! made like 50 for 5.00 and use them on everything
G
Discovered those about 5 years ago. I use them for all sorts of spooled tinsel. They work great. Some of the tippet manufacturers supply one with each spool.
i have used ponytail holders from the local drugstore to do the same thing–cost wvery little
I guess I’m dumb.
I don’t understand how they work.
Mine are on bobbins, because I use a Norvise automatic bobbin system for my threads. So I have a few extra bobbins around.
Am I doing this all wrong?
Never mind. Most likely I am.
Ignorance is bliss! :lol:
Can you get these in the US? As far as keeping tinsel from unraveling I have used rubber bands, not tight though.
the idea was to make them from simple materials foud at the local big box craft store or department
rubber bands will dry out after awhile
Hi Kelkay, I also use rubber bands that work even on the small rewound sewing machine bobbin spools that I use . These tiny rubber bands can be bought by the box in office supply stores.
I use the spool minders on all my spools of wire. The difference between them and a rubber band is that you can pull the wire off the spool without taking it off, and without the wire coming unwound.
Steve
Thanks, Steve!
That is worth a thousand words. Works like some bungie ties I have seen, but the thread is brought through the bead.
OK, got it now.
Thanks again! 
Has anyone had any trouble when pulling tippet…especially fine tippet…with the resistance causing the tippet to curl?
Biot Midge …with that narrow elastic is there a problem pulling material off when the material gets to the sides of the spool?
How about methods used to position the bead and elastic for gluing and holding?
Do you add the shrink wrap after the glue has dried?
ducksterman,
I have not had any problems removing the wire from the spool. I can’t help with the construction of them. I bought the ones that I have from Skip Shorb at fly tying shows that I have been to. There is no shrink wrap on the ones that Skip made.
Steve
My Seaguar tippet spools have narrow elastic ribbon but the ends are glued and shrink wrapped together…with a short tag left…they have a hole punched through…heat punched …no bead.
Seems like it’s a simpler construction.
I’ve made a couple now with the beads and am struggling with how to hold the bead in place for gluing etc.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this…simply and rapidly???
I’ll ask again anyone have trouble with the curling I mentioned above…if I run the tippet out the hole on the Seaguar elastics there is enough resistance to curl the tippet.
Does one need to make these so they are fairly loose?
Maybe they aren’t all that great for tippet.
see comments above
I just use Cling Wrap for fly tying spools of thread, as well as on on other stuff.
okay so where did you purchase your’s from??
i’m not sure i see a problem with the tinsel curling up a little. so what if it does. its not like it is permanent. straighten it out between a couple of fingers.
if you were to make a tinsel body for a large streamer, you would tie in the tinsel behind the hook eye, wrap the tinsel to the bend and then back to the eye of the hook. in the past , i have let go of the tinsel before tying down and the whole body becomes unravelled. i merely unwrapped the tinsel and tried again.
Norm…I had tried …fingers…glue loves them…vise grips work…but tedious
I can’t imagine making 50 of them…
It’s tippet that is the problem…
Here’s one I dreamed up from the constant repair of my underground sprinkler system.
Cut a piece of 3/4" PE pipe to length.
Cut diagonally from top to bottom.
Poke a hole with your dubbing needle opposite your diagonal cut.
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here’s another idea.
plastic binding comb from your local big box office supply store
just cut off one segment and wrap around the spool of whatever unruly material
