My article “Horsehair Fly Line” was published today!
Several months ago, I blogged about my rediscovery of an old book that presented a different technique for making continuously tapered, knotless horse hair fly lines. I reproduced the technique and improved on it slightly. That was all covered in the original post.
Given the large response (believe it or not!) I had to that post, I decided to write an article for the Webzine Power Fibers covering the same topic with a lot more detail and full color photographs.
Power Fibers is published quarterly by Todd Talsma and the new edition (Issue 36) came out today. Power Fibers is available as an annual subscription on CD but Todd also makes the current issue freely available until the next issue is published. Todd gave me permission to place a copy of my article here: Horeshair_Fly_Lines_PowerFibers_Issue_36.
anonymous said:
Jul 29, 09 at 8:52 pm“I conducted a few experiments to understand
why the book suggested trimming the ends after
soaking the line overnight.”
My guess is that this is for the “or a taper”
suggestion for removing the “projecting hairs”.
They might well just burn right off in a flame
if done carefully, the rest of the soaked line
remaining unharmed. Perhaps worth a try.
EclecticGuy said:
Jul 29, 09 at 9:06 pmThat’s interesting, I’ll have to give it a try. Burning horsehair might stink to high heaven though!