Since i am in the swap here...... figured i better get moving on this.
Got some wool roving from the craft shop up the street - a bleached and a natural color - $2.99 for a yard (?) that fills a sandwich sized bag stuffed full. Is meant for making doll hair but is 100%, wool according to the package. The clerk steered me away from some that looked darn near the same and said it was acrylic. Always good to shop in one of our small businesses. :icon14:
Anyway, below is the result. These are 1/16 heads, not sure about the hooks other than they are junk (IMO) compared to others i have gotten from members here. I have a rather large bag of these and consider them my throw away test subjects... learned my lesson on that order but that story is for another day.
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1st attempt on the bottom, 2nd in the middle and got a little closer to a shape i like on the last one up top. Used some pink pseudo marabou in the center of the red head jig - looks great in hand but hard to see in the pic. All have lots of K.Flash and midge flash in the core tied to the shank since the wool creates a transparent look they show up well. Not sold on this material yet AT ALL. Would have rather pulled my own hair out (if i had any) and tied with it. :beat-up: Maybe it will get easier by the time i am done with the swap - just hope i can turn out some decent jigs for the swap. :blush:
Got some wool roving from the craft shop up the street - a bleached and a natural color - $2.99 for a yard (?) that fills a sandwich sized bag stuffed full. Is meant for making doll hair but is 100%, wool according to the package. The clerk steered me away from some that looked darn near the same and said it was acrylic. Always good to shop in one of our small businesses. :icon14:
Anyway, below is the result. These are 1/16 heads, not sure about the hooks other than they are junk (IMO) compared to others i have gotten from members here. I have a rather large bag of these and consider them my throw away test subjects... learned my lesson on that order but that story is for another day.
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1st attempt on the bottom, 2nd in the middle and got a little closer to a shape i like on the last one up top. Used some pink pseudo marabou in the center of the red head jig - looks great in hand but hard to see in the pic. All have lots of K.Flash and midge flash in the core tied to the shank since the wool creates a transparent look they show up well. Not sold on this material yet AT ALL. Would have rather pulled my own hair out (if i had any) and tied with it. :beat-up: Maybe it will get easier by the time i am done with the swap - just hope i can turn out some decent jigs for the swap. :blush:
They are bronze sickles but the points on them are very very thin and bend over easily, there is almost no barb at all on many of them. It is a bag of about 50 ball heads and have only used 20 at most for paint trials..... so far i have pulled out four heads that have had two hooks in a head and one actually had two hooks coming out of opposite ends!!! Combination of a bad batch (not to my liking anyway) of hooks and some one who was trying to pour way too quickly and not watching QC as they went. Is it just me (frustration from this batch) or does the overall quality of the black sickles differ greatly from the bronze?