Favorite hackle pliers

[DHise 0]

What are your favorite hackle pliers? I like the ones that dont cut the stem while I'm twisting it up. The C&F hackle plier is one of my favorites. I like C&F products. The Japanese sure know how to do things right.

[Par_Spot 0]

All of these "what is your favorite xyz" posts have got to stop! I keep discovering things I don't have. :help:

 

Or I suppose I could quit reading them...

 

Sorry for the hijack. Now back to your regularly scheduled posting...

 

Eric

[flykid 0]

I actually never use hackle pliers. I always seem to break the stem and I think I get more accurate wraps without them. I just use my fingers. May be if I had a better pair I would use them more.

[DHise 0]

You must not have big, fat FINGERS!

[Dezod 0]

I always use cheap almost everything... I tell myself that it's because I don't want to know what I am missing. I have a pair of cheap rotating hackle pliers that really helped me to keep my stems intact and the feathers on target.

 

C

[Guest]

I use the old English style pliers, I think I paid $1.00 for them.

[glm38 0]

I've never found a pair I like very well. most either slip or cut the hackle for me. I'll have to check out the C&F ones.

 

Greg

[Bert Brehm 0]

E-Z Mini Pliers

 

 

Similar to the Radio Shack test clips, except E-Z pliers don't fall apart while you are using them.

[troutguy 0]

I have used a DIEFFENBECH Artery Forceps Straight 6 cm (artery clamp) for years. No broken hackles. You do not see these in the average store.

 

 

DIEFFENBECH Artery Forceps Straight 6 cm

[Trad 0]

May be of interest;

 

http://www.mike1.bplaced.net/Wikka/HacklePliers

 

 

[sulfernut 0]

Like glm38, I have never found a pair of hackle pliers that I have been completely happy with. When Whiting started marketing saddle hackles in dry fly sizes,that are anywhere from 6 to 12 inches long,I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!! The best hackle pliers I can remember having were a pair of Thompson "Duplex" pliers,back when I first started tying. These had a rubber jaw opposite a serrated brass jaw,and gripped a hackle like sheer death!! ......Don't know what ever became of them!! I bought a "knock off" pair several years ago,burt they are not even close to being as good as the originals! These days,I'll bet I have 10 or 12 pliers,in every style imaginable. If I can't use my fingers,I just keep trying different pliers 'til I find one that won't cut the fearther I happen to be working with!!

 

Sulfernut

 

 

[Fly Tyer Guy 0]

Fingers, like was said in the other post, they're free.

[Seadog 0]

I use the old English style pliers, I think I paid $1.00 for them.

 

 

 

The same as TroutBum, but I paid about $1.80.

[DHise 0]

I want some of those artery forceps.

[maddog48 0]

I use the Radio Shack wire tester type and have never had a problem.

 

 

Mike