Been thinking about getting into jig tying. Anyone have a good estimate of startup costs and materials needed to get a good start?
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Been thinking about getting into jig tying. Anyone have a good estimate of startup costs and materials needed to get a good start?
$150 that's with a vise.
thats a good estimate, thats about what i have spent so far. of course it can get to be alot more depending on all the different options and colors you want to tryQuote:
Originally Posted by azslabber
It's not the start up cost that will get ya though. If you try and like it most likely you will become addicted, ask anyone here, and then you will spend a lot. The longer you tie the more you buy. Just not easy to resist so if you want to tie just because you want to then that's good, but if it's to save money tying your own, it's not going to happen.
Skip
LOL,how true.
skip hit it right on, a week ago i bought my initial 150 worth of stuff and now after recieving a few gifts from some fellow tyers i see all kinds of new stuff i want and am going to be spending a couple more hundred....LOL. just have to buy it in small portions so it doesnt sound like so much to my wife...LOL
I am in for around a hundred. But I am already wanting more stuff. It is fun and I like that I can create color combonations that I can not buy any where else. Once you start you will be addicted.
Okfishing,
Hey I know we have not met but we share the same great baitshop, so if you want I make my own jigs, I'm not the greatest at it. But if you want to met up some time let me know I can show you what all I have, and also where I get my stuff. Maybe we can sometimes go in on stuff to help save shipping!! Just let me know!! And if you take the time to invest to learn as I'm still learnin and as many would probably say you never stop learnin cause when you do its no longer fun and enjoyable!
AC
okfishing if u decide to buy in to jig tying u can buy a cheap vise from BPS for $30 and then just buy or order stuff as u need it and if u order stuff i recommend crazy angler he has the best stuff at the right price i ordered a bunch of stuff last monday on the holiday that we just had and by thrusday morning it was at my door step
thanks guys..gonna poke some cash back and experiment a little. AC we should get out and fish sometime since we are in the same area.
Powder paint and some of the other stuff can get a little costly, but if you show some restraint (yeah, right) you wont feel it too bad. I have a pretty nice vise, and want for nothing better as they go. Should you change your mind it can always be sold and most, if not all of your money recouped. The feathers and flash and thread and such don't cost much. I find it hard not to stop in to every outdoors store I pass, and I drive for a living. Each store has a bit of different stuff and regionally they differ also. When you're out pokin around stop in to out of the way places, or to someplace you don't get by much. If you don't buy anything you still get to look at stuff first hand. Pictures on line and magazines or catalogs are OK but in person beats all.Time it right and you might be in time for a fly tying class or something. The techniques transfer to the jigs and might make yours better than ours. Glad to see you started and welcome, always room for more.
okfishingfanatic,
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1perchjerker
Fanatic, if you're smart you'll listen to Perchjerker1. He's a standup guy and will help you get off the ground. He helped me a lot.
Be sure and check the stickies at the top of this forum. Some great suggestions are there for beginners lists and beginner jig videos. After that only your imagination and the size of your wallet contents will hinder you. Start with three or four tying concepts and get good at that. Then the only change will be materials and the final look and color of your jigs.
Once you get in two tying jigs. It's like skip said it's very addicting you'll find out because you be wanting all the pretty Chanel some feathers in the list goes on it doesn't quit. Then you got have all the pretty powder paint a course you have to have all the nice jig heads they got in course you got a have a fancy vice later on. Just don't do like I've done get hooked on tying jigs and making plastic baits then it really gets expensive and once you get hooked on plastics. It's buying all the molds. But if you do get into it you will enjoy it in it something that you are doing to please yourself. And also catch fish. It gets more exciting when you catch fish with your own hand tied jigs.