Married Wings: Barb Selection and Wing Orientation

[@Frank-i7o5i]

Very helpful Rich. Thanks! 👍👍👍👍

[@MrJewrican]

Cool technique Rich, great seeing you and fishing with you this past weekend! Tight lines!

[@flytyingwithrichlamonte]

Hey buddy! Was great to see you as well. You will see me again soon. ! Tight lines man

[@brittdaven]

Great video! Keep them coming! 💜

[@mikesullivan6738]

Glad I found your channel. Can't wait to see more. Thanks for taking the time to share your talent.

[@flytyingwithrichlamonte]

Tha ks for subscribing!!! I really just love fly tying and have talked to so many that want to learn more so I thought why not KZbin. Its the best way to be able to help. Feel free to ask questions or if you would like a video made on something, don't hesitate to ask. Thanks again!!!!

[@noelange1]

Well I'm marrying some goose shoulders, and using 4 fibers and trying to marry some golden pheasant on each side of the red, white, and blue goose and having fun. Do you put a dab of glue or something on the tips of the wings to keep the fibers together, mine seem to want to separate right at the tips of the wings.

[@flytyingwithrichlamonte]

Noooo. Never use any glue. With goose shoulder you have to use the upper half of the feather where the tips are all uniform and in good shape. If you use the parts of the feathers with the whisky tips, they will not marry, they will bee too thin and give you a strange profile and just not look right. With Golden Pheasant tail, that has a tendency to not want to marry up real well. Its quite delicate. Getting good quality tails matters quite a bit. Shoot me a message on Facebook messenger and I can send you some photos showing what im referring to with the goose.

[@noelange1]

Just realized that you have to reverse the colors and angle for the opposite side when making the wings, should have know that. As a retired engineer I missed that. Must be getting old, but I didn't think 80 almost 81 was old.DUHHH!!!!!! If not then the smooth side will be out, especially when the feather is bowed slightly so that when you tie them in the ends of the wings will push against each other to flatten them.

[@flytyingwithrichlamonte]

Exactly. However, I will be doing another video soon on wings. The true old way is to not reverse it and keep the angle just as it is when it comes off the feather. Ita sort of hard to explain here. But the way described in this video here, is more of a modern way of doing married wings. There are a few different ways to do them. This video is just one way. (I'm still learning more about the true old ways, so I don't want to put something up if I don't know what im talking about.) But soon ill have another video explaining the differences.