Are the pro grades decent or is it worth stepping up to bronze or silver grades? I will mostly be tying sizes 12-16. Anyone know of a good source for them?
Many thanks.
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Posts: 135 02/10/2009 16:12 |
Not sure about the saddles, but I can assure you the Hebert Miner Pro Grade necks are outstanding values. I have both Pro Grades and Silver grades and
relative feather density is the only difference between them and that is really slight. For the record, I buy for color much more than for grade, and my most
recent purchase was a "Medium Champagne" Hebert Miner Pro Grade neck for $25., and it is simply superb . . . at any
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Oh . . . and I tie primarily from 14 down to 22, and the Pro Grade covers that range beautifully. EP |
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Posts: 192 02/10/2009 16:23 |
I don't tie with saddles very often but I do use Hebert/Miner capes which I get from Jim Slattery.
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Ben Kann |
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Posts: 162 02/10/2009 18:27 |
I've been using a couple of Miner Pro Grade necks this winter and they're superb. They also (as any good neck should do) give you a deal more
flexibility than a (genetic) saddle in range of sizes. They would be a bargain at twice the price. Ben
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Posts: 14 02/10/2009 18:38 |
I'd have to second Eric's comment about color. Hold em up to the light find the sheen and shade that you like best then buy it. In my experience
staples like grizzly, dun, ginger are well worth the big bucks for higher end capes b/c of the number of feathers vs the less expensive necks in colors you
constantly use a lot of.... but color is key and from a good supplier the bronze, pro etc have the same quality hackle just a bit less of it. I have a couple
of whiting gold and platinum capes in staple colors that have been in use for years and are not anywhere near picked over. But again color first !!!!
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Posts: 2059 02/10/2009 18:47 |
I would skip the saddes, and buy Pro- or Bronze-grade Hebert Miner Necks in colors that you will use.....
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Posts: 24 02/10/2009 19:26 |
I have an Hebert/Miner Honey Dun saddle and it is superb. The feathers are extremely long and fall right into the hook size range you mention. I paid $15.00
for it on the auction site by the Bay. I have numerous other saddles by Whiting, Metz and Collins, but this one blows them all away. Whenever I do tying
demonstrations at fishing club meetings, I always have at least 6 guys wanting to buy it from me.
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Posts: 376 02/11/2009 00:39 |
I love the Hebert-Miner pro-grade capes. The ones I have are natural colors, which are robust. The feathers are practically as long as saddle hackles, wind
very easily, have strong stems high barb count. I paid between $25-30 for each cape and consider it a bargain. See no need to upgrade -- these necks are high
quality with poke-out-your-eye stiff barbs.
I think if you do a Web search you should be able to come up with a few dealers... drop them an email and see what they have. For what it's worth I got some of mine from Hook&Hackle, which seems to carry a decent number of the pro-grade capes. As a disclaimer, I have no business interest in that shop... and there are quite a few other shops that carry Hebert capes. Good luck, rjj ps -- the pro grade capes and the bronze capes I have seem to be about the same size... in other words, I don't think you lose many feathers with the pro grade. We few We happy few We bamboo brothers
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Posts: 137 02/11/2009 17:01 |
Here's a pic of my Champagne Hebert-Miner Pro Grade neck and a second shot showing the relative length of the #20 hackles. FWIW, those are midge hackle
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