Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials Volume 1 by Schmookler and Sils

Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials Volume 1 by Schmookler and SilsA fantastic book for the serious fly tyer. Fly Tying Materials, a Natural History Volume 1 is devoted to birds, with 286 pages of spectacular photography. It covers 115 species with all of the famous ones that the classic tier knows well blue chatterer, Indian Crow, Toucan, Guinea Fowl, and dozens and dozens more. Whether it's used as a reference or simple as a key component of an angling book collection, this is a great addition. This copy is

The rod comes with the older style all brass ferrule plugs

A handsome little creation and Fred has made a limited number of these so don't miss out

Nickel silver uplocking screw lock with a lovely mortised walnut spacer

My hat is off to you Ron

Varnished walnut cap and ring seat

It features green olive main wraps with brown olive intermediates and red edges to the wraps and ferrules

for a #4 line

however the rod was packed in a cordura tube for "knocking about" and the original tube was lost by the estate

A rare Hardy St

Comes with a dark brown pouch

yellow and purple at the male ferrules

Seat and rod shafts are my usual spar varnish