All I wanted was some thread, now I have my nose pressed to the glass like a kid

All I wanted was some bulk cones of nylon thread, and a couple hours later I was engrossed in a bunch of products I never knew existed. All have possibilities for the fly tyer – especially those tiers with a sense of adventure.

Disclaimer : I haven’t seen these in person, and “thread” to the sewing industry can be “yarn” to a fly tyer – so you’ll need to eyeball these with caution.

  1. Solar Active thread – apparently the thread gets brighter when exposed to the sun, it will also change color. $31.95 for a pack of four colors. A pack contains peach (becomes hot pink), yellow (orange), peach (wine), and turquoise (blue purple).
  2. Polypropylene Thread – likely this is the yarn we’re used to seeing on the little cards. 5000 yards for $17.00, likely this will lower your flood insurance payment – buy 2 or more spools and your house will float.
  3. Glow in the Dark Thread
    FuFu’s Glow in the Dark Embroidery Thread absorbs the light around it andGlow in the Dark thread offers 15 hours of glow time.  I see this as an interesting experiment, call it “Thread that makes you go, ‘Hmmm'” Colors: Blue, Classic, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, White, Yellow. 120 denier, 2ply (sounds like yarn) $13.95 for 1100 yards.
  4. Moonglow “Glow in the Dark” thread offers even more colors, $15.30 for 500 yards.

    5. Opalescent thread 5. Coats Iridescent Pearl Thread
    Might be an interesting ribbing material, at 40 wt it’s too thick to actually tie the fly with, but it may have additional value as a rib, akin to the many uses of wire. 200 yd. spool. Thread is 60% nylon core, 40% coated polyester. 1 Spool – $2.75

    6. I was surprised to find NYMO thread still around. Back in the 1970’s NYMO was the defacto flytying thread used by absolutely everyone. When they stopped making it the Danville and Monocord empire was born. It has been reborn as a “beading” thread for jewelry making, the smallest size available is “00” (2/0)- suitable for larger flies.

    Technorati Tags: , , ,

5 thoughts on “All I wanted was some thread, now I have my nose pressed to the glass like a kid”

  1. Pingback: Insurance » All I wanted was some thread, now I have my nose pressed to the…

  2. Lou

    About that Solar Active thread – don’t waste your money. I bought an assortment with the thought that it might be worth trying on the occasional novelty fishing rod for kids. Nope. It’s rayon. Can you say “fuzzies”? On top of that, the colors are what you might call subtle. And the color changes are so subtle that, in one case, they just don’t even freaking change from a funky near-white. It takes a pretty good bit of light to make the colors that do change do anything at all. If you’d like a starter set very cheap, just let me know. I’d say that even for fly tying, it’s basically crap.

  3. Kbarton10

    Thanks for the commentary Lou, it sure looked like it held some promise, I had the vision of a “drab” fly on a dull day, and a “bright” fly on a sunny day. It sounded good in theory.

  4. Pingback: The Friday Follies: The Weird, the Odd, and the Interesting | Fishing made easy

Comments are closed.