Cutting Mylar Strips for Fly Tying & Crafts

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • 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

Комментарии • 38

  • @diecastrejuvenation7779
    @diecastrejuvenation7779 Год назад +1

    This is brilliant! Thanks for the tutorial!

  • @johnmeyer6197
    @johnmeyer6197 5 лет назад +6

    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.

  • @robertgreen5217
    @robertgreen5217 2 года назад

    Now that’s a tip👍

  • @000rifatkayar000
    @000rifatkayar000 3 года назад +1

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

  • @steventhehistorian
    @steventhehistorian 5 лет назад +2

    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
      @chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852  5 лет назад

      Thanks for watching!

    • @rider660r
      @rider660r Год назад

      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.

  • @Gator_Bait_Motorsports
    @Gator_Bait_Motorsports 2 года назад

    What a money saver tip this is, thanks !

  • @johnatdutton
    @johnatdutton 5 лет назад +1

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

  • @jamesvatter5729
    @jamesvatter5729 4 года назад

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

  • @stevetrybalski3082
    @stevetrybalski3082 5 лет назад

    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.

  • @Im118ish
    @Im118ish 3 года назад

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

  • @joeduca8582
    @joeduca8582 5 лет назад

    Great tool Chris, thanks.

  • @genesloan3175
    @genesloan3175 4 года назад +2

    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.

  • @KenRadManRaddon
    @KenRadManRaddon 5 лет назад

    Nice, clever video.

  • @andreasherbeck9230
    @andreasherbeck9230 5 лет назад

    Good idea!! Greetings from Heidelberg Germany

  • @paulus0109
    @paulus0109 5 лет назад

    Very helpfull! Thnx very much.

  • @kiwisafa101
    @kiwisafa101 Год назад

    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
      @rider660r Год назад

      1 more than a lot

    • @tuloko16
      @tuloko16 10 месяцев назад

      More then enough i would say.

  • @noelange1
    @noelange1 4 года назад

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

  • @earthcoolsoncemore
    @earthcoolsoncemore 5 лет назад

    Any idea if you can do this with silicon balloons?

    • @chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852
      @chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852  5 лет назад

      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.

  • @wdtaut5650
    @wdtaut5650 3 года назад

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

    • @chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852
      @chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852  3 года назад

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

    • @williamkrejca4641
      @williamkrejca4641 2 года назад

      @@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
    @grinninggoat5369 4 года назад

    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