Fly Tying Tutorial: The Jumbo John 

Thick is more durable and builds up nicely, but it has a bit of tack. Flow helps reduce the tack

Works really well.

David B If you tie your flies on tag ends you won’t have that issue.

If you don’t want tags, you can go eye to eye as well

Brian Kempkes it’s the Loon Quick Cut whip finisher. store.flyfishfood.com/Loon-Ergo-Whip-Finisher-p/f1001.htm

Fly Fish Food thanks , i thought it was a stand alone tool, that’s why I couldn’t figure it out.

@@troutnut01 you can also grind a cutting edge on the back of most whip finishers that's what Tim Flagler uses

@@vanquish_8145 unfortunately I’m old school and learned to tie before they created whip finish tools and I learned how to whip finish by hand, even down to #28. I found a miniature jewelers file, used my grinder to smooth the sides, put a 22 degree bevel into the tip, te hardened it, then used my sharpening diamond steels to hone a 28 degree micro bevel like my wood chisels, then imbedded the other end into a scrap piece of Osage wood and made that into a little handle, it works pretty good, much better than any scissors could.

Just wiggled it until it broke

Wait... The copper... Those are flush cutters. They work great for cutting thick wire.

the ones you have on your site?

Jared Militello yep

David Straub it’s just harder to apply the wire on a curved hook using the rotary