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The boys and I are pumped!
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The boys and I are pumped!
Well you look ready now! Congrats!
You're set!!!! FOR NOW!!! LOL! Now, look at these 2 video's
Walleye wabbits scroll to Post #8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1TPCZqXrRY for "Brush-Tapping" powder paint
They both helped me a bunch. Have FUN!!
well Tony you have done it now, you will love sitting down to all that new stuff and working with all of the new colors, but before you know it you will be buying more and more, its an addictive hobbie I've been doing it for a couple years and my supply is more than two people would need
again great collection and have a lot of fun
as your boyz learn and tie their own jigs, take their new ties and a camera fishin with you, the smiles will be priceless
have fun guys
Tony it looks like you have enough material to really enjoy learning to tie. It is a great art to learn and very rewarding when you start catching fish with the tyes you tie. Take your time and enjoy each section you spend at your tying bench. Good luck and congrats! :) Look forward to seeing some of your work.
Actually looks like a pretty good kit!!! alot of them aren't. I see one thing you're really going to want to get and that's more bobbins!!!!!!!!!LOL it gets to be a pain changing thread out.
I have to get at least 2 more vises, two more bobbins (at least) and two more pairs of scissors or I may never get to tie a jig. This morning, as the boys left for school, they were working out a schedule for this afternoon in regards to who gets to use the equipment after school. :Doh:
I ordered the kit but then augmented it with stuff I figured I would need. I doubled the price of the kit constructing my own custom kit... :biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Fatman
Kind of thought this may happen. I would use the one I have for a bit so you can decide what kind to get next. I would suggest a Rotary vise, but not a cheap one which makes it a bit harder on the pocket book, but worth every penny and I feel sure a lot of guys here will tell you the same thing. My thinking is when you know this is something you will do a long time, get good tools! Oh and have more than one pair of scissors, one for cutting hair and one for the rest of stuff as hair will take a toll on the cutting edge of them.
YES, definitely more bobbins, scissors and an applicator bottle for the head cement (I didn't see one in the kit). You're gonna have a BLAST, especially with 2 boys getting into it too. You're a BLESSED man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatman
To late now, but this is very addictive hobby!
Get you a set of hackle pliers. That way you can look at em, just like the rest of us, and wonder what the heck they're good for. And a couple more bobbins, definitely. And when you find a good one, let me know what kind it was. I love tying jigs, its very addicting, but very rewarding when you catch a limit on a jig you made the night before.
I felt the same way about hackle pliers, and I got a good rotating hackle plier with my first kit and gave it as a gift to the Swapmiester of my 1st jig swap. Then I entered a swap where the theme was jigs targeting Blue Gills and I tied a Red Ant I killed them with when I was a kidQuote:
Originally Posted by dblevens
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I then saw just what a hackle plier was good for. As for a really good bobbin, I have 6 ceramic tipped bobbins I bought from CrazyAnglerTackle.com and @ only $4, they are TERRIFIC!! Just sayin.
Having tied a ton of olive wooly buggers back when I used to fly fish with my dad, I know my way around a set of hackle pliers.
I didn't buy any because I figured I wouldn't need them for crappie jigs, however, having seen Pepop's red ants, I may need pick some up!
Tony I do a good many with a collar and plan on doing some more things with my thing to keep looking for Fly Patterns I can transfer to a jig. I also have a DVD by a guy that does what is called rope dubbing and he made a bunch of samples I keep trying to get to do more of and that is all fly tying based.