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Well I haven't seen any thread like this and I don't mind giving up ideas to help people I thought it would be good to post pic's of thing's we've built to help us make jig's or uitilize space, so here's a 3 level rotary storage disspencer I built where I can see what I have and it maintian's it's straightness.:)
LOL...that's neat. This post could get interesting
Too many to post here. Check the pictures on my website. That is pretty good. I use the W.W. philosophy myself.....................Whatever Works.
Here are a few of the items I have made to help in tying jigs.
MY TOOL CADDY
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FLASH HOLDER
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DOUBLE FLASH HOLDER
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CHENILLE HOLDER & JIG RACK
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MY STAINLESS ROTARY VISE
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I was fixin to say you have to be a machinest or close to build the vise, I'm building a rotary like the Nor roughed the d2 jaws tonight gotta h/t them then on to the wire machine.
I've been machining for 20+ years and just like to build stuff. I looked at the nor-vise and thought very hard about making one of them but due to time I took the easier way out. It works great for making jigs but may be a little large for tying flies.
That vise is flippin sweet! I love to build stuff too. Although I tend to lean more towards woodworking as opposed to metalworking.
Here's the vise I built:
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Is that an Xacto knife handle??? That is a great idea and probably the most affordable vise out there. Way to use your head and make a neat vise. Great looking jigs too!!
Thanks, but I can't take claim for the idea. It is an Xacto knife handle. I saw somewhere about a guy teaching boy scouts how to make the vise and then tie flies.
That jig is the pattern I submitted for jig swap #5.
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Originally Posted by Slabologist
I really like your flash holders!Where did you get them?
Great ideas guys
Fatman
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Originally Posted by Len
those are some plastic tubes that I got from work. We package some parts in them and these were some they were throwing away. They are 3/4 & 1 inch in diameter. I just took a wood bit and drilled a hole in a piece of wood and shoved them in.
Those clear tubes kinda look like the tubes that some florescent lights come packaged in.
This thread rack has a 8"x12" foot print ,but it holds 180 spool's of thread right now it's got ultra floss,tinsel,70 and 210 on it in My favorite color's.
love the thread rack... i saw one post here awhile ago where someone built a portable tying station--talk about nice
OK FF46, I like the racks you built, got one in mind to build off your idea, but whats with the girly border on the walls of your tying room?????????:confused::eek::confused:
Well, at least you got somewhere to leave your stuff out I guess, gotta pull my stuff out of the closet and sit on the floor with a foot stool in front of me if I want to do anything! Some day I'm gonna finish my basement! :D Yeah, some day..................
I like light and airy color's it keeps My troubled mind at ease ?
Attica
One doesn't need a finished basement to tie a jig - you saw the pic I posted of my basement (in the swap thread) - I tie just to the left of the tables I was using to sort the jigs....my vise is attached to a board, c-clamped to my 'work bench' - a euphamism the the pile of cast-off boards and nails I do things on....
UG
Money being tight and times kind'a tough I went about the task of building My new rotary vise it's patterened after a inline rotary the jaws are D2 56 rockwell they have .0075 wide gripper serrations you can see them in 2nd pic does it work why sure.:)
That's a cool vise.How and where are you mounting it at.You have been very busy my friend. Now you need a bobbin holder,but I'm sure you have that in the works.I'd like to see this in action.
FF46
AWESOME - very nice vise. Really impressed.
I got an Old Friend Whom I never seen at least the last time I seen Him was when the Hog's ate My older Brother! anyway I built Him this custom 1/24 collar'est ball mold and included the new Fatboy minnow head in it it's a 1/12 on a 1/32 profile just thicker.
FlatFish, looks like you could mount on your boat, kinda looks like a seat mount and post. You can take orders right from the crappies, just post your menu on the side of the boat! :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS
I swear... you never cease to amaze me Flat. It just isn't fair that you got a double load of talent and mine just leaked out through my ears I guess at birth. You must be a hybrid human or something....bionic maybe...or a super hero that has decided to take up crappie fishin in his time off from saving the world...ah sorry ...Universe. I am glad that there are people like you around to figure stuff out for clodhoppers like me. You are truely an inspiration. Keep on 'sperimentin and lead us to the holy grail jig. Have fun playing Ironman...brim
Lots of great creative ideas here. Thanks for posting. I may have to imitate, duplicate and/or replicate some of them.
Is that a Alford E. Goulstien chennel bobbin Flat !:D:D:D:D
FF
That bobbin is waAay too cool - we have to talk.
Well I tell you Led it's the way to go on rotary vise's you can run 2 med. size colors at ounce and twist it for new patteren's plus it will not twist the chennel in a rotary which I hate when using the variated it throw's the patteren off.
FF
Where do you get the spools for your bobbin - if you don't mind me asking? Looks like a real money maker.
What next - hair stacker - bodkin - rotating hackle pliers???????
Did you make that mold from a DO IT Blank??? and how much would it cost!!!!!!!!!! When you get done pouring the ball heads do you cut them off or twist them off???
Fatman
The spool's are machined out of PET with a form tool the bobbin's are brass and copper fused together then it use's a coil friction clutch. on the mold it's a do-it blank cost don't know My friend supplied the blank with a ton of goodie's it'll take 3 month's to try it all and He has apair of form cutter's for the mold as well to keep the ball and mouth round.