What Vise do you use?

[mfpdflies 0]

Hi, I used- Tvrdek Vices-Top quality this vise!!!

[hikefar82 0]

I just got a Peak, I love it. My other vise is a Anvil Apex.

 

 

[chromeseeker 0]

i use a griffin odyssey,cam lock rotary.no problems.

[Mickalo 0]

I just picked up a Griffin odyssey spider vise myself last week and it's a great vise, handles the larger hook sizes, no problems.

 

Mike

[Fred H. 0]

just got an Apex Anvil. This is the first vise I have bought that I actualy had in my hands before I purchased it. Buying from a catalog is not my prefered way to purchase tools of any kind. This is a rock solid little vise great for traveling and has the perfect range of function to match my style of tying. It was if the vise was made just for me.

[DrVette 0]

Since i started tying durring an elective class when i started middle-school i had to come up with my own vise...i built my first vise (or should that be vises since they didn't last long) by glueing 2 pop-cicle sticks on either side of a third that was held up-right by what ever i had at hand. I would wrap a rubberband around the 2 sticks very tightly to hold the hook and begin tying. These were realy great for the woolyworm styles tied onto staight-pins that we shot at each-other through milk straws...like i said...middle-school. The next year i took woods class and our library got a copy of the "Curtis Creek Manifesto", so i made a vise out of antler as shown in there. But it didn't last long either when trying to torque down a very small hook. I still have the Thompson C vise that a freind of my Grand-father handed down to me when it was sitting broken on his shelf(i think it was made in the 50s?)...a couple of hours and some screeming later i managed to grind down a nail to replace one of it's cam pins and used it for years. In college i wandered into a real fly-fishing shop in Denver with my fishing pal proffesor and found one of the early Regal vises...It is still going strong after 20years of occational use. And very recently i bought a complete Norvise system from ebay after enjoying one of his auto-bobbins that some-one gave me years ago. I just can't seem to get the idea of rotating the hook... so i still like my Regal better but maybe that will change if i can get the hang of this new way of tying...I have only tied about 10 flies on the Norvise...funny how they look like those from my middle-school days and brought back those memories.

[JackScott 0]

Very Interesting!! I would have expected Dyna-King to have a bigger piece of the pie!!

J.S.

[Joni 0]

I had a Regal for awhile but it was hard for me to squeeze the jaws, specially when trying to insert a #32 hook.

I have been using a Renzetti Traveler for many years and what a vise. I still use it on occasion but my newest vise, does everything I want plus more.

I tie at allot of shows, so one thing is this Vise attracts attention. It is very functional and even if I can't suction it down the base is large enough to hold. But I can stick it to anything including my windshield when out in the field.

 

 

I have both sets of jaws and the streamer jaws are a hole. They hold BIG hooks better than anything I have ever used. The Midge jaws, #32 are no problem. I even make a bobbin holder out of a coat hanger so it can be a rotary vise as well. Two different flies at the same time....I love it!

 

 

 

[RoyGPA 0]

I just bought a Peak vise with the gift that my company gave me for working there for 25 years.

[shooter 0]

peak

[Mr. Steelhead 0]

I started with a Danvise and then got a Peak. Now I have a Ron Abbey Signature Dyna King. Can not fault any of them, but really do enjoy the Dyna King.

[DELTA FORCE 0]

I said other but use a dyna-king

[Roll Q___Cast 0]

Like many others newbies here I also started with one of those kit vises and found it Peaked my interest in tying before it was retired due to the purchase of an upgrade. I was fortunate to find a used Dyna-King - Barracuda Jr. at a reasonable price almost a year ago and am still learning new uses for the rotary/indexing capability it possesses.

 

I Fly-tie for the relaxation; Flyfish for the freedom; Cast to the challenge; Land if I'm so blessed and Release to re-live it ALL!

[r.p.degraaf 0]

I use a Danvise, does everything I want it to. Agree with most about limited space behind the head.

Think I'll try the extension arm.

Holds big pike streamer hooks / steelhead and salmon sizes as well as size 20/22 small dries and nymphs (I dont go smaller for fear of going nuts)

I only use the pedestal base.

 

[Trad 0]

I use several. Depends what I am dressing.

 

TL

MC