Gunville Foam Cutters From Upavon - DIY Booby and Ant Bodies - Fly Tying Tool Tutorial

In this Fly Tying Tool Tutorial video Cheech demonstrates how to use the Upavon Gunville Foam Cutters. The cutters are meant to cut foam cylinders which are used when tying foam ant and hopper bodies. As well as booby fly patterns. Cheech also demonstrates how to sharpen these cutters.

Products Used In Video:
- Dr. Slick Dual Hook File:

Fly Fish Food

[robertposenal]

I’ve been a fan of the Italian Florida based vice makers my self for over 25 yrs. I was not aware they sold stainless steel yeti cups. Thank you for your tutorial.

[upavonflyfishing]

Nailed the ‘Upavon’ this time! 😂 Great video as always guys.

[FlyRiderFishing]

I was wondering how to improve the sharpness of the blades - this was extremely helpful! Thanks 👍👍👍

[mr.robinson]

Looks like I won't be struggling to make bumblebees bodies anymore. Thanks.

[ronaldblair]

I have been using a piece of an aluminum arrow shaft and/or any type of small tube to get the thickness you need. I have used a bullet case debuting tool used in reloading to keep the edge sharp, doesn’t take much. Copper tubing is to unstable and bends easily. Hard to find some types of thin solid tubing but the arrow shaft will get you 1/4 in plugs that I cut. In all thicknesses of all kinds of foam. Kids small poon floats, not pool noodles, will get you about a thousand 1 1/4” long plugs. Flip flops do pretty good too sometimes. Anyway, just another idea to help and not spend a ton of money. Hook em in the lip!

[brianfeeney]

HOLA CHEECHARINO from NW Michigan 🌞
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[Rich-fgvj]

"i'm going to drill down to my you mean the one with the band-aid on it? LOL

[tomharvey]

Great video I would like to make one point we don’t have leprechauns in Scotland the Irish have a few

[sandranelson]

I'm gonna sharpen one end of some 1/4 inch stainless tubing and go to town. ooooh

[riderr]

Or for about 1/2 to 3/4 the price of that set you could make 3-4 sets of 8-10 different sizes like I did.Anything and everything that says or is associated with fly fishing is overpriced.

Just buy thin wall tubing of what ever material you want, Stainless Steel, Brass, etc., some dowels/wood plugs close to the diameter of the tubes and some cheap epoxy/glue.

I bought 12in brass in 8-10 different diameters for $1-1.50 ea. and was able to make four 3in cutters out of that one 12in piece.Spent about $5 on wood dowels and maybe $3 on epoxy/glue.
It'd be even much much cheaper if you only need one or a few sizes.

[timcostanzo]

What kind of foam do you use. How does it compare with old flip flop foam? And finally where can I get some

[timcostanzo]

I use plug cutters and wish I knew the soapy water trick

[michaelterry]

When i use my drill and pull out the core stays in block.

[ezzye]

Not sharp enough to cut you as he drills towards a finger with a bandage on it. Hmm…

[irvhealy]

Push it towards your finger would be more convincing if he didn’t have a bandage on said finger lol

[cwoods]

Utah Jazz?! Are you out of Utah, bud?