Does Anyone Cut Their Own Rabbit Strips?

[Buggy]

I bought a Rabbit Hide Pieces Variety pack by Hareline Dubbin for $3.99 at a fly shop. The pack had white, black, olive, orange, tan, purple, magenta, light blue, and chartreuse. Great for bass flies.

This is a great deal, since the cut packaged strips of individual colors retail for $2.99. Each color of hide piece should provide close to a $2.99 pack of cut strips once cut. Here is a picture. The entire spread covers two 8 1/2” x 11” sheets of paper and the pieces overlap. You can save $$$ by cutting your own strips and control thickness.

 

[jayL]

Yeah, I have furs like that. I cut strips off as needed.

 

[tomgamber]

No, they scream too much!

 

[flipnfly]

heres what i did cutter what ever you do ont push the fur aginst the table while cutting it unless you want lots of dubbing it has to be lifted up i use a vice clamp to clamp it down to the table lift it up and they come out nice...

 

[Fredrick]

Nice flip that some good info right there . I can't wait to try my own now :-D

 

[Buggy]

Thanks for the video flipnfly.

 

[Maurice]

That was like a Red Green video...all that was missing was the duct tape.

 

[tomgamber]

..and the suspenders...I was impressed and may just have to try that.

 

[flipnfly]

i did it and it works nice but i used single edged blades kind of a pain in the butt to put together but i managed to cut zonkers and not myself