Here are a couple of screen shots from the Sebata video. You can see he used self fusing tape on them as well. The video was an old video tape - not as clear as screen shots off a modern digital video.
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His “Kebari” is his own
Self-bonding tape “Kebari” is not a common thing either
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It’s just thread body, I’m still learning to tie so they are a bit sloppy.
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Ah, some types of threads do lay flat, if not twisted, and can look like a different material.
I have seen flies people have wrapped with colored cellophane that also had a similar appearance.
A friend has a talent for finding and using odd discarded materials for fly bodies. Fibers from packing tapes, etc. What some people call - Trash Flies. No not the flies around your trash. Flies tied from stuff normally thrown into the trash.
https://flyfishmagazine.blogspot.com/search?q=trash+flies
Oh, earlier I forgot to mention that the hinoki kyōgi himo body kebari. if left uncolored, bare wood, takes on an interesting brown color when wet. They might also have the mouth feel of a crunchy bug in a fish’s mouth.
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The store liked the shape of the hook and their color. I decided to try to tie kebari. There was a difficulty with cutting the feather, it is difficult to cut it smoothly. Well, I made two simpler ones.
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Those are very nice, I really like those hooks too.
Four 檜 経木紐 ボディ毛鉤 [ hinoki kyōgi himo bodi kebari] I tied last evening.
Two with the hinoki kyōgi himo left bare wood. The one on the left was dipped in water. It becomes a little bit transparent when wet, the color of the thread below it shows through. You can’t really see in the photo, but the wood shaving also becomes a bit darker brown.
Two more that I colored with Uni Posca Marker. I like the uncolored ones more.
However, the Posca markers are pretty color fast in water, the colors do no fade very much or not at all. In the past I have colored kebari wrapped with white or nearly white thread, of cotton or silk thread. An idea I once saw in a video of couple of Japanese tenkara anglers fishing. They were not catching many fish with the white body kebari. So they colored the body of the kebari red, to see if their catch rate increased. It did. But who knows maybe the change in color helped or maybe it was just coincidence they caught more fish afterwards.
Sorry for these photos being unsharp. I could not find my camera tripod, and it is difficult to hold the camera steady in hand taking up close photos.
The hinoki kyōgi himo material is kind of an interesting body wrapping material. I think it was not a particularly successful material to use, otherwise people would still be using it. The hinoki kyōgi himo feels something like corn husks. Each piece is about 1/2inch (13mm) in width, and it works better to cut off narrow strips (~2mm) of it to wrap round the hook shank.
It was something Sebata Yuzo demonstrated in tenkara video made 25 or so years ago. In which he also tied kebari using self-fusing silicon tape. He is still tying kebari with the tape, but I haven’t seen any recent examples of hinoki kyōgi himo body kebari.
I have caught fish with the ones I have tied with hinoki kyōgi himo. Just something new to try - for fun variation of trying out an old idea.
The hooks used are Firehole Sticks, # 419, size 12.
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Vladimir, is that a bag of hinoki kyōgi?
Mostly I see hinoki kyōgi string sold in bundles, it is straight, about 52cm long.
And very thin. As thin as tissue, or plastic shopping bag.
If the wood shavings you have turn out to be to thick to wrap onto the hook.
I can mail a few pieces to you. I have more than I will ever use. I have only tied a few flies with hinoki kyōgi string.
An experiment just to see what it was like, to see if it would work. Maybe to a fish it would feel like a crunchy bug.
Is it still very cold where you live? Rivers still covered with ice?
Even where I live it was very warm today, 72˚F, but by morning snow flurries predicted and 42˚F tomorrow.
David, I do not have such chips. I took this photo from Amazon. I put the name of the chips in the search box and got the only result. shavings. I’d rather ask a familiar woodwork of fine wood chips, I think a pine tree will do. I tried using trout skin on the body kebari.
I cleaned fish scales, removed, salted, dried and cut into thin strips. We still have winter, yesterday was fishing in winter, but did not catch fish. I hope in May the snow will begin to conceal, although in the northern regions and in the middle of June you can get into winter fishing.
I hope google translate correctly.
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Just looking at those pictures makes me feel colder. 
I prefer cold weather viewed through the window from inside my warm house.
During the summer I sometimes see a snake killed on the road, and have thought - may be I could skin the snake, salt or by other means dry the snake skin. And try using it to wrap the body of a fly. But have not yet tried doing it.
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I think the material for kebari should be simple and affordable. Like sewing thread like a bird feather laying on the ground, down plants. Although sometimes you want to use the Firebird feather in kebari (this is a feather of unusual beauty from a Russian fairy tale)
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For your reference
Viper “Kebari”・・・蝮毛鉤
「郡上マムシ毛バリ」
black Viper “Kebari”
Red Viper “Kebari”
Use the belly skin
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バケ皮毛鉤・・・魚皮（fish skin）
Shred
Other colors（Color with marker pen）
It is a material that can be seen through when it gets wet
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Nice looking kebari. The only thing in the pictures I could match would be a few corks from Dark Horse wine. Mostly I keep them to wipe off the burr edge of knife blades when sharpening them.
If I understand it correctly you used the shredded fish skin to make the hackle.
A tricky process. I have a couple of old tenkara videos featuring Hiromichi Fuji (弘道富士氏) . He ties some kebari using long feather barbs cut from duck feathers for the hackle. The feathers alone would be to long to tie on for hackle the usual way.
Here is a kebari I tied with the duck feather barbs. They are still a little bit to long.
In the past I could easily collect duck feathers. A small stream runs along the south side of my yard. And we had several resident ducks, but over the last two years they have all disappeared. Killed off I think by foxes or raccoons.
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How did I miss all of these posts? Wonderful work I can’t wait to try my hand!
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Having alot of success this year during our protracted runoff season here in Colorado with Oni Sakasas in sizes 12 thru 8. Possum dubbing is amazing.
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Beautiful looking kebari @Jonathan_Antunez! Thanks for joining the forum and we hope to see you around
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