Sylvaneous
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Ever see a YouTube tyer do something in the process and go..."nah..."
In the last day, I saw people use superglue on the starting wraps to tie down pheasant tail fibers and the core of a chenille/egg/body wrap.
Being a liberal progressive by nature, I'm fine with you doing whatever makes you happy as long as you don't interfere with other people. Also, I appreciate good intent.
However, I have learned at the feet of masters of the art. I will spare you the list so that I myself don't sound like a fan-boy or a Chad. I have taken their lesson that less is more, actions should have purpose.
Please, use multiple colors of dubbing, 2 different overlays and glue at every step. Spend 20 min on a Frenchie. Make it a master piece.
When a tyer's process goes on line, it is some kind of statement of standard, an element in the ether, some establishment of what it is to tie a fly. So it is with social media. Somebody said something once. Yes, it probably IS written somewhere. We all act as advocates for our opinion and our approach to each other on line.
What does it matter, supergluing a step that, in my 35 years of fly tying, has never been a problem? Nothing, sort of. Use mink dubbing and actual gold and silver tinsel. Spend every moment and the last penny. Or don't. Or make it work with less. Do what works. I studied karate for 4 years. I dated a Japanese post-doc during graduate school. I can't help but have sympathies for the, maybe not minimalism , but the material essentialism of that culture's aesthetic.
I betray this whenever I do my golden stonefly version of a Kauffman's Stonefly nymph and my other ties that I mostly base on what Dave Rothrock showed me. But for the LOVE OF PEAT (moss) , I don't superglue down any pheasant tail or anything else on a trout fly that I tie-in over the entire length of the hook shank. Ugh. Self-referential 'experts'.
What is said about the tyranny of small differences?
Syl
In the last day, I saw people use superglue on the starting wraps to tie down pheasant tail fibers and the core of a chenille/egg/body wrap.
Being a liberal progressive by nature, I'm fine with you doing whatever makes you happy as long as you don't interfere with other people. Also, I appreciate good intent.
However, I have learned at the feet of masters of the art. I will spare you the list so that I myself don't sound like a fan-boy or a Chad. I have taken their lesson that less is more, actions should have purpose.
Please, use multiple colors of dubbing, 2 different overlays and glue at every step. Spend 20 min on a Frenchie. Make it a master piece.
When a tyer's process goes on line, it is some kind of statement of standard, an element in the ether, some establishment of what it is to tie a fly. So it is with social media. Somebody said something once. Yes, it probably IS written somewhere. We all act as advocates for our opinion and our approach to each other on line.
What does it matter, supergluing a step that, in my 35 years of fly tying, has never been a problem? Nothing, sort of. Use mink dubbing and actual gold and silver tinsel. Spend every moment and the last penny. Or don't. Or make it work with less. Do what works. I studied karate for 4 years. I dated a Japanese post-doc during graduate school. I can't help but have sympathies for the, maybe not minimalism , but the material essentialism of that culture's aesthetic.
I betray this whenever I do my golden stonefly version of a Kauffman's Stonefly nymph and my other ties that I mostly base on what Dave Rothrock showed me. But for the LOVE OF PEAT (moss) , I don't superglue down any pheasant tail or anything else on a trout fly that I tie-in over the entire length of the hook shank. Ugh. Self-referential 'experts'.
What is said about the tyranny of small differences?
Syl
