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oh my, the "let's eat, grandpa" made me laugh. Yea, one little comma makes a huge difference. LOL

Vicente, it's probably all the porn and viruses attached to the picture is wy it loaded slow. Sorry. Just kidding, theirs probably no viruses. Theirs, uh there's, uh the're's ,, uh,, Mike!! help me out here bro..

Heavey nets looks like he will pass his kwiz.

Yo Vicente,,,,,,,,,,,FURST, I du makanicul engineering. Machines for the plastics extrusion industry. Siding and pipe. Tuns of punches and shear devices for siding. Is wy I no a little about steels and hardening. Cecond, They can. their is a fine line between hard and brittle. Testing!! it just takes testing. I say maybe a little less on the heet treet Rc. hardness and a surface hardening treatment. Like shot peening. Different types of tool steels at different hardnesses. It can be done. I have made several vises. The best jaws I have so far, I wood say, are D2 tool steel, heat treated to 56-58 Rc. Then they were peened to give the metal a micro rough surface and it can surface harden too. Then industrial chromed. Not beauty chrome like on a car. This stuff is HARD. The peening gives it a better surface to interlock to the metal. Then peened again with another chrome over that. Now they won't rust. Hard, not brittle, no rust, and the micro texture I swear grips the hook. I have NO slipping in those jaws. AT ALL!!! If you were to enlarge the jaws you would see almost a sandpaper like texture. Satin finish. LOw glare too. or is that to , or is that two. Help Mike. See pic. LOL MIke.

No it will not Mike. It's an engineering kwiz, wrather than/ then an English/grammer/composition kwiz. I Doug, sooooooo totaly addmmit that my riting and gramer scills suk!! Yu can Stil undrstand exaktly wat I meen wheather I spel It korect or not. Then, Than, tomato, tomoto, radish, cucumber,, I don't kair ... LOL...I'm from Kansass Mike, give me a friken brake bro. Every one no's peeple from Kansass kain't reed or rite. Geeze! How rood! I also addmmit that from now on I will porpusly mispell and use krummy gramer just to bug you Mike. LOL...Never show your weekness bro. LOL,,,,mine is oviously my composition scils. PEECE, OUT!

OK. Just a little lesson on metallurgy. Typically, if metal is chipping or breaking, it's due to being TOO hard. Denting or bending is due to being soft. Tool steels such as D2, A2, S7 can be hardened to higher maximum Rockwell hardness's than stainless. Different metals have different "maximum" Rockwell hardness's. I would bet the tool steel jaws are either D2 or A2 tool steel that has been hardened to Rc 60 or higher to be brittle. Stainless steel needs to be a 400 series to be heat treated and has a lower maximum treatable Rockwell hardness than tool steel. 400 series stainless is slightly ferrous. Non- ferrous metal does not heat treat. So, the tool steel jaws are more then likely HARDER then the stainless. That's just metal science guys. Is why the stainless has less chipping problems. They might dent easier, but won't chip or break as easy as the HARDER tool steel. To test hardness, The Rockwell system is nothing more then a set force behind a special sized tip to see how much it dents the heat treated metal. (A set Pounds per square inch force) You measure the dent. Comprenday! SO! The type of metal DOES NOT determine the hardness IF YOU ARE HEAT TREATING IT. It's the Rockwell you heat treat it too is what you measure the hardness by. I can heat treat D2 tool steel to only 50 Rc. and a piece of 440 stainless to 56 Rc. I just made the stainless harder then the tool steel. OR, I can harden the D2 tool steel to Rc. 62 and the stainless to Rc. 56. I just made the tool steel harder then the stainless. OR, I can harden both materials to the same Rockwell hardness, as long as I stay within the stainless steels maximum Rc. to harden the tool steel too. Typically tool steel can be and is hardened to a higher Rockwell then Stainless. That's your metallurgy lesson for this week. There will be a review followed by a quiz on Friday.

Go to rusuperfly.com. Pat Cohen who is known for his hair stacking talent, has "Select Belly Hair". It Will not let you down. If "consistent quality" is what you are searching for. Search no further. I'm sure others on this site will back me up on this.

Danger! Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

I don't want to freak anyone out on here by saying this, I know it's blaspheme, But, I bet those would kill ice fishing. OUCH! I actually might tie some up and give to my nephew to try through the ice. OUCH! If we would ever get ice in Kansas again..UGGG!!! Sorry guys! I'll repent when I get home tonight. Man that hurt.

Wow! I watched the video on how to set it up, and holy cow! That's just a little too much for me.. LOL. I'd have a fly tied in the time it takes to put thread on the friken bobbin. Good ol Griffin standard bobbin for me. I always hear "Thread tension setting". Uh, I don't get it. My bobbin has boi-feedback auto tension system. When I feel it's to loose , I squeeze harder on the bobbin with my palm. LOL.... It comes natural to me. Boy , I feel so bad for those guys 30-40 years ago tying flies. How did they ever do it without all the gadgets we have today. LOL.. Fancy vises and tools don't tie flies...YOU DO!!!! BUT!!!! I got to say it looks totally cool..

Nothing is cooler to look at then a nicely done full fly box. Sweet!!! What drives me crazy is when I have to use one, loose it, then I have a bare spot in the box. It's just not right.

Do what I did. Get rid of the wife. Problem solved. Just kidding of course.

flytier, I don't know where you get the bigfoot clips but I friken dig'em. Cracks me up man!! That cracks me up.

YO, BOWMIKE!!!!!!! You cherish these moments buddy. In the blink of an eye, you'll be like me looking back. I cannot believe how fast it went. Milk it for all it's got BOWMIKE. Milk it!!

I lost a bobkin/half hitch tool not long ago. I friken looked everywhere!!!!!!!! Was one of those Twilight- Zone episode moments. Where in the *&@# did it go. There was no place for it to go but the floor. It was no where to be seen. I was fuming. I gave up after a lifetime of searching. Then about six months later I noticed something brass colored peeking out from the spot where the backrest of my chair connects to the metal base. A friken surgeon could not have strategically placed it there any better. ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's like this... When I sold my last Blazer,, I sold it for $5000 dollars. $1000 for the Blazer,, and $4000 for all THE FRIKEN SOCKETS AND TOOLS THAT FELL INTO IT AND I COULD NEVER FRIKEN FIND THEM!!!!!!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!^$%%#$**&$^#$#^$& I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS!!!!!!

I remember when I showed my son fly tying. He got into it for a while. Put a booth at a local craft fair. He had the walk way blocked with people stopping to watch him tie. They had to scoot his booth over to make more room. We don't see a lot of fly tying here in Kansas y'all... LOL..Sold a lot of flies too. I remember he sold a lot of little foam beetles and Copper Johns. He was tying Copper Johns before they were being sold in stores and magazines. (A fisherman in Colorado showed me one while on the Eleven Mile Canyon spillway river.) It was awesome hearing him tell me the story when he was finished with the craft fair. He was so proud of himself. (Not to mention I was glowing proud of him too). MY SON!! THE HIT OF THE CRAFT FAIR!! Then he got a BMX bike and started racing it. (Following his dad's legacy) Game over- vise for sale. He'll get older and come back to the dark side some day. You'll see. Now he's in his thirty's and has a child. WOW,,Geeze, It's just now hitting me how long ago that was. Well, that's it... I'm depressed,, got to go.

Hey, Tell me where I can get those tails please. I got to make some of these for the white bass and hybrid wipers in my home water. I know it will slay them.

BOOOOOO HISSSSSSS!!!! Hey, you can't expect everyone in here to be a patriots fan. Geeze! LOL.

AH HA HA HA HA... I can't stop looking at BIGFOOT. Cracks me up man.. He's so happy..LOL

LOL, pants and skirt. I was going to advise on a name for that, but I decided not to touch it. LOL. THE CREAM, Is a VERY VERY clean and super well packed fly. I give two thumbs up on that one. Really nicely done. That dog will hunt.

AH HA HA HA. Don't fret guys. I'm not going to rant over copying. Because this clearly isn't a total copy. LIKE OTHERS TOTALLY ARE!!. LOL.. I don't think it's as graceful looking as a Law. But at least parts of it are ORIGINAL. FLYTIRE, you made me laugh. Have a great day guys. I'm done.

Someone post a picture of this please. I got to see this.

May I ask what that pile cost you. I would really like to add some more fox to my fur stash.

Bass master. That is pretty brilliant bro. You should see the crazy thing I made. I like yours.

Eide, I would love to see a nice picture of a Wheatley style fly box full of those full dress salmon flies. All different patterns. Black and blue doctors, highlanders, rangers ect. It ALWAYS makes for a beautiful picture. I'm a full dress addict. I'm due for a new screensaver pic. Something like this. Just an idea. I know you could make a beautiful display of your flies like this. Can't wait to see what you come up with. There is nothing like a box full of full dress flies. Note: I did not take this pic. I robbed from the web.