Just in case you were wondering - the vice is holding up very well and I must have tied around 75 flies on it so far from 14 -10 size.
But I have had to go back into the workshop - as I got really fed up with cutting 2inches of tinsel and throwing half of it away - the same applies to the floss and all the other bits needed to tie in.
There was also another problem - Pearsall's Gossamer bobbins are tiny - I tried a makeshift way of getting them to fit the normal bobbin holder but it came apart way too many times and wrapping thread back onto a tiny bobbin is not one of my favourite occupations. I hate wasting time !!
So Micro Bobbin holders here we are. I applied the same logic to making a hackle guage and then I found some old (empty) brass cartridges -a .44 and 9mm magnum - in a drawer and they looked ideal for a hair stacker. So that was my evening sorted
Hope you had a good one too.
C