Best vise

[fredy 0]

Need advice the best vise for beginner...

 

I have two option:

1. Renzetti traveler 2200; and

2. Griffin Mongoose.

 

If anyone know which one is the best... please info me....

 

thanks....

[canotstop24 0]

If you can, Go to your local shop and ask to tie on them and see which feels good to you. I just got a traveler and I like it but I haven't tied on the mongoose. The traveler is the 1st quality vise I have owed and it is a huge differance tying on it compared to a cheap $20 vise, which I have been using for the last 2 yrs. It is all personal preferance.

[JohnP 0]

Canotstop gave you some really good advice. Asking which is the best vise is sort of like asking which is the best dog or gun. Everybody thinks there's is. I upgraded from a Thompson Model A to a Regal Medallion this summer, and I absolutely love it. Rock solid hook hold with no monkeying around and the jaws are adjustable so I can examine the fly from various angles. Those were the features that were important to me. But really, your best bet is to test drive a few vises and find which one works best for you.

[day5 0]

the best way to answer this is what do you fish for and what flies do you fish and tie?

 

[Runarsson 0]

Can't say which one you will feel most comfortable with... but I can point out something you might want to look closer at when you're trying it. I bought my Mongoose without trying it. I wouldn't have bought it if I had tried it first:

 

A long cam arm (that also could have been closer to the jaws) steals a lot of free space under the hook, reaching out almost to the thread. (Little picture: These long jaws in that steep angle, together with the cam arm reaching out like that, makes it very hard to tie with the hook rotated to an up-side-down position.)

 

I have never tried the Renzetti Traveller, but based on my own experiences with the Mongoose, the Traveller's short jaws with no additional obstacles makes it look like Renzetti was the only one of them having ergonomy in mind by the drawing table.

 

 

/Nick

[utyer 0]

If your choice is limited to the two you have listed, then the Renzetti would be my advise.

[Wellman 0]

I own a Mongoose and I love it never had a problem with anything. I tie lots of patterns, small midges to large Walleye streamers. I never used a traveler before, and personally plastic and rubber bands don't excite me to get one either. As said before thy to vise before you buy it.

[Runarsson 0]

Something I would count as a minus on the Renzettis is that you seem(!) to need a separate tool to adjust the height of the jaws... screw driver or allen wrench. I would have prefered to see a thumb screw there. (Might be wrong on this. Have only seen pictures, not close-up.)

 

I don't think the material of a few parts would disturb me much. The plastic parts on the Mongoose didn't disturb me either. Even though the tip of its plastic cam arm took some beating from slamming into the bobbin cradle when it was tightened backwards, the irritation was still based on the fact that it was long enough to actually do it. The dents in it didn't make a difference to how it did its primary job.

To continue the Mongoose plastic path, I think replacing the old aluminum block with a delrin block and adding a delrin friction screw were bigtime functionality improvements... and so was adding the rubber ring at the back. The delrin block made the rotation smoother, the new separate delrin screw made the rotation drag adjustment better and the rubber ring stopped the wobbling handle part from unscrewing the knob at the back. I bought those parts for my own one and by adding plastic and rubber I cut a good portion from its annoyances.

 

If the name of the material doesn't make a negative difference in functionality, it doesn't matter much to me. I own a Danvise too and even though it's almost full-blown delrin, only a minor part of the disturbances I've found on it is actually material related. I bet the big delrin block on the LAW wouldn't bother me either... as long as it does its job the way I would want it to.