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Sonny Edmonds

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About Sonny Edmonds

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    2009
  1. And that's the bottom line. Too much of this stuff is designed to catch fishermen, not fish.
  2. Good to know, Lance. Thank You. Now I am wondering if anybody thinks like me and is willing to modify what they have to do what they want the tool to do? I'm interested in tying "buggy" sorts of fly's, like what I grew up with. The Adams and Elk Hair Caddis' are two I know I used in my youth. I could see gently modifying the small jaws into a more graceful tip if need be before actually springing the $98 for the kit. But I'm going to wait, I have to, tracking sez tomorrow is the delivery date. I've been checking every day, (twice a day,) at the UPS site. Uhh.. no, I'm not anxious... :wallbash: Clarification: I have a shop full of tools for wood working. I didn't buy any one tool until I could see a second, or more way's, I could use it in my shop. I've never been above modifying something to get to where I wanted to be with it. Like Harley's and Hot Rods, it isn't yours until you make it yours. And yep, I slicked up the $29.95 vise I am currently using. But like a stream, I have somewhere I am going.... Thanks again, Lance.
  3. I just finished a couple of Hat Pins for the Father In Law for Fathers Day. Nothin Fancy, just some whimsical #2 hooks with a Wooley Booger, and a variation with red chenille I named a "Bloody Booger". The twist is... you tie a small to middlen safety pin to the shank first, then tye on the other stuff of your choice. Once it is pinned to the side of the hat the fluff covers up the safety pin and the hook is fully exposed for view from the underside of the "fly". Kinda fun and a way to use some otherwise crappy materials. (OK, crappy in my opinion...) OK, back to tiny fly's.
  4. Wow! Thanks everybody! OK, going down in size then, message received loud and clear. Note to self: Look for a very portable microscope for stream side tying on of fly's to tippet's. Meanwhile.... back to the vise. Thank You!
  5. Thanks, Mike. Yes, it is fun. The challenge lies in doing it. I enjoyed tying it but when done I thought will it hold long enough to land one? I have 39 more of them from 18 to 22 to play with. Skeeters, I guess I'll make skeeters with them. Kinda hard for an old fart with big hands... :wheelchair:
  6. Fiddeling around with some tiny hooks that arrived today I tied a #22 hook up. Now I am wondering if a trout would even see the darned thing! I dought my old eyes could even tye it on a leader. I just wanted to try it. Two elk hairs, some peacock herl, and a little olive thread. Looks too small to catch much more than a minnow. You guys tye tiny fly's for the fun of it? Or do you actually fish with them? Just curious.
  7. Hemostats. Often you can find them at swap meets or flea markets. Then have the boys mount them to a base like an inverted C-clamp to get some height. Electrical tape comes to mind. or rubber bands even. Simple. Keep it simple. It's meant to let them try it. My first fly's as a child were actually that, fly's. I'd catch them and mount them on a small hook and varnish them. They looked real because they were. Didn't work worth a chit. But who cares? I was having fun and using my wild imagination. I was using one of my dad's bench vises in the shop.
  8. Long as it takes. Sometimes till past bedtime.
  9. So Brent... What IS your beef? Why don't you tell your experiance? What do you tye on?
  10. Thanks JRG. 14/0, and the automatic bobbin didn't give you fits? Datsa really fine tyin! I'm not sure my old eyes could begin to thread a hook that small onto a leader, even with my desk magnifier. :dunno: Is the spring mechanism adjustable for the different thread weights? (Much as drag is for different sized leaders/line) Seems to me there would be range that works best, and the extremes at either end would suffer. I'm pretty specific and narrow minded in what I want to tye ultimately. So I'm working towards that end, my favorites are between 10-20 hook sizes, and Adams, and Elk hair Caddis', as I target stream fishing for pan sized trout when I'm wading. (High Sierras, Eastern) I don't normally use fly fishing for bass at the Colorado River were we take two of the Grand Kids on Easter vacation, but watching the large mouths rise and jump before dawn this last spring rekindled my fly fishing fire. Lots has changed since the 1960's and now in the fishing world. And a lot of what I've seen appears to target buyers, not fish. I like the old time fly's the best, not the glitz stuff. I don't go fishing to catch fish, I go for the fun of it and being in nature. I get a much bigger kick out of watching the kids fight and land fish than catching them myself anymore. But the adrenalin rush of the swirl and the zing of the hook-up when a fish takes a fly is something I want to share with my grand kids that do fish with me. Anyway, Thanks for sharing your experiences with the Nor-Vise with me. Real soon I will be able to reciprocate and ask more intelligent questions, hopefully.
  11. I'm a quick study when it comes to machinery. I've been researching rotary vises for a while and trying to see why one (ANY one) should be in my tooling. Seems that most tiers don't even use the rotary feature in what ever type of rotatable vise they have. I thought that was interesting. Very interesting. Then I looked into the Nor-Vise. Makes perfectly good sense to me, and no wonder those other vises aren't holding up to true rotary tying. They aren't made for it. Their rotational mass isn't built to spin. Turn, yes, but not spin. So I ordered mine. I didn't even get through all of Norm's video's before I ordered one from J. Stockard. Being as I know and appreciate fine equipment, I expect to not be disappointed. I like seeing you fellow tyers are happy with yours.
  12. Well bud, it's real enough for my needs. I don't need something to stroke my ego. But hey, if your little chicken picken makes you feel good, stroke on. I was asking for input from actual users of the Nor-Vise. But heck, there always seems to be one of your kind ready to stick a foot in the door. I tye and fish for fun, found what I think is the right vise for me, and bought it. Opinions are like A'holes, everybody has one so pull your pants back up. Like I said, go tye flies. And sure, I'll be glad to post about how it works out for me. But what works (or doesn't) for me is really no reflection on your ability (or lack of) to succeed with the same tooling. I just asked for input from actual owners/users. Not your scratch.
  13. Then? 1962? That'd be me sticking tiny hooks in real flys and coating them with varnish. (Didn't stay on them hooks) Now? 2009? That'd be a foam beetle, San Juan Worm, Fur Ant, yadda, yadda, yadda.
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