Head cement

[Mike Connor]

"GuyT" > schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
> Question please:
> For basic tying of nymphs and dries (for trout), has anyone used Hard As
> Nails clear nail polish by Sally Hansen as a head cement and how has it
> performed as a head cement?
> Any input would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Guy
>

Yes, it is excellent.

TL
MC

[GuyT]

Question please:
For basic tying of nymphs and dries (for trout), has anyone used Hard As
Nails clear nail polish by Sally Hansen as a head cement and how has it
performed as a head cement?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Guy

[Stan Gula]

"GuyT" > wrote in message
...
> Question please:
> For basic tying of nymphs and dries (for trout), has anyone used Hard As
> Nails clear nail polish by Sally Hansen as a head cement and how has it
> performed as a head cement?
> Any input would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Guy

I've used the 'Hard as Nails' for several years. Works fine for me.

[Jim (Bear) Peterson]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:03:17 -0600, "GuyT" >
wrote:

>Question please:
>For basic tying of nymphs and dries (for trout), has anyone used Hard As
>Nails clear nail polish by Sally Hansen as a head cement and how has it
>performed as a head cement?
>Any input would be appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Guy


Hi Guy,
I've used it, and I've used several other brands of nail polish on
flies over the years,, I don't know why that brand is always pushed as
being good to the point of better than any of the others,, I've had
good results from almost all I've tried,, as long as I let them dry
completely before fishing them,,


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"Hard as Nails" may be the most popular US head cement.

\Lou T

[Willi]

GuyT wrote:
> Question please:
> For basic tying of nymphs and dries (for trout), has anyone used Hard As
> Nails clear nail polish by Sally Hansen as a head cement and how has it
> performed as a head cement?
> Any input would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Guy


Personally I seldom use "head" cement on a fly's head. I do use it for a
few other things.

Willi

[Scott Seidman]

"Stan Gula" > wrote in
:

> "GuyT" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Question please:
>> For basic tying of nymphs and dries (for trout), has anyone used Hard As
>> Nails clear nail polish by Sally Hansen as a head cement and how has it
>> performed as a head cement?
>> Any input would be appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Guy
>
> I've used the 'Hard as Nails' for several years. Works fine for me.
>
>

Works great for me, too. If you trim the brush in the bottle way back, you
can use that brush directly.

Scott

[DaveMohnsen]

"GuyT" > wrote in message
...
> Question please:
> For basic tying of nymphs and dries (for trout), has anyone used Hard As
> Nails clear nail polish by Sally Hansen as a head cement and how has it
> performed as a head cement?
> Any input would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Guy
>

Hi Guy,
I started tying fairly seriously back in the early 70's. I just bought some
Sally Hansen stuff a month or so ago. Haven't used it yet. But I went
through all kinds of stuff over the years. Made my own derivative of
cement, combining stuff that have should have killed me a long time ago,
bought stuff over the counter, and finally figured out I only needed a
couple things . . .something to soak into the thread . . .and that may be
all . . .or something to make a shiny front to the fly. I use a head cement
on about everything (unless I'm in a hurry). It may be only a pin drop at
the location of the end of a whip finish, or I may paint it with a high
gloss. ( the high gloss flies usually may start at a size 10 or larger)

Keeping this is mind, I don't usually use waxed threads. But, I believe
they have a better adhering ability than the nonwaxed threads. . .cause the
wax stuff kind of helps 'smushing' it together . . .if wrapped off tightly
enough. When I use waxed threads, I sometimes don't use anything other
than a whip finish.

But I can say, about 90% plus of my flies have a little dab of some cement.
BestWishes,
DaveMohnsen
Denver

[Jim (Bear) Peterson]

On 18 Jan 2004 22:25:02 GMT, (Lat705) wrote:

>"Hard as Nails" may be the most popular US head cement.
>
>\Lou T

Most likely that's due to that brand being recomended in several books
on flytying rather than it being better suited for flytying than any
other brand,, I have a few nymph patterns that call for applying
cement to the entire body, on those I've been using a nail polish I
picked up a a Sally's beuauty supply shop, it's clear with a very fine
prismatic dust supended in it, was trying a nymph treated with that
along with one with plain clear on droppers behind a foam bug,, the
fish seemed to like the one with the little sparkles better,, but then
it may have just been that dropper was in the right place and the
plain one wasn't,, I need to get out and do a bunch more testing,


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[Guy Thornberg]

Thanks to all for your input and responses!
I will rummage through the 100's of bottles of nail polish the women have in
their many boxes of beauty aids.....You never know what you might find that
will be of use at the bench.
Guy

"DaveMohnsen" > wrote in message
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>
> "GuyT" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Question please:
> > For basic tying of nymphs and dries (for trout), has anyone used Hard As
> > Nails clear nail polish by Sally Hansen as a head cement and how has it
> > performed as a head cement?
> > Any input would be appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Guy
> >
>
> Hi Guy,
> I started tying fairly seriously back in the early 70's. I just bought
some
> Sally Hansen stuff a month or so ago. Haven't used it yet. But I went
> through all kinds of stuff over the years. Made my own derivative of
> cement, combining stuff that have should have killed me a long time ago,
> bought stuff over the counter, and finally figured out I only needed a
> couple things . . .something to soak into the thread . . .and that may be
> all . . .or something to make a shiny front to the fly. I use a head
cement
> on about everything (unless I'm in a hurry). It may be only a pin drop at
> the location of the end of a whip finish, or I may paint it with a high
> gloss. ( the high gloss flies usually may start at a size 10 or larger)
>
> Keeping this is mind, I don't usually use waxed threads. But, I believe
> they have a better adhering ability than the nonwaxed threads. . .cause
the
> wax stuff kind of helps 'smushing' it together . . .if wrapped off tightly
> enough. When I use waxed threads, I sometimes don't use anything other
> than a whip finish.
>
> But I can say, about 90% plus of my flies have a little dab of some
cement.
> BestWishes,
> DaveMohnsen
> Denver
>
>
>
>

[George Cleveland]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:03:17 -0600, "GuyT" > wrote:

>Question please:
>For basic tying of nymphs and dries (for trout), has anyone used Hard As
>Nails clear nail polish by Sally Hansen as a head cement and how has it
>performed as a head cement?
>Any input would be appreciated.
>Thanks,
>Guy
>
>
>
Hard As Nails works very well. But it also has a lot of formaldehyde which
makes it impossible for me to use as I have a skin sensitivity to the
stuff. Like some of the others I seldom use head cement. In the last year
I've taken to using little daps of Zap a Gap on questionable areas of my
flies (parachute posts, calftail wings).

g.c.

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"Guy Thornberg" > wrote in message
...
>
> I will rummage through the 100's of bottles of nail polish the women
have...


And here I thought bygamy was against the law.

[Lat705]

I like the black nail polish for eyes on salt water flys and the glitter for
adding sparkle to sal****er flies.


Lou T