Red Quill Spider

[Hans Weilenmann]

Body does seem a little long, at first glance, but look again and the tapered section with the slight downward cast of the bend seem to look right.

With a tail I would stop a little shorter on the straight, but without tail on this style hook I like just a hint of a curve. You can go back and view some earlier ones, see the pattern

Never having dyed stripped herl, nor had any really good verigated stuff in the first place........ does the dye only take to the lighter coloured section of the quill, or is the dark section also now red?

The marked quills are found in the eye portion of the feather. The herl lower down will have just dark quill.

The lighter edge of the quill takes dye quite well.

Cheers,
Hans W

[Stendalen]

Have not seen quill dyed red before, did you do that yourself? I would imagine it is difficult to get this "deep" red colour.

Really nice.

Martin

[Mataura mayfly]

Hans, thanks for the answers. I was aware of where the verigated herl comes from, just I get most all my herl from the one source and that particular bird did not have nice verigation of the eye stems........ have not checked on his replacements feathers though.........

[Hans Weilenmann]

Have not seen quill dyed red before, did you do that yourself? I would imagine it is difficult to get this "deep" red colour.

Really nice.

Martin,

The red quills were a present from a friend. I asked for you - Dylon warmwater dye was used, it comes in small tubs with dry powder. Here is a visual.



The dye used was Scarlet (#32)

Cheers,
Hans W

[Stendalen]

Thank you very much, gonna try that out for sure!

/Martin