Any ideas for a wastebasket?

[STUMP HUNTER]

I used a 9x14 baking pan. Cut two 1x3 with a 1/4 slot down one edge and screwed them under my tying desk. When I'm tying I slide it out to catch all the drops and can push it in when not tying. When it gets full, pull it out and empty. Works very well for just a few dollar investment

[Micropterus salmoides]

I cut a hole in my makeshift bench to hold a small flip top and mounted a removable box underneath. Amazing what you can come up with when I go to dump it.

Only pic I have but it's the white portion on the middle of the farther right table.

[Micropterus salmoides]

Awesome job SH!

[dblevens]

Some very good ideas. Nice benches too by the way. I use the kitchen table. Im a newbie. And for the mess, I use a paper plate and when I'm done, I put another paper plate on top(very gently) until I can get to the trash can with it, and dump it out. Old school I guess.

[Redman]

bd Guess that I for got to mention that if you bunch the plastic trash bag up a few time that it will get a static charge on it and the excess feathers and hair waste will be attracted to the bag. May sound stupid but it works for me. BTW I use the cheapest bags I can find for the tying waste they seem to take a better static charge than the expensive Glad type expandable kind. Never tried it but the plastic bags that they give at the grocery and Wally world to carry home the goods ( known in this neck of the woods as Wal-Mart luggage ) may work even better and they are free.

Redman

[hair jig]

Go to hobby lobby get a med sized craft ring take it apart put a zip lock bag on it put the other part around the neck of you're vise then put part with the zip lock
back into the ring around the vise.

[PA_Slabs]

A bit off the original topic but one of my best investments for my tying area is a small "Dustbuster" type vacuum that stays at my bench. I clean up all the little scraps as I go and don't have much of a mess ever.

2x on the dust buster. I use a 5 gallon bucket on the floor. I also have one of my wife's old carpet doormats on the floor to "hold" anything that misses the bucket.

BTW, the scraps are recyclable. You can put the scrap feathers and hair outside and the birds will use it for nesting material.

[Fatman]

I took a regular wire coat hanger and made rounded holes on both ends that my vise stem would fit through and then just put a plastic bag in it.
Free and bags from the grocery store work just fine.

[bdorman]

Just to close the loop in this thread...as though anyone cared...here's the solution I came up with for a wastebasket.

It's a 2" x 12" plastic drawer organizer (my wife has zillions of them; Mrs. Organization) with "key slots" drilled/dremeled into the side, and held to the workbench lip with a couple of screws. The screw holes are countersunk in the workbench lip so I can bury the screws out of the way when not in use. A moist paper towel in the bottom of the tray keeps marabou, etc from taking flight if I sneeze.

It's in a handy position when I'm cutting something that I'm holding, or to catch cuttings off of the vise. Anything that lands on the table is easily swept into the tray.

[STUMP HUNTER]

Looks like it does a great job for you, nice