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Willi · December 19th, 2005, 07:45 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.tying

wrote:
ah. I forgot to try to answer your original question.
You posted a link to a photo, of some foam.
If that's a (floating) closed-cell foam it looks
like a dense foam (too relatively heavy for the best dry flies).
I say that because the bubbles are big.
Big bubbles in the foam means more space between
the bubbles, where those spaces get filled by resin.
And the resin in the heavy part. The best floating
closed-cell foam has millions of tiny bubbles.
Bird shot in mason jar is heavier than buck shot
in a mason jar, because (in that case) the spaces
are the light part. But with foam it's the opposite:
the spaces between the spheres are the heavy part.

I use it for floating patterns. It may not be as good as what you use
but it is MUCH better and lighter than the craft foam they sell for fly
tying. If I could find it in appropriate colors, I'd be happy.
Functionally I find it excellent. Any suggestion for coloring it?
Permanent markers don't work well.

Willi