Getting a lot of nice feathers washed, dried and bagged up today
3 more batch's washed and soaking
First two batch's Gallon zip bags all washed/dried and ready to go
Another batch to go in dryer
And a whole lot more to go!!!
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Getting a lot of nice feathers washed, dried and bagged up today
3 more batch's washed and soaking
First two batch's Gallon zip bags all washed/dried and ready to go
Another batch to go in dryer
And a whole lot more to go!!!
What kind of feathers you doing?
Duck flank feathers for doing jigs and flies
Enough to a bunch of jigs. In my opinion the best material for crappie and bluegill.
That’s a lot of future jigs
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Originally Posted by Fatman
Those will keep you in business for awhile :ThumbsUp
Do you have a certain cleaning and drying procedure for raw feathers ?
billygee
For the duck flank feathers I use plastic coffee cans and I sort the feathers by type and then put the feathers in with Dawn foaming dish soap (squirt and a 1/2 a couple of tablespoons of
20 mule team borax – it acts like a natural bug deterent, then luck warm water NEVER fill the can full of water just, about ½ way will do it you have to have expansion space for the soap bubbles!! LOL. Put the lid on and pressing down firmly on the lid shake the heck out of them, let them sit for and hour or two then shake them again and let sit again. Put a layer of paper towel on your counter and then Pour the feathers into a strainer and rinse completely.
Grab a handful and squeeze the water out and put on the paper towel – when done cover them with more paper towel and press down. Put the feathers in a pillow case and put a static sheet in with them and tie a know in the pillowcase and put them in on high heat for 5-6 mins then just fluff them on no heat until dry. Then pull them out and into zip lock bags, even then they don’t go in my bins until they do a quarantine period of 90 days. Not a problem I have many already done and even more that I’ve dyed different colors.
Make friends with duck hunters!!! Haven’t been able to hunt with my back and these guys get me the really nice big flank feathers when they pull them!! Let them know what you want and make them some jigs or give them painted jig heads or send them some beer money!! A little work and you’ve got a continuing supply of good materials. I was always taught to use the whole animal if you hunt them and this makes sure of it!!
Great info Thanks for sharing :ThumbsUp
Saved it for future reference
billygee
got a picture of a jig or 2 you made with them?
Here's some I did with ones that I dyed different colorsAttachment 333098Attachment 333097Attachment 333099Attachment 333100
Here's some I did with ones that I dyed different colors Attachment 333104Attachment 333105
Those are nice. Very good work. Lot of time and prep in those. :HandsClapping
Nice jigs
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Well I finished up my feather washing for this batch and ended up with 7 gallon bags of flank feathers and a quart bag each of Lemon barred wood duck and Lemon wood duck feathers. Attachment 333224 This is my feather bin for duck feathers - there are easily 80+ bags of natural feathers and many more of dyed feathers that I've done. Attachment 333225 The last 9 bags I just did are in the quarantine box for at least 90 days.
That is so cool. Thanks for sharing.
Your work pays off ! Nice jigs !