There are a few varieties of flex cement, when they are drie, they allow you to bend and work the wing case...
Sally Hansens dries hard, it should not be used for wign cases...
Oooooh......now I'm with you. In that case try Loon's Head Cement. It's water soluble and after it's dry it's water insoluble. I usually treat a piece of feather before I use it for a wing case. Its flexable, so it allows you pre-treat a feather....because you can ty it in without going brittle or crack or what ever.
Dont try and put the stuff on the finished fly. The other materials wil just suck it up and greate a very hard fly.
There are a few varieties of flex cement, when they are drie, they allow you to bend and work the wing case...
Sally Hansens dries hard, it should not be used for wign cases...
Mike McKeown
You're either fishing or waiting...
Yes, Shaun, can see you're an 'old campaigner' like myself - much the same's happened to me - at least twice on Flexament - you'd think I'd learn...
The more you know, the less you need (Aboriginal Australian proverb)
Only dead fish swim with the stream (Malcolm Muggeridge)
OK. Thanks for all the help guys. I think I will just buy Fex cement and get it over with.
Eish ! Yeah, I suppose it comes with the territory when tying flies late at night and forgetting stuff like that. I've been very good with my new bottle though, and never leave it open for long, as it does tend to get more viscious over time from standing open for periods of time, although I see you can get a special thinners for Flexement too, which is cool.
Just a lesson for you guys, never try to use normal thinners or acetone to thin down Flexement, it turns into porridge.
Behold the fisherman. he riseth early in the morning and disturbeth the whole household. mighty are his preperations. he goes forth full of hope and when the day is ended, he returneth smelling of strong drink and the truth is not with him. originator unknown.
my stuff.... http://www.flytalk.co.za/forum/album.php?u=824[/SIZE]
Without sounding facetious it's called Dave's Flexament Thinner. You're right, I think Frontier have some, also Flyfishers Unlimited - or they did some while back.
It does the job!
The more you know, the less you need (Aboriginal Australian proverb)
Only dead fish swim with the stream (Malcolm Muggeridge)
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