Hey Fly Tiers...What's In The Vise?

[Bartman44]

You keep such a tidy tying bench. Mine looks like it was hit by a cyclone!!!!!!

Mine too. I have marabou flying around all over the place. 

Nice set up RG, you must have been good this year to get and early Christmas gift. 

[RIVERRAT2]

You keep such a tidy tying bench. Mine looks like it was hit by a cyclone!!!!!!
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2X that,mine too
 
RAT

[Mac Attack]

Well Santa dropped an early gift down the chimney.

Meth lab?

Very nice Bob.
Not sure how it happened.
Cause I just know you were on the "naughty" list.

[rgfixit]

I'm my own best friend  Mac

I do try to keep my bench in order. When it gets sloppy, my flies get sloppy too. It's some ancient form of OCD.

Tried working on a Caddis Pupae pattern this morning. It's a tricky little pattern until one gets in a rhythm. Gave up. Just didn't have it today. It goes like that for me. Most days it feels perfectly natural. But some days, it's best to do something else.

I tie almost every day, for a while at least. Kinda like practicing the guitar, ukulele  or piano. I get lost at the bench.

Rg

 

[perchgypsy]

Fortunately I have vises. Unfortunately, I have vices as well

Rg
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New favorite saying right there 

[rgfixit]

Been working on a Caddis Pupae for the ice.


It's getting there.

Rg

[oatkasut]

That's nice; it would work right now with the browns!

[RIVERRAT2]

Been working on a Caddis Pupae for the ice.


It's getting there.

Rg
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that [ caddis] is what i use in deep  water [20ft deeper] put 3 or 4 on line about one ft apart
 
RAT

[RIVERRAT2]

I think NY needs a program to help those poor suicidal deer. A deep woods hotline or something. Maybe we can get some of those NYC politicians to start one.

Rg

NOW here is what a mess looks like[my fly table

[Raquettedacker]

Looks great to me Rat...  Everything is within reach....

[fishnmachine]

I don't see anything wrong with that,  Rat!   

[rgfixit]

Looks well used and comfortable Rat. I like it too.

Rg

[rgfixit]

Found this neat LED light at Wally World for $20 so I decided to mount it to my tying board. I like the bamboo cutting board as a base. It has a groove around the perimeter that keeps beads and such from rolling off the bench. The background is easy  on the eyes too.






While I was at it I decided to inlet some pretty good ceramic magnets I found at Lowes to keep the vise from moving around. Sometimes I get kind of aggressive and the new vise with the fixed base was moving on me. I tried to drill a hole in the magnets to mount with a screw.......fat chance.......so I gorilla glued them in place.


I set the vise base on top to make sure the magnets ended up flush with the surface.




Worked out pretty nice. Good light and that vise simply will not move  



Rg

[bigal409]

I love it. Nice job   

[RIVERRAT2]

that will work,and it looks real great.my base for my vise is just an old round hunk of metal,but it works
like you i moving my vice all over, we just got to much POWER
DOES look great
 
RAT