Brian,
I gave the split-wing; ribbed technique a try on a Matuka pattern after seeing Chris' posts. I tied it on a soft body, which makes it more difficult, in my opinion, to get the feather barbs to lie smoothly after passing the ribbing through them.
Here's what it looked like (posted before):
I'm going to try some killer patterns; Chris's flies have been great and Kelly also posted some nice ones.
Pocono