the wife and i were out and about today and we stop by hobby lobby and i ended up finding some chenille some like ice blue and yellow and i also pick up some diferent feathers to try they kinda looked like strands of peacock feather
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the wife and i were out and about today and we stop by hobby lobby and i ended up finding some chenille some like ice blue and yellow and i also pick up some diferent feathers to try they kinda looked like strands of peacock feather
Have seen some Peacock there, but I wouldn't buy much there for tying unless you look at it really well. I have not really looked at their chenille, but I don't expect it will match up well with like Danville chenille. Let us know if it works well though.
I have seen a lot of feathers at that store and didn't buy any. Now Peacock I didn't need so really didn't look good, but their marabou sucks or at least what I saw.
Peacock is good stuff and the fish like it. It's pretty fragile though and need to work it in special ways and reinforced probably like making Herl chenille.
They also sell sheets of foam material used in floating bluegill bugs. What is sold in tying stores for $3is half of what you get at hobby lobby for a buck. Different colors and thicknesses.
The chenille I've seen at Hobby Lobby has a wire core. That's not what you want for tying!
They have a carded chenille too, it will be hanging near the wired chanille. It's bigger than the others I use but has worked alright for some of my jigs. Only around six colors. The feathers, I have looked at but also have not used em, doesn't look real good. They do carry other things you may be able to use and I do like to walk around and look in their hobby section :)Quote:
Originally Posted by quivira kid
Skeet is right about the foam if you tie flies and I have some from fly tying Mfg. and from Wally World and the one from Wally World is a big thick stack of sheets and is fine.
Hobby shops have ALOT of stuf that IS good!
I get a bunch of different materials:
- some marabou - there are some with better quality but some will also loose their color when they get wet, it's hit/miss
- peacock herl - the quality is very close to what you can get from tying shops... it ALL breaks easy
- craft fur - look for the stuff with longer hair fibers
- rabbit skins - can get full hides in natural gray and white and cut them into strips or however you want
- poly yarn - i use it for making under base on some jigs and also can chop it up and mix colors to come up with good custom dubbing materials
- thread - you can get any color imaginable of thread & floss! some will not hold up to tight wrapping pressure but all holds together just fine with a little glue. ;)
- balsa wood blocks - cut and shape to make custom floats and cheaters any size you want.
i know theres more, my wife usually has to come track me down and say "are you ready yet???" some materials don't hold up as well as 'real' tying stuff, but at the price and local convience for me, i end up using whatever i can from hobby stores. I am also NOT a seller of lures which i would say makes a difference... i make mine for personal use so don't really care if something falls apart. :D
If you fellers haven't tried embroidery thread from Wally World , you should . It's strong , lays good. I think you will like it...........................Norm
our hobby lobby carries guinea feathers...all colors. and some awesome paint also
Our Hobby Lobby is 70 miles away. They don't have enough good stuff for me to drive all that way just to shot there and I for sure am not buying their chenille. For me the Internet and of course the phone and catalogs from the wholesale places are what I mostly use.
Foam I am sure is fine as is Walmart's. I don't use thread from any of them as I just don't care for it.
Rabbit, I am not cutting the skins and want colors, way more colors.
Craft fur and yarn I am sure is fine, but just don't use enough of it to make a trip to buy it from there. I have very little yarn.
It's funny, I used to sit in the car and wait on my wife when we would go to Hobby Lobby. Now she waits on me. LOL. I got a pack of the foam sheets there and they work good for bug flies.
Now just get some of them little cutters for cutting shapes in that foam. I got a bunch of them and it just makes it easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottV
Skip
Tell me more about the cutters Skip. The foam I picked up is in individual sheets that are big compared to the bundles you refer to. Too many goofy colors in those. Like the bluegill bugs and want to know more of the cutters to make life easier. Basic colors work for me, red, black, white, yellow, and need some green to finish it.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
There is a lot of different ones and you can get them one at a time if you want or maybe you just need 2 or 3 different ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by skeetbum
They are made by or that name is on the card in the package, River Road Creations, Inc. It's kind of crazy because for example I have one called Universal Bug Wind Cutter and there are 6 different sizes you can choose from. They have some soft kind of flat piece of stuff the you use as the back under what your cutting and press the top side to cut what ever your cutting into what ever shape.
I have a bug body cutter and they only offer 3 sizes of them, LOL! You can get some info and ideas of things to tie and a little on how to do it.
Here is their web site, but I warn you if you start buying these cutters you may end up like me with about 12-15 of them and want more. I have had mine for 3 years I ting and have not used them lately, but I can show a few pictures too. If you can't find them I know where I can get them for less than retail.
River Road Creations Home
Here are a few...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC00202.jpg
You may have seen this one...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...-6-2800004.jpg
Just for kicks...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC01756.jpg
Thanks for that info Skip. I will be getting some of those. I've just been cutting little peices and gluing them together, then trying to trim them.
http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/93730df5.jpg
http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/y...1/417e56d7.jpg
Just take your time and figure out how big they are or how small because they run the line of pretty large to really tiny once you fold one over to make a bug it can be little. However they have some bigger ones like the Chernobyl Ant?
thanks for the website skip.....cool stuff.
I can see lots of dollars to get those like I want. Have to save my nickels. Thanx Skip.
Yeah Skeet that is why I warned you. I remember when I started buying them and it was not long before I couldn't believe how much I was spending on this stuff. However it's so cool to have these tools for making the foam bugs and they are very nice.
Also like I said each one comes with it's own little rectangle shape white semi-soft stuff for you to cut against. This is because when using them you have to kind of change pressure points to make a clean cut. but they work just fine.
Not sure how many I have, but would suggest maybe any of you that want some of these should contact me first for sizing so you don't buy one that is not of the size you really want. I did that so know how easy it is to buy the wrong one.
I will be happy to help and if you guys can't find them at a reasonable price I can buy them wholesale at least.
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