A few wee flees with Guinea Fowl

[garyj]

I just discovered yesterday a close neighbour goes fly fishing and once tied his own flies, he very generously handed in a few materials, included were some lovely dyed Guinea Fowl feathers, so I had a wee play today.

These are on 12's and 14's:

[fortbhoy]

like the third one gary the photos are amazing up there with scratches and wingmans

[dabhoy]

Those are sweet Gary
I was always put of guinea fowl due to it being used as a sub for blue jay and applied to densely.
I notice that you like to rib your flies anti clockwise is there a reason for this?

[bigtel]

works of art

what camera do you use,one day i will be brave enough to put picture up of somthing tied by me.
just ordered me whip finish tool so am all ready to begin

terry

[fortbhoy]

sorry ment the fourth one

[garyj]

Originally Posted by dabhoy

Those are sweet Gary
I was always put of guinea fowl due to it being used as a sub for blue jay and applied to densely.
I notice that you like to rib your flies anti clockwise is there a reason for this?

Normally the ribbing would be clockwise, but as the body is 3 strands of dyed pheasant, tied in the direction of the thread (clockwise), the ribbing is tied in the opposite direction to secure it.

Originally Posted by bigtel

works of art

what camera do you use,one day i will be brave enough to put picture up of something tied by me.
just ordered me whip finish tool so am all ready to begin

terry

It's a Nikon D3 Terry with a wee lighting set up; thanks for the comments but I find a sharp image shows up my errors

[fortbhoy]

bloody hell gary, i just googled nikon d3 and the cheapest one i could find was about £1500 i think i will stick with my sony cybershot

[savage take]

the top one for me Gary.

[garyj]

It must be well used at that price Stevie

[dabhoy]

Originally Posted by garyj

Normally the ribbing would be clockwise, but as the body is 3 strands of dyed pheasant, tied in the direction of the thread (clockwise), the ribbing is tied in the opposite direction to secure it

I thought that would be the case
I however do it the opposite way