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I used a piece of star board that I received from the Four Winns boat factory that I use to work at, great piece of material. I found that using this with the white back ground really makes a difference in the lighting system on the fly when working. For travel, I invested in Norm's two posted system clamps where you are able to take your post and mount them so that you are able to clamp these pieces on a table, just like a traditional vise. I went to the Nor's site and do not see what I am trying to describe. At any rate I found that if you are able to keep your underneath in a neutral color it really helps in the lighting of the fly. Best of luck to you and your nor vise. It is a great tool and you will find your self getting spoiled by using it. Nicholas

Thank you for your info it is greatly appreciated. I will check out our store today for these products. Nicholas

I am pretty positive that I am not the only subscriber to Fly Tyer Magazine. Those that may have read the article from the Spring of 2005 about "Feather Head Minnows" may have read about the Homemade Head Goo. It talks about using for this homemade receipe 1 to 1 ratio of Household Goop (product from the local craft shop or Wal Mart) and toluene. Where do you get TOLUENE and what is this substance? This Head Goo seems like a good home sauce and would like to ask if any one has ever used it/made it? And how well did it turn out? According to what the pictures and the artice read it looks like I may need to try it out. Would like some input on this sauce. Thank you for your time, Nicholas

I was thing about something today while at the bench. What gets you going in creative mode? For me it is listening to the hardcore rock of Eminem and Kid Rock. Since working for the cable company has brought the benefit of free cable to my detached fly tying room in the garage, I also am blessed with full cable benefits as well. Do you watch television while tying? Listen to the radio, or do you just meditate in a pattern book at the bench? Also, what are your favorite programs while tying or what type of music gets the creative juices flowing? Just curious. Nicholas

I picked up a book on tying with Glass Beads. Ordered this from the Amazon.com store. Here is the auther and title and it was $13.97. So very reasonable. Tying Glass Bead Flies [Paperback] By: Joe J. Warren

Great Start Caleb on the website. Your flies look great and and your site compliments the talent you possess. A word of advice you may want to add more content to your flies, being description and what type of species they would target. The purpose of this would be for search engines to spider for your sit, but you may already be working on that. It is always great to see our youth involved. Keep up the good work. Nicholas

I have been using the Nor Vise auto bobbin for roughly 2 and half years. My experience has been with the wax build up as well. But this had come from using the GSP thread that goes with the Deerhair Bass Bugs. what I have found to clead the tube is take a piece of thread, NON WAXED, and dip in alchohal, NOT THE DRINKING KIND, and run that through and clean in a flossing motion. This motion would be similiar to flossing your teeth. When using this GSP. I do not use a Nor auto bobbin any more but use a traditional bobbin cause I am to lazy to keep cleaning. You have to watch your ceramic tube in this cleaning process that you just work to get the wax off. If it take a few times to get it out then so be it. It is better to take these applications in a few steps the grinding the HELL out of the ceramic tube and creating grooves that cut thread. As for the cutting the thread problem, I found that this has happened if using a drill to put thread on the spool. I would do a hurry up and get it on and the laying thread on the spool would not be even and uniformed so if you get a loose spot in the spool and then you go pull the thread tight on your flie to finish off, for example, the loose spot spins on the spool and the tension top piece cuts the thread below the leading thread. Make sense? To sum it up I found that taking time and slowing the RPMS down on my drill to make sure that the applying tension is even and consistent and that the thread lays flat makes good for problem free applications. Hope this is of some help. If nothing else give Norm a call, the guy answers his own phone calls, and ask him. He has been a good source to his own products and this service is what keeps me faithful to Norlander Company. Just wish we would put out videos of strickly tying using his vise. Nicholas

In measuring the weight. I came across sometime ago in the office supply store a cheap mailing scale. I think the price was $5.00 or $7.00. Very reasonable, so I picked one up and this is what I use to weigh my lures as well my mail that gets sent using www.stamps.com. Just a thought. Nicholas

No matter slow or fast, I greatly appreciate the people and the service of this site. I recommend and praise the service that flytyingforum.com offers and will continue now matter the speed. Thumbs up !!!!! Nicholas

Heres some info that I found useful in learning to take digital photos of flies. This is something that was passed on to me from this site. http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=2984&hl= and http://homepage.mac.com/riverwader/tying/Personal24.html Hope this is some help. I know it has been helping me a great deal. Nicholas

check out this site on it. www.mffc.org Gives all the details on when and where. Nicholas

My wife and I are going. This will be our first show we have attended. I can't wait to see all the exhibits. And the seminars should be great as well. We are going both days as well. See you all there!! Nicholas

Thank you for the info. It will be of great help. I am goind to the Fly Fishing Expo this weekend in Warren. Hopefully I will pick up on sum new tips and tricks that I would be able to share. Specially in deerhair tying, this is my most favorite because of the different colors and shapes you can come up with at the end fly result. Keep tying strong Nicholas

To waterproof my flies I spray with a can of Camp Dry, or Scotch guard works good too. It is really cheap way to have around and to use on flies. One tool that I use for trimming is a cordless beard/mustache/nose hair trimmer. I think I paid about $10.00 and it really makes roughing out a fly a simple process. I use the double edge razors to really final trim my shapes. Has anyone found an easy way to place eyes on their flies? Nicholas

Great Job Jim. I know what it is like to do some practice with deerhair. I have been practicing for about a year now and at times find it challenging but it would be my inexperience to selecting quality deerhair to spin with, you will get it. Heres an image of what I have been working on

Great looking Egg. I'm Sold!!!

The Fly Tyers Bench Reference book is an excellent reference book if you are not in a budget. I found that using a video, and the one I would recommend for beginners would be Beginning Fly Tying by Jack Dennis. Very basic and a good one for following steps. A good website for beginners would be (and I am not advertising) http://www.tie1on.net/ Just thought I would add some extra information. Nicholas

Thank you much I knew I had read this on before but have lost your link. Thank you again I will make sure to keep it in files.

I have been looking for some information on how to go about photographing my flies and making the pictures come out great with a budget digital camera. Could any on lend some advice or were I would be able to find this information?

Another good source for glow in the dark bead and material I have used is Stamina. www.staminainc.com. They have a good selection to chose from. To make the glow really glow I have found that a flash from a camera will really set the glow off. LED light works but really have to wait for it to charge where the camera light is instant after you flash it. Nicholas

I have recently bought and used Dr. Slick Deer Hair Scissors. But as it goes in tying a lot of Deer Hair Bugs they seem to have gone dull. Is there any tips or trick anyone could share in sharping them. They have a serated edge to them, so am not sure on how to go about it. Thank you for your input. Nicholas

Here is a good idea on keeping your bench clean. When tying with deerhair or bucktails I lay a sheet of "SWIFT" dry mop sheet on the table below my vise. The natural static that this product has works wonders on keeping the hair, fir and feathers from falling all over. They are some what cheap compared to the time of havine to clean every stinking hair up that gets mashed in the carpet. Nicholas

What I do to hold my flies after applying head cement and do not want the cement to dry in the eye of the hook I place the eye of the hook in a tooth picks that are lined up in a cheap piece of foam. Some thing like this picture. Makes for great display to if you are wanting too for take pictures of flies and need them to stand up at attention. Nicholas

I am tying with the Nor Vise. I have to say that it is a little hard to first get use to it but found with the many accessories, and monetarily it all adds up, this vise functions extremely well. I would add that I have found the need to spend time in studying patterns in books, magazines or other receipe places and then translate it to Nor Tying. May take a little longer to figure out but once the patterns are down this is a wiz in production. I would like to note the first thought in wanting to tie on a Nor Vise was to boost production on Bucktail Treble Hooks. Making of Spinners and such. Finally, would like to add there is not much in Nor Vise Tying literature out there. Wish there was and would love to find more Nor Tyers out there to share there techinques and practices on using this system. Nicholas

Awesome tip. This is on of the mean things or ideas that has attracted me to tying flies. The uncounted levels of creative thinking in materials that are so easily meant for one thing but used in another. I personaly look to the waste and scraps of every thing that I come in contact with on a daily basis. Copper is one of them. If I am not picking through the garbage at work to collect copper wire to use in my flies, being size, I am collecting it to turn in for salvage and it buys my hooks, hackle or what have you. Thank you Nicholas