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Old December 19th, 2005, 08:57 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.tying
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Default Fabric Cement and the Streaker Variant


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Yes, you're absolutely right. coloring is a problem.
Open-cell mattress foam is easy to color, with markers
and/or Rit dye.

But I have had *no luck at all* trying to color closed
cell foams. I've tried markers, but the colors just
wash off after a few casts. Rit dye doesn't work
at all.

The real solution would be for the distributors to
finally get smart and distribute the right stuff.
Lightweight closed cell foam *is* available,
in multiple colors, but only in wholesale quantities.

It's a problem I wish would get solved.
It's mind boggling to me, that I bought a bunch of
this stuff 15 years ago........and you STILL can't buy it
retail. I've sent samples to several distributors.
But never even got a response.


You can spray paint it, with an airbrush and some model paints. This does
not wash off. I use this for some poppers. Have not yet used it for flies,
but no reason why it should not work for them as well.

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