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About 25 years ago, in the mid 1980s, when I was still building hand made
wood-fiberglass driftboats, I talked to a foam wholesaler in Seattle.
I wanted to buy the lightest possible closed cell foam for making
bouyant boat seat cusions. I bought about a hundred dollars worth of
EVA (ethylvinylacetate) foam in various colors, in the lightest bun weight
he had in stock. The salesman I worked with was careful to point out
what I was buying wasn't the lightest possible foam--it was the lightest
he had in stock. I few months after I bought the foam I decided to stop
losing money building boats, and I closed up my boat shop.
I still have the foam. I use if for making unsinkable dry flies now.
The foam I have (in white, black, yellow and salmon fly orange) is
substantially lighter than *ANY* fly tying foam I have ever seen
in any fly tying supply store anywhere. It makes better grasshoppers
and salmon fly adults than anything else out there.
So it boggles my mind: after 20 years of growing interest in foam dry
flies (Chernobyl Ants, etc) why is it that everybody is *STILL* selling
the wrong stuff?
If you're a fly tying materials wholesaler, call somebody like
Industrial Rubber in Seattle, Washington (they're wholesale only)
and ask for some closed cell foam, in whatever color you want,
with the lightest possible bun weight.
You'll be doing us all a big favor.
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