Step by step fork

Janusz Kitowski - 2007-03-23, 07:01
Post subject: pitchfork - making step by step.Since there are several people who are interested in pitchforks, I decided to make a pitchfork step by step. The photos are taken without a tripod, by hand. Therefore, the focus may be too small.

Workmanship Description:

• Hook - AK 711 #8
• Thread - yellow and black from Venom
• Tail - black goose biots
• Torso - 2/3 wound hare dubbing in the color of onion, wound with copper wire, at the top a thin strip of yellow insulation tape from trafork, the remaining part - dubbing from gray hare. Weighted with lead lamella. The seed of the wings made of insulating tape from the transformer, the edges burned over the candle.
• Legs- made of pheasant rays.
• Mesh - beads connected by a sunken line.
• Wands - wild boar hair
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1 Fix the hook in the vise and wind up about 7 mm yellow leading thread.

2. flattened 0.8 mm lead lamette tie on the right side of the hook, cut the lamette ( 7 mm ) diagonally and do the same on the left side.

3 Again to the hook shank, about 4 mm behind the previously tied lemma, we attach a piece of flat Pb, tie a thread in the direction of the eye of the hook and also on the side of the hook arc obliquely cut, for example, with a scalpel. The length of this lamette is about 13 mm. The right and left sides must look identical. You can see exactly what is involved in the photos.

4 We attach a copper wire and tie the rest of the Pb with a leading thread in the direction of the arc of the hook. We can lubricate the resulting fly structure with rare shellac to strengthen it.

5. split the leading thread, lubricate with wax and apply dubbing.
6. wind 2, 3 coils of dubbing i......
7. ........ tie black goose biots on two sides.

8. put a new portion of dubbing between the split thread.

9. wind the abdomen of the fly.

10 Finish winding at the point where there are two layers of lamette, you can slightly enter the thicker structure.

11. from the bright yellow insulation of the transformer, cut a slanted strip .

12 We apply to the top of the trunk and use copper wire to tie it, forming a segmentation of the abdomen. We cut off the excess strip and wire. We tie the yellow thread and cut it off.

13.Attach black leading thread, split, lubricate with wax, you can also without wax and put dubbing dark ( here gray ). Wind two coils. The abdomen of the fork is ready. Now we will form the rest of the fly.

14 The legs are tied from the rays of the rudders of a pheasant cock. For this fly, the knots on the rays are tied as suggested by Rafal and reinforced with rare shellac - the lobes themselves.

15. one pair of legs was attached.

16. cut a strip 5 mm wide from the insulating tape from the transformer.

17. from the strip cut out the wings.

18. elements before burning.

19. Burning over a candle flame.

20 Burned items.

21. wing tied.

22. tied second pair of legs and another wing.

23 We just have the whole torso ready, there are pinks and eyes left to tie.

24 - Wands tied.

The 25th eyes green, just as Jurek wanted - tonkin. In halogen light they came out yellow..............

26 Finished fork. Enjoy watching and to the vices Gentlemen, hehehe 😉 .