ORGANIZE MATERIALS I just recently bought the 8 drawer organizer at Sam's Club for $20. It stand about 5 ft tall. The top shelf I have my top shelf materials - the one's that are expensive. The short drawers are body material (dubbing), long feathers (ostrich, turkey, pheasant, peacock), synthetics (awesome hair, crystal flash, mylar piping). Then there are three deep drawers which I have Lure material (marabou, saddle hackles, rabbit strips), short feathers (mallard all colors, partridge, etc.), and the bottom is the UNGULATE drawer (deer, elk, moose, carabou, etc...)
ORGANIZE SPOOLS I took two 2x6 pieces of scrap wood. I then started hammering nails equally spaced and at a depth the spools would rest flush. One piece of wood has enough room for 30 spools of thread. The other one has 30 spoole of wire, tinsel, etc. ORGANIZE TYING AREA I took two pieces of colored sheet foam - I used yellow directly under my vice and green to the right of the yellow. This helps my identify all loose pieces depending on the hue - I put it either on the yellow or green. To the right, I have a stand alone tray which I keep my one-off's of material in...such as a stray saddle hackle which I use the barbules for..or a piece of green wire I will use when I tie more Copper John's... ORGANIZE HACKLE My saddles are on a ceramic FISH shaped candy tray (quite large) in back of the yellow foam. These are handy. ORGANIZE TOOLS I used a foam block and covered each side with foam with sticky back. The nice thing is that you can customize the tops with an exacto knife and push in many different shape. For example the same hole I have for Loon Hard Head, I can also push in Sally's hard head which is not a cylindrical shape. It is a lot cheaper than the Renzetti tool caddy and fully customizable...Try putting needly nose pliers in the RTC. I don't have one so maybe you can... The other thing is you can use whatever color you want. Mine is blue... ORGANIZE HOOKS AND BEADS I use 1 Flambeau box which is 6 x 4 - 24 squares. I typically have 2 sizes per category per box. This work quite well - the categories I have are: dry 18/20+; dry 16/14; dry 12/10; dry 8 and less; wet (1X) 18/16; 14/12;10/8 nymph (2-3X) 16/14; 12/10; 8/6 streamer (4X-6X) 14/12; 10/8; 6/4 Then I have one square for the following: salmon, bass, scud/egg, keel, sm bead, med bead, lg bead,tung bead, lead eyes, etc. OF course a Clip Board on the wall facing me. This is where i have hook charts, hatch charts, new patterns I get of the list, addresses for pending swaps, etc. I thought I would share this with anyone interested. I guess I might need to take pictures... What do others do?
