Cutting Mylar Strips for Fly Tying & Crafts

See how I use a simple tool to cut repetitive thin strips of Mylar to use for fly tying and crafts. Use these strips for saltwater flies, buzzers, as ribbing, or body material in fly tying. These are a lot of good tips, including where to get Mylar from recycled packaging for a free supply of fly tying material in a variety of colors.
Materials:
Razor Blades: amzn.to/2TUuy78
Rainbow Loom Rubber Bands: amzn.to/2V5bJhO

[@diecastrejuvenation7779]

This is brilliant! Thanks for the tutorial!

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

Thank you for watching!

[@johnmeyer6197]

Thank you for a great video. I will have to make one of these. I would like to add that cutter would be useful for making your own rabbit zonked strips.

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

The one for rabbit strips is significantly different. I am working on that video too!

[@Gator_Bait_Motorsports]

What a money saver tip this is, thanks !

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

Glad it was helpful!

[@000rifatkayar000]

This is the idea what I am looking for! Simple but brilliant solution, thanks a lot!

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

You're welcome!

[@steventhehistorian]

Hey Chris, your fly tying videos are great. This mylar strip idea is awesome. So much more efficient than my single strip "ruler and exacto knife" method. Here's an idea for people who are struggling with making the handle form out of foil -- they could instead use the tray from a sliding box of matches, like the Coghlan's waterproof matches. Alternatively, a form could be made out of card stock by cutting out a base and sides and hot gluing the pieces together to make the box. Thanks again for being generous and sharing your experience and knowledge with the community!

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

Thanks for watching!

[@rider660r]

A better way is to just use a small machine screw,nut and a number of washers installed between each blade.It'd make an even more consistent spacing between the blades as you can see how inconsistent they are on both of his from the rubber bands being twisted.Also,if you didn't want to you wouldn't even have to mess with the epoxy.

[@jamesvatter5729]

Great idea. I wish I'd have had some of these shortcuts of your's a few decades ago!

[@Im118ish]

Man you have some incredibly ingenious ideas that produce legit results...more than earned my sub!

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

Awesome, thank you!

[@genesloan3175]

Nice ! Flash is usually so expensive, and a hank is always one color, so now I can have what ever color I want. I wonder if I used Lays chip bag, if the fish could only just eat one.

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

Hahahaha!

[@stevetrybalski3082]

Very good video. I have been looking for simple practical way to make strips for some time now. Thanks!!! I have a feeling the wife's mylar scrap bin is going to be raided.

[@johnatdutton]

Brilliant video. Will try it without doubt . Will try this using a match box instead of foil for the block. Thanks again .

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

The match box is a great idea. If you have one it should work well.

[@robertgreen5217]

Now that’s a tip👍

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

Thanks for watching!

[@joeduca8582]

Great tool Chris, thanks.

[@andreasherbeck9230]

Good idea!! Greetings from Heidelberg Germany

[@noelange1]

Love it, have you made the video for bunny strips yet?

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

Not finished, but underway.

[@noelange1]

@@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852 Awesome

[@KenRadManRaddon]

Nice, clever video.

[@earthcoolsoncemore]

Any idea if you can do this with silicon balloons?

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

You could cut them, but the material in them is such poor quality that they fall apart in about a week when exposed to sunlight. Guess it depends on what you are using the pieces for.

[@paulus0109]

Very helpfull! Thnx very much.

[@kiwisafa101]

how many is a buncha? or should i ask how many in a buncha? I am from New Zealand, and every time I hear Americans describe a quantity of anything it is referred to as a buncha, so I would like to know the reference count number of a buncha.

[@rider660r]

1 more than a lot

[@tuloko16]

More then enough i would say.

[@wdtaut5650]

"Tinsel is basically Mylar..." Not always. I have some (very old) silver tinsel that is actually silver.

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

The really old stuff (1960"s or so) is aluminum foil.

[@williamkrejca4641]

@@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852 I still have a partial spool of tinsel from my Tackle Tyers kit, ala 1940's. I don't know what material it was, mylar not being invented yet, I guess, but it had tarnished over the years, like old silverwear.

[@grinninggoat5369]

Great video but, as of today's date, I guess 7 people evidently really really really prefer store bought tinsel over DIY tinsel since they thumbs downed the video for some reason . Lol

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

Yep, that's KZbin!