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    Making Two Tone Skirts

    After 40 years of making skirts I am going to swallow my pride and ask for some help.

    What do folks do to get a good 2 tone skirt. Such as a white bottom and a green top or back.

    Mine always seem to mix no matter how I arrange the skirt tabs.

    Please tell me your secrets.

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    I use an o ring. After pulling both tabs through the o-ring, Put one color in one hand, the other color in the other hand and pull. Colors are 100% separate. Then while pulling slightly, Slide hook in gap. Skirt colors are perfectly separated.

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    Thank you I will try that. I was using painters tape and that was not getting it to where I wanted it to be.

    I will let you know how it works for me

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    PM me if you need me to explain better over the telephone.

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    This may sound silly but your wanting to two tone your skirts top half one color bottom other color and add a color to split them I can show how to do that. I will add pictures tomorrow. It called the umbrella skirt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 21XDC View Post
    I use an o ring. After pulling both tabs through the o-ring, Put one color in one hand, the other color in the other hand and pull. Colors are 100% separate. Then while pulling slightly, Slide hook in gap. Skirt colors are perfectly separated.

    This worked perfectly. Didn't cut the skirt tabs till after I had it on the spinnerbait. Looks just like I wanted it to be. Dark top and white bottom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Bass View Post
    This worked perfectly. Didn't cut the skirt tabs till after I had it on the spinnerbait. Looks just like I wanted it to be. Dark top and white bottom.

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    I tried 1/8" o-rings and they rolled to easy and the skirts fell down on lure. Or do you tie after the o-ring?

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    Hand tie them both seperately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alanhore View Post
    Hand tie them both seperately.
    That's how I do it too

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    Quote Originally Posted by MonteSS View Post
    I tried 1/8" o-rings and they rolled to easy and the skirts fell down on lure. Or do you tie after the o-ring?

    You must be using the wrong size O-rings

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