antique Fly Tying Kit

[Bryan Wright 0]

Found this at a garage sale. I thought it was pretty cool. Paid 20 bucks for it.

 

top of box

 

Price tag

 

 

Vice

 

Spool and Bobbin (I think)

 

Contents

 

[hillbillyff 0]

Neat! My dad bought one of those back in the early '60s for us. It was great fun. I may even have some remanents of it in my fly tying "kit" now.

[olydagoly 0]

Thats an awesome find :yahoo: ...gotta love that high tech vise :headbang:

[Bryan Wright 0]

Thats an awesome find :yahoo: ...gotta love that high tech vise :headbang:

I am tempted to at least try to tye a fly with it and with only what is in the box however I have no idea how to use the thread with that thing on it.

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

to use the thread just pull the tag end from the spool across the top of the bend giving it tension then tie on like normal

[Guest rich mc]

i have one kit given to me by my dads friend. even had something chenille in a cellophane packet. what was better was a small blue booklet on flies and their origin. rich mc

[DrVette 0]

You guys sure know how to make a guy feel OLD.

I remember these kits...some of the luckier kids in my class got these. I had to make my own vice based on how this one works. Would glue 2 popsicle sticks on either side of a third one then take a rubber band to tighten the tips down on the hook...like how this vice tightens down on the hook using the thumb-screw.

The clip on the thread spool was kind of hard to use. You would put on wrap around the arch and then use your pinkie to guide thread out as you wrapped. you had to constantly pull the clip back and forth using your thumb and index. I had to use a wood cloths pin (with the metal spring it them) and several feet of thread cut off a spool...man those days seem like a long time ago...middle school electives class;fly tying...who could imagine i would still be doing it or how many things have been invented/introduced to change how i do it???

[Kirk Dietrich 0]

My first five was one of these, the kit I had came from Herter's in the late 1970's. The damn vice couldn't hold a hook if its life depended on it. I actually wound up bending the jaws around the hook when tightening the thumbscrew; I guess the jaws were of a metal that was to soft and not rigid enough.

Nice antique to have around for a conversation piece.

 

Kirk

[Bryan Wright 0]

I am wondering if I should use the materials in the kit or leave it as is? I think I am leaning towards leaving it as intact as I can and not use any material from it and have it set up as a display eventually.

[Roadkill 0]

I would save the kit as is. I also have a similar one that takes me back to my first tying years.

 

I started in the late 50s with the advanced "Cam action" vise!

 

[C Teeter 0]

Man I would have to leave the kit intact thats an awesome find, I need to start going to more yard sales I guess!

[Bryan Wright 0]

The coolest thing about this find was that the garage sale had no fishing gear out. I asked the gal running the garage sale if she had any fishing stuff. She told me to hang on ran inside and brought that out. She said it was her grandfathers and she wasn't sure if she wanted to sale it. She saw how I lighted up and decided to sale it to me. She asked me for a price I said 5 bucks she said how about 10 I said sold.