[Frank Rizo]

I have found that some colors are hard to match so I have gone to great lengths to get only the best. For the best soft feather look I use baby geese feathers. The trick is to catch the bird alive and dye the feathers first. I usually dip the bird three or four times in the dye solution. Only take the fethers you need and let that one go. If your doing a lot of tieing your going to need several baby geese.

By the way, My wife says we have the most colorful geese in the county.

For fur we shave the neighbors ####tsue when he goes down to Florida for the winter, most of it grows back before he get home. We tryed shaving the cat to but it bit the cord on the clippers so we used the whole cat. You can read about that in the hardbait forums watch for the title catfishing.

[Vodkaman]

I find that the fur from my neighbours cat makes perfect paint brushes, every bit as good as sable. And the claws are just the right shape and size for poking epoxy out of hook eyes, it wriggles quite a lot though, can be a problem.

[gtlegs]

I like to use guinnea (sp?) feathers, but I have never dyed a live one before.
-Trey

[nova]

I think he's joking Trey. If not we would have heard about on CNN,lol.

[KcDano]

Made me laugh good!

[philB]

Hi All

Ok if its best brushes you want I will let you into my secret which has been passed down in my family for generations.

To manufacture these brushes you will need some under flipper preen gland hairs from the rare Alaskan Bloa seal pup. Very rare and hard to get hold of. Here is how you go about getting hold of these, you will need to catch at least 6 seals as each one only has between 20 to 30 of the guard hairs, these can be identified by the slightly pink tips. Also you will only find them under one flipper, it just depends if the pup is left or right handed, oops sorry 'flippered'.

Cut a two foot diameter hole in the ice. Place frozen peas around the edge of the hole about an inch apart, this is your bait. Now sit and wait, this can be hard as it may be one to two weeks before he catches the scent of the peas. When the seal comes up for a pea kick him in the ice hole, this will stun him long enough for you to harvest those guard hairs.

When you have your hair make the brush

Hope this has inspired all who read it.

philB

[nova]

I like it Phil; good one.

www.novalures.com

[willie525]

uh huh, sure

[LedHed]

Frank
Har har – glad I’m not your neighbor!!

philB
Does the ice hole half to be exactly two foot in diameter???

[Vodkaman]

I'm looking for a live mo, the hair is supposed to be very soft and I would like to try it out for brushes.

I've tried ebay but no luck, can anyone help?