Step 6
Use your hair stacker and compress the deer hair back to the tail area as hard as u can.U must have a compressed body.
Step 7
Repeat step 6 untill u reach the eye of the hook.Whip finish and tie off.Add head cement.
It should look like this.See below.
Step 8
Now comes your more difficult steps.Trim the hair using a blade.For me it's quite difficult to explain how the shape should look.A tip I can give that works for me is to always and always start to trim at the eye of the hook working backwards.
Follow the shape of the head and use ur imgination i.t.o how the head should look.Leave a few of the deer hair strands that u stacked first.This will form your 2nd skirt if I can call it that.It should have a fluent look i.t.o blending in with your previously tied in hackle.Also remember to carve enough of the hairs below the shank not to obscure the gape.
Here's a few pics of what I'm trying to explain.
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