Perhaps it will help you to know that when you are going to do the
whip finish with your hand, you can simply flip the scissors so that
the points are backwards facing your arm, or you can simply drop one
of the loops of the scissors and keep it on your little finger while
you do the whip finish with the rest of your hand. I carry a simple
(happens to be a Griffen Patriot) vise with a weighted base in the
trunk of my car along with a thrift shop, used, fabric briefcase which
has a few dubbings, pheasant tail, bobbin, thread in red, olive and
black, some 16, 14, 12 and 10 hooks in a pill box, peacock herl and
some silver and gold tinsel, pearl Krystal flash. that's it. You can
tie quite a few patterns with that tiny assortment. I simply set the
vise on the seat of the truck or in the back and tie on my knees.
As to the bent handles on the scissors, that is easy to do and
really helps fit scissors to your hand. put the scissors in a vise
with the screw that holds the pieces together well inside the vise and
also about 1/2 inch of the handles in the vise. Then put on a clamp
and pull the loops towards you until you have about a 30 degree angle.
Or, if you know someone in a machine or autobody shop who has a brake
for bending metal..have them bend it for you. I find that this really
helps scissors fit to the hand.
Good luck on your streamside kit. One word of advice, be sure that
you don't put anything in your streamside kit that you'd miss a lot if
it were stolen. People see you use it and they will break into your
truck and steal it sometimes..so tie quietly and in secret. I speak
from experience here. Let us know how you do. Joyce
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Larry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Roger: Small scissors. If they don't fit, do what Joyce has done. When we
> were tying for the boy scouts last week, she showed me how she had the
> handles on her favorite scissors bent at an angle so they fit further in her
> hand. Her hands are small, and I know that she seldom sets her scissors
> down. My hands are much larger, but I keep my scissors in my hand, and I can
> even use my Thompson whip finisher with my scissors kept in my hand. Saves
> lots of time. Sorry this digressed. I know it started as a stream-side
> tying thread...
>
> Larry Johnson
> Springville, Utah
>
>
>
>>>> "Rodger Oleson" <[email protected]> 8/3/2010 9:18 AM >>>
> Anthony Spezio wrote:
>
> With the scissors in hand and making the whip finish done by hand a lot of
> time is saved when tying a lot of flies.
> Sounds great,Tony,Joyce and all. I've been trying to learn to hold my
> scissors and do a whip finish for the past year. Seems I can do one or the
> other, but either slows down my already tortoise-speed tying. :-[ Is there
> some secret or does it just require practice and a bit of manual
> dexterity...practice I can handle, but......:-(
>
> Rodger O.
>
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