Re: [VFB] Displaying collections of flies

Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:31:24 -0700

Pete, in my gallery all the flies are either in wine corks, (one to a cork, sometimes more but rarely) or in drift wood, or in the business or personall card of the tyer who tyed them, or they are in fly boxes of one kind or another. And i must have every type fly box known to man-kind, lol. The gallery has only 8 shelves, which are guite long.......but they can only hold so much. Therefore three of those shelves have nothing but fly boxes full of flies on them. One of those (shelves) being the CFTG "collection." The other 5 shelves have the files i've tyed, some commercial flies for sale, and the "Cards Collections." Then there is also a big fly box with fishing flies (i tyed) for sale, and a table covered with flies i've tyed, and flies others have tyed, mostly salmon flies. In the house are 40 to 50 pieces of art work that have flies in them, (either showdow boxed in with a painting or simply mounted alone) and a collection of Salmon flies individually mounted/shadow boxed. Then there's the tying room, but ................LMAO. In my fishing truck is a LOT of flies as well........mostly just for fishing, swap flies, and more salmon/steelhead flies. I'm kinda running outta room in a way, but i always find more room somehow. We're thinking of putting an addition on the house. We have about 75 other pieces of fly fishing artwork on our walls that don't have flies in them as well, so we need more wall space. And then there's the Jazz photos and artwork................jeeze. It IS a bit outta hand........LOL. mark.....


From: Jeff Frye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [VFB] Displaying collections of flies
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:59:54 -0700 (PDT)

Here's one idea. You can arrange them in a fly box
bottom and type out a diagram of which is which,
laminate it and place in the top of the box.

Here's another idea. I just did this for my collection
from the Mega Mayfly Swap that I hosted. I bought a
barnwood shadowbox, glued black posterboard to the
inside back. I then spray painted 25 small bottle
corks black and hot glued them to the poster board in
the arrangement I wanted. Stick the hook tip in the
corks in a pleasing arrangement, put into the
shadowbox and enjoy.

Another idea I've seen is to sand and polish an old
piece of driftwood, drill tiny holes for the hooks and
display them that way.

Hope that helps. -Jeff



--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> Hi, everyone!
>   After a brief time of being away (for personal
> health reasons) and such, I'm back around here.
>   I have a question for the group:  How do you store
> your swap flies or other display-able flies so that
> they can be displayed with the proper
> identification/ toe-tag slip?  I find that the
> toetags get jumbled, if not lost, when I use an
> opened foam-based flybox.  Just curious, is all, as
> it is a real shame to have them in an "altoids" tin
> that is closed on a shelf somewhere...  I've heard
> of mounts/ shadowboxes, but can't find a source.
>   Take care all, and hopefully I can get out fishing
> for the first time in a little over a month!  I'm
> foaming at the mouth already... tricos... ahhh...
> Pete
>
>
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