On Jan 15, 7:24 pm, Conan The Librarian wrote:
Howdy,

I was finishing up my flies for the GFS, and got to playing around
tinting some dental floss to wrap as a mayfly body. I remembered
reading about it somewhere in the distant past (here?), but couldn't
recall the particulars. (I'm pretty sure Mike C. mentioned it somewhere
in one of his discussions of tying tricks.)

It makes a nice segmented body, but I haven't had a chance to test
any flies made with it. I tinted it using waterproof markers, but might
want to play around with coffee or tea for darker colors. I used waxed
because that's what I had.

So has anyone here played around with it? Did you use waxed or
unwaxed and why? What did you use to color it? (Arabica? Cold drip?
Decaf?)

:-)

Chuck Vance

If you want to use this to colour with markers etc, then use unwaxed,
as it will not take the colour properly otherwise. The same applies to
dyeing it. I have used it a lot in the past for forming under-bodies
on some flies, but I don´t use it much any more now.

How you manipulate it is important. Keep it flat for "forming" shapes,
and twist it tight for segmentation etc.

TL
MC