A new guy at the vise

[Pastor]

My wife bought me a vise and some tools and some jig tying material for my anniversary present. So I have been playing around with some very basic ties. I want to try some chenille on my next ones but I am lost at how to secure the last couple of wraps. Any help would be appreciated. Here are a few pictures of some of my first jigs. Please feel free to scrutinize and pass along any advise. I have already learned that a plane shank is easier for me to tie than a jig with a collar and barb. Hopefully I will learn more as I continue to tie. I am not getting into the retail business. I just thought it would be neat to catch a fish on a jig that I actually tied myself.

[Pastor]

Guys, here are a couple more pictures for you to scrutinize and give advise on.

[captankangaroo]

When you get to the last wrap take your thred around the chenille 3x, then around the jig 3x, then back around the chenille 3x then whip finish. that`s how I do it. there is meny ways i`m sure, skip or one of the other great tyers on here can give a lot of good info on tying.

[RetiredRR]

Don't forget, super glue (a little dab) works great. Your gonna get addicted, I can tell.

[DockShootinJack]

Nice looking start. There are some great you tube videos on tying that helped me a lot. I love those red sickle hooks, that's all I use anymore

[DockShootinJack]

Welcome to the addiction. Tying materials have a way of multiplying while your bank account goes through subtraction.

[Bobo Greybeard]

Welcome to the new hobby. It is extremely rewarding. Keep posting pics for all of us to see your progress. You are off to a great start.


Bobo

[STUMP HUNTER]

Welcome to the craft of tying. I already see a big improvement from the first pics to the second pics on your wrapping of the thread body's. I can see that you are well on your way to becoming one of the tyers that will want more materials weekly

[skiptomylu]

May want to check out the sticky post at the top of this board for new guys! Big help for most.

Also so once I have everything tied in all you need to is a 5 wrap whip finish. Either by hand (I do t like because the thread catches on my old dry hands) or the whip finish tool also talked about in the stupi my post.

here is a couple links, but there are other sticky post that should interest you.
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...m/49489-tying/

this is one you can see me use the whip finish tool to finish that jig!
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...cutting-video/

Skip

[Pastor]

Thanks for all of the kind words everyone. And, all of you are right, this can get addictive and expensive. I visited Bass Pro Shops yesterday and picked up a few new materials. Even my wife kept saying "you need this and you may need this." It was so funny. I got some chenille and tried my hand with it last night.