RE: Letort Hopper/Cricket
2010/06/06 14:56:11
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Cold- I'm using regular deer body hair and then Coastal for the smaller ones - 16's on down. I know what ya mean about the trimming thing. What helped me is to make sure the underfur is completely combed out and when I started using 14/0 thread and being careful with the tension when flaring the hair - there was much less likelyhood of the thread showing through the flared out ends of the head. And I use a thin new razor blade (shown on the pic) to do all the trimming - no scissors. And actually for these - I don't allow the hair to spin around the shank. Just hold it in place on top and cinch down using two different bunches of hair. The first to create the wing and the second to fill out the head.
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