Thread: Made a few for a guy

Nice ties

Nice skip. What color blue is that on you heads, second pic.

Originally Posted by lowe175

Nice skip. What color blue is that on you heads, second pic.

Thanks guys! The 2nd one is not Blue, but Candy Purple on the head and Purple Crystal in the chenille.

Skip

Very nice Skip.I consider one of the fore fathers of jig tying.

These are great.
Do all use the V cut in some way?
How many hackle tips per jig?
Thanks,
Rookie

Have to remember I have a ton of V's and I use to put just 2 V's and one tip, but started using 3 V's and just like it a little better and think that stuff all moves in the water. I also have used Salt Water Neck hackle for at least 9 years so have had a lot of long feathers. I cut some this week that I bet each one gave me 6 or 7 V's so lots left over to stash. I keep every color in a Qt. ziplock and I keep all the V's in with the feathers I am working with in that bag. I also keep a sandwich ziplock with the part of the feather after the V's are cut off. I don't mind leaving a little V type stuff on that end. That end can also make a tail of you want! So I save them too. I would bet most of the Slab Daddy jigs I have seen were just that left over piece of the feather.

also, no not everyone uses the tip thing and some just use 2 tips, this was just something I came up with for me to tie like I wanted to tie. Not that I invented that, just figured it out on my own to tie a tail like I do. I like it better and didn't like the 2 tip way. I am just really piticular about what my tying looks like and how it holds up.

Skip

Skip, I know you have discussed this before, but how do you get the tips to always point down , giving that clean look? They seem to want to roll on me when I start wrapping my hackles. I don't like them curved to the sides.

I have done so many they just come out close usually, but I alwayse make sure half way through my wraps. I hold it a little to my side to start, then I start wraps at the head and stop at my stopping point, this is where I make it right. However every once in a while at that point when I first see how it's doing it may be too much out of line for me and if it is i will take warps off and start over! At that stopping point you can grab the stem and thread with some forceps and turn it a little either direction. The pinch the heck out of the wraps and stem so when you start back to the head it stays put.

i know that if I didn't care I could tie a lot more jigs per hour, but I will not tolerate my jig looking like what some would if I just went for speed. Each is special in my eyes and even though I always see warts on jigs I tie, it's just because I tied it and no one else will usually notice anything. I suppose that I am a bit on the perfectionist side of doing things like this, LOL!

Skip