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Index => Fly Tying => Topic started by: Mike Barrio on 25/11/2013 at 23:42
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How's about this one from Mauro Caracalli in Italy ....... pretty awesome :z16
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Very nice indeed. I am sticking with my Apex Anvil although I fancy the rotary version. Its lasted 7 years which is not bad for something that routinely holds hooks from 4/0 down to 18.
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hmm...that certainly looks like a beauty mike.
i've been using a cheapo vice for the last 4-5 years. I have to say i've not really felt like i needed any thing else! the jaws have finally started to show a little wear though and don't grip smaller hooks quite as well. I suppose i'll be looking for an apex or something similar soonish. I will miss tying on a 20 quid vice though, when others spend hundreds and never use them properly!
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that thing might be nice to start a fire.... :z4
got this a month or so ago. seriously excellent :z16
http://www.flytyingboutique.com/product.cfm?product=1197#.UpRpcJFhyRo
marc
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hmm...that certainly looks like a beauty mike.
i've been using a cheapo vice for the last 4-5 years. I have to say i've not really felt like i needed any thing else! the jaws have finally started to show a little wear though and don't grip smaller hooks quite as well. I suppose i'll be looking for an apex or something similar soonish. I will miss tying on a 20 quid vice though, when others spend hundreds and never use them properly!
Like Rob,
I have been using an Apex for many years now and earlier this year I managed to break it. Rob reminded ne that it comes with a lifetime warranty and sure enough it was replaced immediately. Great service for a vice which although it is not 20 quid it is also not too expensive. I tie everything from tiny dries to salt water patters on mine and apart from breaking, probably operator error it has never let me down.
Eddie. :z18
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I have a regent this does every thing I need I have had it about 10yrs with no problems, I would certainly buy another, easgach 1
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Last three years just NOR-VISE. Full with all four models of jaws. I never use better jaws - "Large Straight Jaws" for big hooks, rely BIG hooks.
And unique SEMI AUTOMATIC (or automatic) BOBBIN is the top FT products!
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How's about this one from Mauro Caracalli in Italy ....... pretty awesome :z16
So that's how "Kevin Muir" translates in Italian is it? I'd always wondered :z4
Veniard #4 spring lever or the Scottie vice of similar design. Either is fine, they hold a good range of sizes and grip / release them instantly.
Cheers
Ben
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I got a Dyna-king Supreme last trip home a nice xmas pressie for me I love I love it. It has helped me tie better but i'm still rubbish
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The vice in the first post is mingin'! I don't like that at all. Beautifully made I'm sure but slap me with a brookie, it is fugly.
I use a Veniard pedestal vice that I bought in 1995 from Murray's tickle and bums in Banchory, now a different shop entirely.
The base is very heavy and the jaws are very hard. I think 18 years of hard service is testament enough for it's reliability. No fancy adjustable head, wind up handles on the back or other fancy bits, just a vice with well made brass bits and good old steel.
Me likee old skool. :z4
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Nothing wrong with Old School :z4
Cheers
Mike
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The vice in the first post is mingin'! I don't like that at all. Beautifully made I'm sure but slap me with a brookie, it is fugly.
I use a Veniard pedestal vice that I bought in 1995 from Murray's tickle and bums in Banchory, now a different shop entirely.
The base is very heavy and the jaws are very hard. I think 18 years of hard service is testament enough for it's reliability. No fancy adjustable head, wind up handles on the back or other fancy bits, just a vice with well made brass bits and good old steel.
Me likee old skool. :z4
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Euan,
I have one of those in the back of my landie which is older than yours and although it is a bit beat up it is still functional.
Eddie. :z18
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Euan,
I have one of those in the back of my landie which is older than yours and although it is a bit beat up it is still functional.
Eddie. cheers
They are workhorses Eddie. I can't imagine how many flies I've tied on mine, of all sizes, #0/2 to #28!
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Happy with my early Christmas prezzie. Regency Regal, stainless jaws, bronze travel base, very nice. :z16
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Hi!
I use Regal vice :z14
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In 1964 I visited a Mrs. Shiach, in Elgin, who was the widow of the head gillie at Ballindalloch on the Spey, for the purpose of buying her late husband's shotgun. Along with the gun she threw in a box of old fishing tackle which included a scissors type , brass and steel, fly tying vice.
Prior to this I had been tying flies using only my fingers as detailed in the 1952 edition of T.R. Henn's book "Practical Fly Tying".
The vice which I was given was made around 1890 by a company called HOLTZAPFFEL who made ornamental lathes, and the vices were a factory spin off. I understand queen Victoria owned such a vice.
This vice served me well for over 40 years until I graduated to a vice with a rotating head. I realized the old vice may be collectable, and so sent it to a Mullock & Madeley antique tackle auction in 2004. It sold for £190. That was my favorite vice!