Tung Bead Buying Pool

[jdaddy]

This site has great prices on tung bead heads.

Was wondering if some folks would like to get together to buy bulk and divide them up. Have 3 people at this point (maybe 2 more?). Let me know if you are interested and what size/color you would be in for. I am most interested in med and large black and gold.

 

[jayL]

I am interested, but only in the mediums. Well... define "medium".

What kind of cost were you thinking?

 

[gentleshepherd]

I don't see a link to the site?

 

[jdaddy]

Ya, I kept it kind of generic to see what kind of interests are out there.

http://www.rosamontefishing.com/servlet/the-Tungsten-Fly-Tying-Beads/Categories

I am down for pretty much any of the black nickel and gold.

 

[jayL]

I will go home and look at my supply. I'm not sure that I actually need any on second thought. I'll PM you if I need some.

 

[harry]

You might take a look here, they are running a special right now.

http://flyfisharkansas.com/fly-shop

 

[troutslammer]

what are the sink rates ?

 

[jdaddy]

Harry,

Ya I received a unsolicited, but not unwanted email from the owner of that site. He extended a pretty good offer for a group buy. Will try to get info together on it. Anyone interested please let me know.

 

[midnightangler]

be careful buying bulk beads without seeing them. (esp. tungsten since it is $$$). the good beads have a different size hole on each end - some of the cheaper bulk beads just have a big hole bore straight through, and those will go over the eye of the hook and fall off. i wouldn't really recommend buying bulk beads from a company you haven't dealt with before. this is especially true if you want to buy beads for smaller hook sizes.

 

[jdaddy]

be careful buying bulk beads without seeing them. (esp. tungsten since it is $$$). the good beads have a different size hole on each end - some of the cheaper bulk beads just have a big hole bore straight through, and those will go over the eye of the hook and fall off. i wouldn't really recommend buying bulk beads from a company you haven't dealt with before. this is especially true if you want to buy beads for smaller hook sizes.

I can vouch for the first company I linked as they have great products, don't know anything about the second. I can tell you that if I received tung bead heads from a fly vendor that were straight bored there would be a serious problem. I know that cheap beads are straight bored for crafts and stuff, but why would tung beads be straight bored?

 

[troutslammer]

the cheaper beads have "some " tungsten in them but not as much as other , the sink rate of the beads is very important , if they can't tell you the sink rate i would be leary

 

[njk3395]

If i get some specs and assurance of good quality i might be interested.

 

[midnightangler]

"why would tung beads be straight bored?"

probably because someone was lazy or didn't know what they were doing. just be careful of prices that seem "too low" as I have seen some straight bored tungsten beads on the web.

 

[troutslammer]

some are notch cut for streamer heads too