Painting Eyes!
Nick DelleDonne
Just a tip for those of you who like to paint eyes on Lead eyes, and
heads on streamer flies; do you know the best tool I have found to paint
the iris and pupils; no not a wooden dowl or a nail!
Try a half hitch tool!
Holds just enough paint to make 2-4 eyes and does a really NEAT job!
To this date I have not heard of anyone using this method. Let me know
what you think!
Nick DelleDonne
"The Evening Rise" Fly Fishing and Outdoors
Intercourse, PA
even...@redrose.net
Jon Porter
Nick DelleDonne (even...@redrose.net) wrote:
: Just a tip for those of you who like to paint eyes on Lead eyes, and
: the iris and pupils; no not a wooden dowl or a nail!
: Try a half hitch tool!
: Holds just enough paint to make 2-4 eyes and does a really NEAT job!
: To this date I have not heard of anyone using this method. Let me know
: what you think!
: Nick DelleDonne
I'll stick with the "old" way. I don't like cleaning paint offa my half
hitch tools.
Jon Porter
T-Bone
Nick DelleDonne wrote:
>
> Just a tip for those of you who like to paint eyes on Lead eyes, and
> heads on streamer flies; do you know the best tool I have found to paint
> the iris and pupils; no not a wooden dowl or a nail!
>
> Try a half hitch tool!
> Holds just enough paint to make 2-4 eyes and does a really NEAT job!
> To this date I have not heard of anyone using this method. Let me know
> what you think!
>
> Nick DelleDonne
I dunked 4 dozen in yellow laquer yesterday...used tweezers and
then rolled them on wax paper, then red dots with an 8p finishing
nail head.
Was a pain in the ass...but they look cool.
TimW
ljm...@ibm.net
> > Try a half hitch tool!
> > Holds just enough paint to make 2-4 eyes and does a really NEAT job!
> > To this date I have not heard of anyone using this method. Let me know
> > what you think!
> >
> > Nick DelleDonne
>
> I dunked 4 dozen in yellow laquer yesterday...used tweezers and
> then rolled them on wax paper, then red dots with an 8p finishing
> nail head.
>
> Was a pain in the ass...but they look cool.
>
> TimW
Poisonally, I thank TBone jest like da smell o dat lacquer!!!!!
Okay, a couple of suggestions.....
Stick the eyes into an old pocket comb and use a binder clip attached to the
comb to stand it up....paint the base color then come back aftyer it's dry and
do the pupils.
For those that are "hair challenged" and don't have a comb around (bitter
remindr of days past), try a piece of corrugated cardboard- cut a slot in
every other corrugation, about 1/2 inch long and push eyes down into the
slots- you can even spray the base coat on if you're lazy....but they might
stick!
Larry #:)#
T-Bone
ljm...@ibm.net wrote:
>
> > > Try a half hitch tool!
> > > Holds just enough paint to make 2-4 eyes and does a really NEAT job!
> > > To this date I have not heard of anyone using this method. Let me know
> > > what you think!
> > >
> > > Nick DelleDonne
>
> >
> > I dunked 4 dozen in yellow laquer yesterday...used tweezers and
> > then rolled them on wax paper, then red dots with an 8p finishing
> > nail head.
> >
> > Was a pain in the ass...but they look cool.
> >
> > TimW
>
> Poisonally, I thank TBone jest like da smell o dat lacquer!!!!!
what gives you that idea that idea ?
> Okay, a couple of suggestions.....
>
> Stick the eyes into an old pocket comb and use a binder clip attached to the
> comb to stand it up....paint the base color then come back aftyer it's dry and
> do the pupils.
*Now* you tell me !
8^)
TimW
August Kristoferson
Came in late on this thread (sorry if this approach has already been
posted) but here is a good eye-painting tip I gained from a local
flyshop guy:
Take a piece of 1/4 inch dowel (or pencil stub?)maybe 3 inches long.
Using a pencil sharpener, reduce the diameter of the ends to match the
desired iris and pupil diameters. Then just dip the end into the paint
and away you go. Single, cheap, easily made tool creates consistent
results.
August K.
Watercolor Fish Art
http://www.eskimo.com/~augustk
Douglas Hardie
If you mix 5 min expoxy with model paint you can put eyes on led eyes that
won't ever chip off.
> > > Try a half hitch tool!
> > > Holds just enough paint to make 2-4 eyes and does a really NEAT job!
> > > To this date I have not heard of anyone using this method. Let me know
> > > what you think!
> > >
> > > Nick DelleDonne
>
> >
> > I dunked 4 dozen in yellow laquer yesterday...used tweezers and
> > then rolled them on wax paper, then red dots with an 8p finishing
> > nail head.
> >
> > Was a pain in the ass...but they look cool.
> >
> > TimW
>
>
> Poisonally, I thank TBone jest like da smell o dat lacquer!!!!!
>
>
> Okay, a couple of suggestions.....
>
> Stick the eyes into an old pocket comb and use a binder clip attached to the
> comb to stand it up....paint the base color then come back aftyer it's
dry and
> do the pupils.
>
T-Bone
What universal law is it that states that just after doing something
difficult, you learn of an easier way to do it ?
TimW
A. Gades
In article <32B026...@rof.net> T-Bone <twa...@rof.net> writes:
From: T-Bone <twa...@rof.net>
Newsgroups: rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.tying
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 08:37:01 -0700
Organization: ARG!
What universal law is it that states that just after doing something
difficult, you learn of an easier way to do it ?
TimW
We used to call it learning...
cheers,
-tgades