Dyeing feathers..

"DaveMohnsen" wrote in message
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Hi Danl,
Just gave you a long reply and my computer decided to take some time off .
.
. must be a union thing.
Short response now. In your part of the world, Kaufmanns Streamborn has
Veniard dyes. They are in Oregon and Washington State. Phone is (800)
442-4359 in one of my older catalogs.
AK Best's book is a good start as JackS indicated.
I googled the pattern, a minute or so, but didn't get a pic . . . just
lazy.
If you can give me a location of a pic, I may get you kinda close to a
color. I've used about 5 different dyes for olive. (tuff color when you
are trying to match) Need to see the pattern. Heck I use at least a half
dozen different colored olive patterns just here, depending on my
wandering.
BestWishes,
DaveMohnsen
Denver
(email me with a pic, or location of one)

Thanks to all for the responses. Good stuff as usual. I have a bag-o-mallard
flank feathers and will experiment on them as soon as SWMBO is out of the
house for a suitably long period of time to allow for a reasonable kitchen
repair effort, post dyeing. There might be some dying upon her return, but
Gawd hates a coward. Onward we go!

Dave, as best as I can tell a Loeberg is a Hornberg, modified (by someone
named "Loe", I suppose) slightly as follows,

Add a backswept single "antenna" of about a size 22 grizzly hackle over the
top, extending the length of the fly.
All the ones I've seen (both of them) had the mallard flank body feathers
dyed a medium olive.
Underbody of tinsel only, no hair or dubbing.
Cheeks are of mylar, not jungle cock or starling or ????

This is a popular fly in the eastern Sierras and I'm going to tie a few to
try in other locales. Western Nawth Cackalack, for one. I'll try to scan one
and post to ABPF.

Danl