Can anyone identify this tool?

[Tull66]

Fingers are free and can be used tool free, unlike tools…

For those of us that that work responsibly at sawmills. 😉

 

[Bamboozle]

Fingers are free and can be used tool free, unlike tools…

For those of us that that work responsibly at sawmills. 😉

One would assume you hold hooks with your fingers and are all about whip finishing by hand, just holding a spool of thread between your fingers to go sans bobbin, using your fingers instead of hackle pliers and biting off excess thread with your teeth...

Or is it just a $2.50 fly tying tool that you find unnecessary? 😎

 

[Tull66]

One would assume you hold hooks with your fingers and are all about whip finishing by hand, just holding a spool of thread between your fingers to go sans bobbin, using your fingers instead of hackle pliers and biting off excess thread with your teeth...

Or is it just a $2.50 fly tying tool that you find unnecessary? 😎

All assumptions are wrong. I spin deer hair and smoosh it back with my phalanges.

 

[ledhead1944]

A friend of mine gave me his late father’s fly tying collection. It’s an amazing batch of stuff. I will have more thread, hackles, deer hair etc.. for my lifetime. There is one tool I can’t quite figure out. They were in with the thread spools so I think it’s something to do with that. Thanks in advance.

Glad you posted this pic! I also bought some fly-tying materials from some family members who were clearing out some old fly-tying equipment. Actually, I bought two lots of fly-tying materials, tools, vises, etc. I too have thread, hackle, furs, etc. for a lifetime and then the afterlife LOL.

I had to look around on some websites for what certain tools where and these hackle guards were a mystery until I caught your post.

I see that the guards worked well for you however, I can see that they could cut into thread. What type of thread and gauge did you use successfully? I can see thinner threads could get cut.