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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Delaney Sent: Saturday, 30 July 2005 3:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VFB] Taught Me a Lesson Ed, I just love your website with the simple tools and devices for fishing and tying. My Thompson is 18 years old and still works fine...I've been "attempting" to learn how to tie with a rotary vise, that's why my wife bought me the Danvise for our anniversary three years ago...old habits die hard though...i find that whenever I should have used the rotary function, I've done it the way I've always done it... Mark Delaney On 7/29/05, edward s engelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a recent visit to the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum in > Livingston Manor, NY I saw a display of old vises. > > One of them indeed was a vise grip that had been welded to a steel rod and > was held to a table with a clamp! > (I can send out a pic. if interested.) > > I have tied on vise grips and hemostats (aka kelleys) and taught my daughter > as I was learning myself. > > I am comfortable tying on these simple tools and continue to build and > design simple vises. > > It is where I live. At a recent demonstration of one of my uniqe vises, a > commercial tyer told me that he still uses his old Thompson to tie the flies > he sells. It is all about what works for you!!! > > Ed Engelman > -- > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: Mark Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:36:12 -0500 > Subject: Re: [VFB] Taught Me a Lesson > > > You tie on what you can afford to staret with...There are a bunch of > > cheap vises around the house, some get used, some don't. The one > > I've tied most of my flies on though is an old Thompson Model A, > > which has served me well, and now resides up in my office, in case I > > get the urge...at home I use a Danvise, my spare is a Sunrise > > (Indian) while my wife likes her Sunrise (she ties a few flies but > > into making earrings and such more than flies.) If she wanted she > > could borrow the Danvise, but she likes what she's got. > > > > The first fly I tied as a kid, the vise was my Dad's vise grip > > (they'd just come out) and for head cement I used a glue that was called > > Liquid Rubber (white stuff). That little streamer caught a bunch of > > bluegills for me, trailed behind a bobber on a spinning rod. > > > > Mark Delaney > > > > On 7/28/05, Chuck Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Folks: That messed up vise has taught me a lesson.... From now on (if I > can > > > any way afford it) I am ONLY going to buy things made in a FIRST world > > > nation.... Geez.... This Cheap MADE stuff gets old huh????? Chuck > > > > -- > > "So much water, so little time!" > > > > http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > -- "So much water, so little time!" http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html
