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Great info, Mega Thx !

My daughter gave me all of her uv fingernail polish and a UV light you stick your hand under to set the UV polish, she wasn't using them anymore. So I now have UV resin of assorted colors with some having glitter etc... I usually use them for hot spots on my flys but I know they would have many other uses.

I make flexament. Just mix some Shoo Goo and a solvent. I use Xylene.

Thanks for sharing this video. I always learn learn a great deal from you. You have helped me be a better fly tier.🎉 👍🤠✌️🙏🇺🇸

Thanks for all your videos, I always learn something new.

🎉🎉🎉GREAT EDUCATIONAL CHANNEL,,, THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION 🎉🎉

I’m glad you talked about sealing the threads on glue containers. It’s really important for health. Not only does it save glue and money, it also prevents evaporation of sometimes toxic fumes into your house.I use some old, not-so tacky dubbing wax instead Chapstick, but it does the same thing. I expect beeswax would work equally well. Dave’s Flexament has been my primary cement for 40 years for in-progress stages and for fly heads where appearance or bulk aren’t needed. Like you, I prefer it well thinned. I buy 3 bottles of thinner for 1 bottle of cement, because the mix evaporates a tiny bit each time you use the glue. To avoid having to pour the thinner from the thinner bottle to the working glue bottle, I keep the thinner in a small bottle with an eye dropper. That avoids large spills (horrible & smelly), and allows precise addition of thinner.

Thinking about floating a 275 gallon container in my pond for breeding sanctuary

Great tips! Thanks for sharing.

I appreciate all your hints and tips! THANK YOU!

Oh yes brother, keep posting and preaching these tips. Heat up the botkin to make the hole, and take your wife's crocheting hook to pull the legs through it. I'm using a .410 brass cleaning brush as my dubbing brush too. And I love the shirt with Sasquatch with his rock and roll fingers high. Yes, I'm that old. Rock on brother.

The latch hook is good for making knotted hopper legs out of pheasant tail feathers. Good video, Thank you!

Another great, money saving video. I have kept gun cleaning brushes on my bench forever, both brass and nylon robbed from my cleaning kits before they could be used for those "redneck" purposes, LOL. Made handles from 1/2" dowels, and they even look good with a lin-speed gunstock finish on them. Making your own tools is all part of the fun, as well as saving $$$. I make many of my own luthiery tools also, not only to save money buying from stwmac, but to have custom equipment that is designed for purpose and often works better than store bought. Will look for the hair clips next time I go to town, my fingers are less than efficient now that I am officially old. ;-) Sort of crippled up after too many "encounters" back in the day. Like you, I am retired LE. Thank you for your service to your community. Be well. And catch the big ones!

I don't know if this was originally your idea, but if so, you are a genius. Thank you for sharing,

You're pretty handy to have around LOL. I know the other way with beads and elastic strap for sewing but I think this will be much stronger.

GREAT idea!!! Now I know what I will be doing the next rainy day, THANKS

Great idea! If tippet n bobbins spools are same you could mass produce the parts and cut down on prep time. Then make them as you get additional new items. Enjoy your channel. God Bless.

I saw some really fat yarn like that at a hobby store. I was thinking it would be good just tied right to the hook eye on a football head jig. Might look good bottom bouncing. I was thinking something stinky like garlic oil or Anise oil or Herring oil. Put a little in a zip top bag with some yarn worms and massage it around to lightly coat them.

Really cool DIY! I don't tie or fly fish, but I like this type of out of the box lure/bait making that's cheap and easy. But something I really like about this is no plastic. The irony of guys using soft plastics, filling lakes and rivers with garbage that's killing fish and wasting them, is aggravating. I'm no hippie, but millions of pounds of lost plastics polluting the waters is nuts. And they are forever. Bio plastics only break down into smaller pieces that are even worse. So something like this that is durable and way less likely to break-off is much better and MUCH cheaper!

This is the most well explained and clear video on this fix that I have seen yet. Thank you sir.

One of your best tips! Thank you.

The newest wing material that I have heard of was when a guy did a demonstration making a cicada, and he used charcoal grey landscaping fabric for the wings. A regular roll would last a lifetime.

What a great tip. Thank you!

Thanks for the video man. If, in a pinch, you need bees wax, I've found that a tube of Burt's Bees lip balm, found at any drug store or grocery store check out line, works great. It's not as good as a chunk of bees wax, but if'n you are in a pinch, lip balm works.

I appreciate you brother , best part of your channel is how humbly you share knowledge

Got my first cheapo fly tying kit as a kid in 1969. Came with a lump of... you guessed it, beeeswax. Worked then, still works today.

Yes! Thank you for sharing this. After seeing the first video, i immediately looked for the egg yarn because it's hard to find around here right now. I will check out that Hobby Lobby multicolored bundle.

Thank you for sharing this. I'm vice president of a fly fishing organization and 95% of our members are older gentlemen who constantly share alternative materials or give ideas of random supplies and what they can be used for. I always enjoy learning about these. I'll check out your other videos in this series.

That's a great idea

Thanks. I have the same bobkin and love this idea.

Like all the ideas 😊

Just found your channel today. Subscribed and loving these money savers. Just getting into fly tying so the more I can save the less my mistakes are going to cost me lol. Appreciate the information your providing. Looking forward to getting home and checking out the website.

Have you ever had occasions where the super glue has a lower shelf life because water vapor in the air causes it go off and this effect is cumulative, resulting in a shorter usable life for a bottle of glue? This would be more noticable in summer where humidity is generally higher. Would storing glue in the refrigerator between used help this?

@2:27 man's never had butterflied Midwestern lake perch

Whats best minnows to raise to sell for $ ? Flat head or red minnows?

Curious if you’ve found that you need any specific uv light to cure the hobby store resin.

best series ever, thank you sir

Always wondered if you could paint those with fabric paint, And will it take on the color? Like rit dye or something similar.

Once again you have a great lesson.👍🤠✌️🙏🇺🇸

I’ve actually tied some q-tip minnows with the bigger chenille and work awsome! Thanks for the video!

Thank you! I use these chenilles as well but I’ve been struggling to find the smaller ones that you had found in the lace section. Do you remember which store you found them in?

I've had a thread zapper for well over 10 years now, brilliant little tool for fly tying 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Posting to this video to catch your attention sir. Have you ever tied with upholstery thread? I have found it to be extremely strong when repairing kid and dog toys. Thank you for your videos!

Thank you so much for sharing!

I make much use of this inexpensive tool.

Good tips !

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Pretty nifty tool. Thanks for sharing. God bless.

That's the same material I told you about before but mine was a mirror cover made by Bell.