Quote Originally Posted by redear View Post
You do very good work! another trick is to trim the hair just before finishing the jig, just behind the head and then touch a tiny bit of high quality super glue to the hair in that spot with your bodkin and then finish up your thread wraps, it wont look any better than what you have there but the hair will never pull out, ya gotta be carefull with the thin super glue though as it can soak up under the thread and back into the wing of the jig, I use thin zap glue in tiny amounts. I trim the hair at the back of the head with a single edge razor blade, they are about 1.50 for a pack of 5. I was referring to crappie bucktails when I said they needed to be thinner, but am not sure what a 10 pound pink salmon would prefer.
Thats probably safer than what I use, got it from the fly tiers and they use double edge blades especially when they trim spinning deer hair bugs. Just know they think the double edge blads are sharper, but I also always have some small cuts after I tie some hair jigs, LOL! I do also sometimes use a utility single edge blade is one of the holders that look like a pen kind of. All I know for sure is that kind of hair sure dulls stuff fast and why you want special scissors just for the hair and other for everything else. Don't want to ruin your good ones on deer hair!