Tying in the recliner

[358 0]

My wife wouldn't allow it either.  She says it would junk up the living room and apologies to Byron for the oversite.

 

[chugbug27 0]

Byron you got woodworking mojo, great setup, nice looking table, and efficient and functional 

[Bryon Anderson 0]

19 hours ago, 358 said:

My wife wouldn't allow it either.  She says it would junk up the living room and apologies to Byron for the oversite.

I don't think my wife loved mine either, but I had already built her a jigsaw puzzle table, so she couldn't really refuse... 😄 

 

 

[Bryon Anderson 0]

12 hours ago, chugbug27 said:

Byron you got woodworking mojo, great setup, nice looking table, and efficient and functional 

Thanks Chugbug! I'm still tying on that desk, although I don't have the recliner anymore. I like it, but I didn't think the storage compartments all the way through. The tops make a great place to put extraneous items while tying, but then I'm forever having to clear one of them off so I can open the top to get new materials out. Now that I have a dedicated tying space in my home office, I'm planning on making a larger "floating" desk....one of these days.

[niveker 0]

26 minutes ago, Bryon Anderson said:

I had already built her a jigsaw puzzle table, so she couldn't really refuse...

Smooth move there.  

[chugbug27 0]

Floating desk?

[Bryon Anderson 0]

57 minutes ago, chugbug27 said:

Floating desk?

"floating" as in anchored only to wall studs; exterior carcase supported by an invisible interior bracket. Something along these lines, but customized for fly tying. 

The design in my head would swap out those two deep drawers for 2-3 shallower drawers per slide...built-in tool organizer and areas for material prep/staging, etc. We'll see what actually gets built though...

[Bryon Anderson 0]

2 hours ago, niveker said:

Smooth move there.  

Thank you, sir 😁

[chugbug27 0]

Cool.

[Gios 0]

I tie mine down stairs in my fly tying room (Hobby Room) is and have a book on tape or music on

[Gene L 0]

I looked up the Mayflier vise, got a post from 2016 in Classic Fly Rod Forum.  (misspelled as Mayflyer.)  At any rate, it's the same vise or appears to be. Got a lanyard to tie it around your neck.  The accompanying photo shows a smallish vise of indeterminate size jaw with a curvey stem for some reason.  The photos of the Mayflier on this forum makes it a very expensive vise.  Especially with the bronze base. 

[chugbug27 0]

$99 new old stock on eBay....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/386173474643?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=bkhzfh8oqs2&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=szQHXX2gQ-e&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[Gene L 0]

What a deal!  I wonder when the vise was made.  Price of the original indicates maybe 1980 or so?  

[flyflinger 0]

That actually, without seeing details, looks to be a fairly good quality vise for the money, bronze base, etc . . . and made in the USA!  

Regards,

 

[niveker 0]

 

1 hour ago, flyflinger said:

That actually, without seeing details, looks to be a fairly good quality vise for the money, bronze base, etc . . . and made in the USA!  

Agreed.

 

I believe that seller on the auction site is the guy who invented the vise. 

Wonder how many he's got in stock.