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you could always tie it with acouple of shoe strings
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Yeah,...I usually don't post here, but I've been thinking about dancing Northern a time or two just to take a break from Straight. Anywho....thats what I do!
I made up a leather spreader with "feather holsters" (sorry, brain dead right now....) made of leather as well. Imagine you are looking at it from above. I have two wholes punched inside the circumference of the my "feather hosters"...The shoe string will go in from the bottom, through, and back down so the two ends are hanging underneath the spreader. Now, punch two wholes on each side of your "feather holsters". Make sure your punched wholes on the outer edges are not too close to the edge....
Now, there should be a total of 6 wholes punched going in a straight line from left to right. With your two shoe strings underneath, poke each end up through the nearest punched whole and back down to the outer whole. The result will give you the shoe laces down again....Here, you will only need to take a pair of needle nose pliers and poke them through the roach (particularly if you have a yarn based roach).
Here, you should be able to see the roach coming together. Now, the purpose of the shoestring going in and out of the 6 wholes will provide not only support for your roach and spreader and that it will not slide as easily....but also, between the 3rd and 4th whole (inside the "feather holster"), you can put a sturdy fishing swivel in so that the feathers can be interchanged (that is if you have feathers w/ loops) and they can spin and flop to take away wind pressure.
I think this in itself will get you started. Doing this should put enough ideas in your head to finish it however you want to make it more your own. If you need something specificly done (i.e. add another "holster", no looped feathers) and this won't work for you or your still having trouble, pop me a PM, send me an email at
redoaksingers@yahoo.com or look me up AOL Instant Messenger under the name
luvssosinging