11-05-2006, 01:30 AM
I am not a pro fly tier by any stretch of the imagination. But I can see your main problem is that the desk is way to organized.
I keep my stuff in a variety of Tackle Logic, Plano, and Rubber Maid plastic boxes. I do this because they are convenient to close up and positively retain what is in the boxes. Besides being in a container that is not going to spill. I have them in these containers so that I can quickly gather them up and go over to friends houses for "Male Bonding" sessions where we tie flies together.
I have a long thin tackle box with adjustable compartments that I keep threads in. I have another long thin box with beads, cones, and hooks in (I keep all the hooks in little plastic bags. I make little card board labels or heavy paper labels to put inside the bags if I can not cut up the original container label. I got the bags from Hobby lobby plus I use the bags that Tiempco hooks come in) Having them in plastic bags is not always the most convenient but it makes it convenient to sift through bags to see what flys I have and not worry about spilling hooks and getting them all mixed up. The plastic bags mean you can keep a lot of hooks in a very small space.
I have a Plano Tackle box that has a top compartment and a bottom compartment. In the bottom go bobbins, bodkins, whip finisher. hair stackers, etc. In the top compartment are spools of flash, ribbing, wire, and some of other tools.
I have several Rubbermaid boxes that are deep with locking lids. I keep fur patches. kip tails, bucktails in a couple of them. I have another that has various hen and wet fly feathers in. I don't have anything for my dry hackle feathers, because the capes are so long, except a wooden tool box I lay them in.
When I go some where I have a couple soft bags I put all the boxes and vise in with a travel zenon light. The I slip all the dry fly hackles into one of the bags.
When they are not packed up for travel the boxes of stuff are strewn about.
I keep thinking it would be good to build a case with shelfs sized to slip all the plastic boxes into for storage next to my tying table and quick access. I would then get anal rententive and want all the boxes to be in just a couple of sizes and look about the same.
My tying table is the kitchen table. The xwife never complains to me about it.
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I keep my stuff in a variety of Tackle Logic, Plano, and Rubber Maid plastic boxes. I do this because they are convenient to close up and positively retain what is in the boxes. Besides being in a container that is not going to spill. I have them in these containers so that I can quickly gather them up and go over to friends houses for "Male Bonding" sessions where we tie flies together.
I have a long thin tackle box with adjustable compartments that I keep threads in. I have another long thin box with beads, cones, and hooks in (I keep all the hooks in little plastic bags. I make little card board labels or heavy paper labels to put inside the bags if I can not cut up the original container label. I got the bags from Hobby lobby plus I use the bags that Tiempco hooks come in) Having them in plastic bags is not always the most convenient but it makes it convenient to sift through bags to see what flys I have and not worry about spilling hooks and getting them all mixed up. The plastic bags mean you can keep a lot of hooks in a very small space.
I have a Plano Tackle box that has a top compartment and a bottom compartment. In the bottom go bobbins, bodkins, whip finisher. hair stackers, etc. In the top compartment are spools of flash, ribbing, wire, and some of other tools.
I have several Rubbermaid boxes that are deep with locking lids. I keep fur patches. kip tails, bucktails in a couple of them. I have another that has various hen and wet fly feathers in. I don't have anything for my dry hackle feathers, because the capes are so long, except a wooden tool box I lay them in.
When I go some where I have a couple soft bags I put all the boxes and vise in with a travel zenon light. The I slip all the dry fly hackles into one of the bags.
When they are not packed up for travel the boxes of stuff are strewn about.
I keep thinking it would be good to build a case with shelfs sized to slip all the plastic boxes into for storage next to my tying table and quick access. I would then get anal rententive and want all the boxes to be in just a couple of sizes and look about the same.
My tying table is the kitchen table. The xwife never complains to me about it.
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