video - One Finger Whip Finish - just for fun ;-)

Fly Patterns
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duab70VkSjQ

Cheers,
Hans W

2

I got a headache watching that, but it didn’t last very long. :wink:

Got to learn to do that one of these days. Thanks for the video, Hans.

John

3

A andy little trick, its got me out of trouble many times.
Cheers,
A.

4

Hans,

Love that; however, months of bathroom remodeling have turned my fingers into 80 grit sandpaper. :cry:

Regards,
Scott

5

Scott, you might try rubbing your fingers with a Pumice stone - takes down the roughness.

6

That, as my 17-yr old daughter would say, was “pretty sick.”

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Hans,
Why are a series of half hitches called a whip finish? I learned to tie the whip finish by “full hand” rather than a series of half hitches… I often use a whip finisher tool now - or should I say a “series of half hitches tool”? LOL

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Byron ??

A series of half hitches are single turns of thread crossing over themselves, one after the other. A series of simple knots.

A whip finish is as shown in the video - a series of adjacent touching turns of thread, and a tag end which is drawn parallel along the shank underneath the full set of thread turns.

Cheers,
Hans W

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I meant tying half hitches back over the tying thread

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Byron,

You have to be clearer, as I still do not follow. In the 15 second clip there are four adjacent turns of thread towards the eye, and a tag end pulled tight under all four. Are you suggesting, or seeing, otherwise?

Cheers,
Hans W

11

Great technique. Spring and summer my fingers aren’t like sandpaper so I will have to give that a try after the cold/wet weather passes.

Thank Hans for sharing that.

12

This is clearly a whip finish.

I think anybody who suggests that a series of half hitches creates a whip finish or is similar to a whip finish is mistaken. I’ve definitely seen YouTubes in which the tyer makes this mistake.

13

Nicely done. Had to see it to believe it.

Beaver