Scott Seidman wrote:
JR wrote:

I'll buy beads, hooks, thread, synthetics, etc. on line, but not fur or
feathers.

If everyone thought that way, you wouldn't have brick and mortar stores to
wade through your fur and feathers

That would be true had I said "I buy". I said I will (i.e., would), not
that I always do. In practice, if the local shops happen to have the
size/model hook (or the color of thread, Krystal Flash, chenille) I'm
looking for, I'll buy it there. I often call around the local shops
(there are five in my town, six more within a 50 mile radius) to find what
I'm looking for -- if no one has it, I'll call Kaufmann's in Portland.

I've tried several times to have the two shops I most want to support
order stuff for me: with boots, waders, rods, etc., it works out fine,
but little odds and ends for tying seem to fall through the cracks in
their procurement process....

JR