Well tried my first hackle wrapping exercise, and it came out uneven. Still it is interesting. I think I need to watch a few more videos to understand the intricacies in manipulating feathers.

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I appreciated the idea of using Mare-A-Boo for my collars. I bet that is wild.


Here are a few tamer versions. This is more what I had envisioned when I selected my hackle.

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Still I am making the tails too long. I wet the marabou and then gauge the length, a few loosies and trim and wind down. Not sure why I am doing that.

The grizzly barred hackle sure looks cool running down the sides. To my eye it mimics a minnow. I imagine a man could simply use a magic marker and scribe slashes onto a material and skip the feather, but the feather would still look better.

I need to look at getting more materials. I see now how things go with this hobby. I almost stopped to collect the tail off a roadkill squirrel yesterday. Sad I know. Maybe I will get a squirrel tail today. Wonder what Crow feathers look like when lashed to steel. Hair of hog. Her Chihuahua is starting to get nervous and is avoiding me.