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

[rgfixit]

I steal Bic pens from anywhere I see one unattended

Those plastic tubes have a thousand uses. I use one when I'm finishing rods in the lathe. If I get a little bubble in the epoxy, I can remove it by blowing some air through the tube onto the wraps. Works like a charm.

Here's another one......everyone uses Q-Tips for something or other.  I use them on the bench for cleaning reels , guns etc. Buy the ones with the plastic shaft. After use, cut the ends off, cut the shaft in half and tie on some heavy thread in a 6-8 wrap nail knot leaving tag ends a couple of inches long.

Instant slip bobber stop. 

Feed the mono through the plastic tube, slide the knot off onto the mono, pull the two tag ends as tight as needed and clip off the tag ends. A sliding, adjustable slip knot.

Been doing that ever since I bought the first package of those little Lindy slip knots for some ungodly price back 40 or so years ago. Great for crappie fishing.

Rg

[rgfixit]

Also, I forgot to mention that you can make any size bullet head tool you want with a leather hole punch and a plastic bottle cap. I have some of those around too. 

Rg

[rp dog]

I can't throw away Popsicle sticks there easy to split and can be used to mix epoxies, paint in small jars etc etc.
Rp

[MattyP123]

Here's another one......everyone uses Q-Tips for something or other.  I use them on the bench for cleaning reels , guns etc. Buy the ones with the plastic shaft. After use, cut the ends off, cut the shaft in half and tie on some heavy thread in a 6-8 wrap nail knot leaving tag ends a couple of inches long.

Instant slip bobber stop. 

GENIOUS!

[WANNAKETCHUM]

I steal Bic pens from anywhere I see one unattended

Those plastic tubes have a thousand uses.

Here's another one......everyone uses Q-Tips for something or other.  I use them on the bench for cleaning reels , guns etc. Buy the ones with the plastic shaft. After use, cut the ends off, cut the shaft in half and tie on some heavy thread in a 6-8 wrap nail knot leaving tag ends a couple of inches long.

Instant slip bobber stop. 

Feed the mono through the plastic tube, slide the knot off onto the mono, pull the two tag ends as tight as needed and clip off the tag ends. A sliding, adjustable slip knot.

Been doing that ever since I bought the first package of those little Lindy slip knots for some ungodly price back 40 or so years ago. Great for crappie fishing.

Rg

I'm on the same page with that Rg... got a stack of spent ball point cartridges for whenever I need them! 

WK

[rgfixit]

I can't throw away Popsicle sticks there easy to split and can be used to mix epoxies, paint in small jars etc etc.
Rp

One thing I learned from the gunsmith I apprenticed with was to mix most epoxies on a flat surface with a knife. Very few bubbles. I have a ceramic tile I use for that.  Cleans up with isopropyl alcohol.

I made a 12 rpm mixer for rod finish. Holds a glass tea candle cup at a 30 degree angle. I measure the epoxy into the cup, stick it on the mixer and place a large ball bearing in the mixture. 3 or 4 minutes and it's mixed with virtually no bubbles.

Pour it out on to a tin foil covered paper plate and it extends the pot life ten fold.


Rg

[boondox]

Those plastic tubes have a thousand uses. I use one when I'm finishing rods in the lathe. If I get a little bubble in the epoxy, I can remove it by blowing some air through the tube onto the wraps. Works like a charm.
Rg

here is another one for the plastic q tip tubes when doing powder paint you can load them full of paint and paint dots with them...seen it done many.. many.. times. my favorite steely jig has a solid white head and pink dots and is tied with white and pink rabbit...

[Raquettedacker]

I know you guys like seeing this guy this time of year..  Eating dinner yesterday at my moms and he decides to jump up and look in the window...

[fishnmachine]

Handsome bird!   

[rgfixit]

He looks more like a renewable resource to me

What's his name Dom?

Rg

[Raquettedacker]

Mom calls him "The Prince"....

[rgfixit]

A fitting moniker

Rg

[trapper2000]

I  have  used a  ball point  pen  or  a coffee  straw  but   most the  time I half hitch  with  my  finger  and  I  can whip fish  with  my hands  too, I  do like  the  half hitch bobkin  tool it  has a lot  of uses .....

[rgfixit]

Wish I could whip finish with my hands, but they're so doggone big I have troubles with it. I can half hitch with my bobbin with a couple underhand loops. Other than that I use a Matarelli.

Rg

[Bartman44]

Mom calls him "The Prince"....

Perfect because I recently tied up some "Prince" nymphs for the fall with the herl you gave me from that bird. 

I also am using some of the stuff you sent me to tie up some mouse patterns.