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| Wondering what you guys use to color marabou. I have a blue bucktail, that i would love to make black. Thinking its prob fairly simple, just dont know what to buy to dye it.
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Location: Poynette WI. | I think you would be better off just making a black skirt and would be more time/cost effective. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | A long time ago in a place far away, several guys decided that if we shot the deer, saved the tails and dyed them we could eat venison and tie bucktails all winter. It was sound as rain on paper. I suggest that you go ahead and buy a black tail, let the guys with the long gloves do the dying and drying. |
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Location: Poynette WI. | I still use my own deertails if there nice, but i havent dyed any to date. I clean them with dawn dish soap, rinse, let dry and pour borax over them and let sit for a couple weeks and they work for me as long as i keep them dry. Actually any of the white bucktail on my tails are from deer i've shot or have given to me. One day if i get enough i might actually start dying my own, would love to get some colors that nobody else is using. |
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| I have had good results by dying in Ritz Clothes dye. I used the powder type. I tied the jig with white hair, put clear finger nail polish on the threads and head. Put the jigs in a pan of hot water added the dye and brought the pan to a rolling boil. Let cool and rinse in clear cold water and the dye stayed on the hair and finger nail polish. Musky Glenn |
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| thanks for the replies. One of the guys in my club also recommended Ritz. I will give it a try. thanks |
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