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I think I want to buy a finisher but do not know which to get for tying jigs. What do yall think? Went fishing on the Tombigbee @ Coffeeville and kept 10 fish for a 116.5" inches of crappie. Caught some on jigs that I tied. I think I an hooked on tying now. You can see a pic on the Alabama State Post.
You need to look at this thread
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...ys-finish.html
If you really have to buy one get the Materelli not the Thompson, the Mat is much easier to use but handwhipping is even cheaper.
Fatman
I just hand finish,like Fatman said its "cheaper"
mikeb
I bought a whip finisher, but broke it in the 1st month I had it. :mad: It did teach me the motion of how the thread is actually wrapped for the whip finish tho and now I just do it by hand. Maybe not as acurate placing the thread as the tool but it works just fine.
I also hand finish. Lots quicker than the whip and you can still place
the knot where you want it.
I use a whip finisher on everything I tie but it is not as important with jigs as it can be with flies. I still whip finish my jigs but I sometimes I will do it by hand. If you get ones, just don;t get a cheapo one. II have used the same one for 12 years or more and it is still just as valuable as the day I got it.
I would say that when you look just look in the $8-15 range and make sure it at least looks like it is made well. I have one like the ones you find on Cabelas, they are Cabelas whip finishers with the spring loaded arm. Mine is Orvis but it was given to me. My next one will be one of the fixed ones just because it looks like you get better clearance for bigger stuff when you need it.
As for being quicker, maybe, but I can do 6-10 wraps in a blink of any eye with my whip finisher.
That might have been my problem. :rolleyes: I think mine costed $1.69! :D:o:D Oh well, it taught me what I couldn't quite figure out from just watching the videos on how to do it by hand. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by fish_4_all
I think that if you will be tying jigs for multiple species of fish, it will serve you well to learn the whip finsh by hand.Quote:
What do yall think?
Reason? Some materials (e.g. silicone skirt) may require a tie-in behind the jig head with the strands facing away from the hook bend. This is done to allow for a nicely-flared spread of the material. Sometimes this process requires very large finishing loops in order to allow longer strands to move through them easily.
This isn't a silicone-skirted jig, but it should give you a better idea of what I'm mentioning here.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../spdrsh004.jpg
Thanks for the advise yall
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ngcodHooks.jpg
These are flies for salt water I tied. All whip finished to get the tightest tie I could get and lock it in. I used upholstery thread on them and whip finished it twice putting a good 30 wraps each time.
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...l/000_1116.jpg
These are whip finished underneath again with upholstery thread. Not as many because I had rubber collars to use but they are on jig heads.
Granted, these are the extreme side of tying but still. I put 12-15 wraps on almost every jig and fly I tie so hand finishing would just slow me down. This is for "normal" size stuff though. Anything under a size 10 hook and you don't have room for anything more than 2-4 whips.
BTW, I tied these by putting the hook in the vise backwards so that the skirt part that was flaring in a way that was actually up out of the way and I didn't have to fight it. It was still a pain with my small little whip finisher but it worked just as well. I have made similar jigs and flies where I whip finished the whole thing just to save time. It locks the thread in solid when you really need a solid hold.
Learning to hand finish is a good thing but I have yet to find anything I can not finish with my whip finisher. Only material I do not like to whip finish is mono filament because it twists up way too much if I am putting an more than 3-5 wraps.
I'm a hand-whipper huh huh
It depends on what you are doing. Hand whipping is cheaper, easier most of the time, but not as neat. I can use a tool faster than by hand. It's just a matter of preference most of the time.
I also hand finish. Once you get the hang of it, you will like it too.