lesa
Garden Master
Hoodat, I would love to send you some neck feathers for your fly tying! Would you want some? I always feel so bad throwing away feathers, and since we skin and don't scald, the feathers look perfect...
If you skin learn to preserve the hackle. The hackles still on the skin are scarce. There is a scarcity of good feathers in the trade. Factory farming produces really lousy feathers, weak and filthy. Years ago I set up a deal between the Negritos in the Phillipines and a fly tying house. You might try sending a letter off to some of them. There's a market out there for them.lesa said:Hoodat, I would love to send you some neck feathers for your fly tying! Would you want some? I always feel so bad throwing away feathers, and since we skin and don't scald, the feathers look perfect...
I'd like a hat made of those feathers!! They are so pretty. So far they have not lost any of those.hoodat said:Those neck hackles made me want to get out my fly tying kit and tie up some trout flies. :/