OK guys I am new to this tying business and trying to set my work station up so that it is cohesive. Please post some pics of what your work stations look like so that I may start the brain storming on what are the must haves and the I like that's.
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OK guys I am new to this tying business and trying to set my work station up so that it is cohesive. Please post some pics of what your work stations look like so that I may start the brain storming on what are the must haves and the I like that's.
I built mine out of some old kitchen cabinets.
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Took an extra cabinet door and cut a 15 degree angle spaced at 1 inch for my chenille. Then I just hung it on the wall.
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The card board cement tubes at Lowes and a little spray paint make an awesome flash display. I put it on one of those cheap plastic plate spinners from Wally World. Bought a thread holder in the material and thread section at Wally World.
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Took another extra cabinet doors and made a tool display.
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A metal dowel with the name tag clips for badges works great for hanging bags in plain sight.
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Also used the name tag clips and screwed them to the inside of the doors. Door on the right are my ducks, door on the left are my arctic fox. Plastic drawers left top deer tails, bottom left craft fur, Chicken on the right.
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This is the messy times. Soon I'm adding yet another sections. An air brush booth, powder painting area, and another area for making spinners and bending wire.
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There's mine.
Bo
This is where I want to be in the long run .... I have a few of those items mentioned laying around and they wil lbe getting reperposed very soon thanks for the ideas
Here is some shots of my areas. I mainly pour jig heads now and do not tie as much as I use to. That is why my tying station looks like a small atomic bomb blew up in it. LOL
The first photograph is of my North wall in my tackle room. I am in the process of trying to find a work bench or a desk that I can put along this wall between the white cabinent on the left and the shelf on the right. When I find the desk/bench that I want, it will be where my tying station will be at and also where I will make bass lures and inline spinners.
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This is my West wall. This is where I do my pouring at. I have a 20# and a 10# furnace on this table. Also if you look behind the table and to the right. You will see a magnetic strip that I use to keep my pouring tools where I can get to them.
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This is the North Wall in the tackle room. At the moment my tying station is on an old typing table. I need to clean this thing up badly. I just never seem to remember until I sit down to tie a few jigs. LOL
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This is my East wall. It is where I keep all of the molds that I use for making jig heads and sinkers. It is kind of self explanatory. LOL Also in the three drawer plastic storage bins, I keep the tying supplies that I use for tying mostly.
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Hope this helps,
Bobo
Impressive stations.
You guys are way busier than I am. Nice stations. Qpassage, some real good ideas.
Great looking stations for sure.
I have 2 of these that everything fits in, carry them most everywhere I go.
Toolbox Organizer with 4 Drawers
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I may have to get something like that to store all of my wire forms, swivels, split rings and blades in. Great idea and thanks for sharing.
Bobo
Mine is so crammed in, it's not easy to really show, but here are a couple pics... So much of mine is hidden in these drawers or even in a few 5 gallon buckets under the desk, LOL! Wish I had a lot more room actually.
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Man I wish I had room for all that stuff .... may have to re think this tying thing or build a new shop LOL
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Makes my plastic shoe box look pitiful. Ha.
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I showed this to the wife and she said that I could get one for all of my misc tackle making material. I know I said it before, but thank you for sharing this. It will help me a lot in getting my stuff as organized as I would like it to be.
Bobo
That would be a good tackle box to keep in the truck with misc lures or plastics for when the mood hits... I appreciate the post also (a lot cheaper than same size tackle box for sure)
Glad you like the storage box.
I wish some of the trays had different size compartments. Hate to use a hot knife on them.
My tying station has grown into a long work bench with my tying station first
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Then my wire bending/air brushing station
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And my powder painting station last
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The rollers on my office chair gets a lot of work out running from one end to the other
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A finial pic of the room. This use to be a game room until I bought my first order of tying materials, this hobby doesn't have a bottom and it will eat at you to order more!!! :)
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Last time at Lowe's I saw some different size storage containers and we got several sizes for me to put stuff in and have not used them yet. But I do like these cheap containers of different sizes like these.
Shop Style Selections 30-Gallon Tote with Standard Snap Lid at Lowes.com
now I did get more smaller that the one shown above, but what ever size you need they have it!
I get the shoe box size plastic containers, about a dollar each. Watch after the rush for school supplies and pick up a multi pack on clearance.
Just because you have a more confined tying set up doesn't necessarily mean that is a bad thing. I think the others will agree a bigger tying set up is much more to keep up with. I probably spend a good 3-4 hours a week just staying on top of the mess. When it gets so deep you start loosing things it's clean up time. I had 15 jigs tied and ready to ship this morning and wouldn't ya know it. I couldn't find them this morning. Lo and behold tonight is clean up the tying room night.
Well we finally finished putting it together. LOL Catherine surprised me today with a little gift. I was completely shocked but now I think it is the coolest thing since sliced bread.
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I have been trying to rearrange the room. LOL
Bobo
Sweet Bobo!!
I have now gotten it a bit cleaned up and straightened the room up also.
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Bobo
Nice looking work center Bobo.
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I need a little storage/barn for my gear.....nice!
good pic's very helpful
Anything to do with heat or odor is done in the grudge. Add an airbrush set up that the wife gave me for Christmas, so now I paint cranks and stuff also. I'm liking this good weather, I can get out there and fool with it all. Got enough jigs and supplies til the next millennium.
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Do you have any suggestions on where to get air brush paint and something that will teach someone how to use them properly? I have one, but My mother is the artist when it comes to painting. I have a new casting spoon mold that I would love to be able to paint in a realistic way.Quote:
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BucktailJiger, It is awesome to see another fan of the Regal vices.
Tight lines,
Bobo
I do like my Regals ! I tried a lot of differant vises and just couldn't find the one . About quit tying . Then one day I thought I'd try one more , pulled the trigger and got the Stainless Jaws from Regal , when I got them I thought to myself what have I done !!!??? It was huge heavy but had a simple design and function . Hold a hook and rotate the hook 360 . No adjustments squeeze the lever and place a hook in the jaws and tie a jig or bug . It didn't take long to adapt to the vise , it has a large platform to rest your hand on while tying in materials . Aquired the Big Game Jaws late spring of last year for tying heavy 3/4oz large ought hook jigs for the Big River and Lakes .
But it boils down to each persons choice for their vise , mine is and always will be Regal .