Silvercreek’s Crystal Coat UV cured head cement.
Silvercreek offers two really great head cements that are UV cured. I love ‘em and use both. They dry quickly and are hard and absolutely tack free, and both are flexible. I use the thin Crystal Coat for the heads on most of my flies. I love the thick Crystal Coat to give my streamers and bucktails a very smooth, highly polished head. One coat is all that’s needed.
Silvercreek’s Crystal Hard UV Coat is hard with some flex and Silvercreek’s Crystal Flex UV Coat is hard with more flex. Silvercreek’s Crystal Flex UV Coat is a hard clear UV cured coating for flies with additional properties. It is a clear pliable coating that can be used to apply eyes to a fly, to repair waders, leaky tent seams, coating leader knots, coating and sealing foam flies, and to repair cracks that occur in iPod/iPad/iPhone charger wires, ear buds, etc. It is also an excellent all around fly tying resin. I recommend the Crystal Flex for those ordering just one resin to try.
Both UV Coats comes in a 15 cc bottle with an applicator brush. They are $15.00 each. They contain 50% more resin than the 10cc syringe of Clear Cure Goo and the bottle/brush is a better system than a syringe with the applicator tips that cost extra. It is also better than a squeeze bottle or a squeeze tube that others use. The brush system has no waste, and the brush allows you to apply a thick or thin coat of the resin. You can apply a single thin or medium coat or multiply coats to get a single thick coat. I also apply Crystal Coat with my bodkin for small flies or to place it very specifically on the fly (as in attaching eyes).
To get yours, contact: picaboo@charter.net, put silver coat in the subject line