I’ve been having a hard time finding the colors that I want sometimes so I did some brainstorming and came up with the idea to color the materials using water proof felts, has anyone tried this or have any other suggestions?
I use Sharpie Felt pens to color or add stripes, dots etc. to my foam bodied flies. In fact I used a brown Sharpie to color my attempt at doing the FLOW. They come in a full range of colors and with the different tip width available almost any color pattern can be achieved.
Michael (Wooly) Woolum
State Certified Hunter Education Instructor
Hickory, MS
Troutstalker99
Waterproof markers are a staple on a lot of tying benches. The brands may vary from Sharpies to Pantones and others. They all seem to work pretty well.
One hint I picked up last weekend is to use Sally Hansens Hard as nails to blend the colors. This method would work best on hard bodied bugs, wing cases or shell backs as the Hard as Nails does dry pretty hard.
REE
[This message has been edited by NoahsBoyz (edited 16 February 2006).]
troutstalker99;
Prismacolor make some good pens with a wide and fine tip on the same pen. Cabela’s has them.
The graphics arts industry has been using permanant fet tip pens for years. Find a good drafting or graphic arts supply store and look for the brand names ‘Panatone’ ‘Art Design (AD)’ or ‘prismacolor’. The AD brand comes in over 200 colors, 18 seperate shades of grey for example. All of the colors you might ever need at about 2 bucks a pen.
In the UK pantone retail a full set of marker pens designed especially for fly tyers in olives, duns, browns etc. as well as flourescents.
Perfect for marking beetle backs, or touching up all imatitive patterns…