Question on thread

I have a question on fly tying threads. While watching a fly tying
demonstration, the tier twisted his bobbin until his thread unraveled so he
could make his midge thread body smooth. What kind of thread will unravel
when you spin your bobbin? I'm trying to tie a black size 16 to 20 midge.
When I search through catalogs there are just too many to choose from. Any
help would be appreciated.

Joe Murphy wrote:
I have a question on fly tying threads. While watching a fly tying
demonstration, the tier twisted his bobbin until his thread unraveled so he
could make his midge thread body smooth. What kind of thread will unravel
when you spin your bobbin? I'm trying to tie a black size 16 to 20 midge.
When I search through catalogs there are just too many to choose from. Any
help would be appreciated.



The Wapsi and Gudebrod and Danville threads all behave this way. About
the only one that really doesn't is Unithread because its a bonded
thread, that is, it has a adhesive that holds it together, but you can
even make it do it by spinning it counter clockwise (looking down as it
hangs in a bobbin) quit a bit and then and then stroking it with the
shaft of your bodkin.

Mike

Mike McGuire wrote:

but you can
even make it do it by spinning it counter clockwise (looking down as it
hangs in a bobbin) quit a bit and then and then stroking it with the
shaft of your bodkin.

Sounds good to me. :-)

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On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:45:23 GMT, Mike McGuire wrote:

Joe Murphy wrote:
I have a question on fly tying threads. While watching a fly tying
demonstration, the tier twisted his bobbin until his thread unraveled so he
could make his midge thread body smooth. What kind of thread will unravel
when you spin your bobbin? I'm trying to tie a black size 16 to 20 midge.
When I search through catalogs there are just too many to choose from. Any
help would be appreciated.



The Wapsi and Gudebrod and Danville threads all behave this way. About
the only one that really doesn't is Unithread because its a bonded
thread, that is, it has a adhesive that holds it together, but you can
even make it do it by spinning it counter clockwise (looking down as it
hangs in a bobbin) quit a bit and then and then stroking it with the
shaft of your bodkin.

Mike

I pretty much use Unithread exclusively, and it will untwist and lay flat just
fine. In fact I was just a few minutes ago tying up some bh flashbacks pt
nymphs and laying brown Uni down nicely flat...

/daytripper (no adhesive detected here)

Thanks guys the info is appreciated.


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On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:45:23 GMT, Mike McGuire
wrote:

Joe Murphy wrote:
I have a question on fly tying threads. While watching a fly tying
demonstration, the tier twisted his bobbin until his thread unraveled so
he
could make his midge thread body smooth. What kind of thread will
unravel
when you spin your bobbin? I'm trying to tie a black size 16 to 20
midge.
When I search through catalogs there are just too many to choose from.
Any
help would be appreciated.



The Wapsi and Gudebrod and Danville threads all behave this way. About
the only one that really doesn't is Unithread because its a bonded
thread, that is, it has a adhesive that holds it together, but you can
even make it do it by spinning it counter clockwise (looking down as it
hangs in a bobbin) quit a bit and then and then stroking it with the
shaft of your bodkin.

Mike

I pretty much use Unithread exclusively, and it will untwist and lay flat
just
fine. In fact I was just a few minutes ago tying up some bh flashbacks pt
nymphs and laying brown Uni down nicely flat...

/daytripper (no adhesive detected here)