Click to open new window with full size picture	After trimming off and binding down the loose ends you sre ready for the next stage of the wing. Try to keep the turns of thread to a minimum.
Prepare a suitably sized Golden Pheasant tippet feather and catch in with three or four turns of thread.	Click to open new window with full size picture
Click to open new window with full size picture	Above is the top view of this stage and opposite we have the normal side view again note the minimal turns of thread.  Click here for [More on the Tippet]
Trim off the feather close to the eye and bind down with five or six turns, trying to keep things reasonably level for the hackle.	Click to open new window with full size picture
Click to open new window with full size picture	Prepare a suitably sized hot orange cock hackle feather and catch in as shown. Trim off the excess stem close to the eye, leaving about 2 or 3 centimetres of the stem for binding against the hook.
Catch the tip of the feather in your hackle pliers and right hand and draw the fibres forward. Keep a tension on the feather as you pull the fibres to the left with your left fingers. You should aim for something like the image on the right.	Click to open new window with full size picture