Clark Dubbing Block Demonstration

 

William Anderson demonstrates how to use a Clark Spinning Block. The video shows how to prepare the silk thread with wax, use tweezers for sparse placement of dubbing and the twisting process. You can also just place the dubbing with your fingers.

James Leisenring spun dubbing loops on his trouser leg. After The Art of Tying the Wet Fly was published in 1941, a pupil of Leisenring, Richard G. Clark, decided the technique that Leisenring used was important enough to design a tool to help make it easier and neat. This is when the Clark Spinning Block was created.