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It looks like a good vise; I surely like the cam lever. I don't know if you've
ever tied with a true rotary vise the angle of the jaws takes some getting
used to, not everyone likes them. You might find the bottom of the jaws get
in the way,

Or the when tying bigger flies like streamers the wings run into the top of
the vise, but it is doable to get used to. I like mine.

I use a renzetti a true rotary, same angle it looks like.

The only justification I can think of for having a true rotary is when in
free spinning mode that you can turn the jaws to wind bodies or hackle,
thread base, with your left hand, (if your right handed) the hook shank
turns true like stock on a lathe so to speak, the hook should be set in the
jaws so it's not jumping up and down when using the rotary function, and
interrupting a delicate operation. The rotary function my opinion is so your
right hand is not winding all the time and it saves me a lot of neck arm
aches, off course I do a fair amount of tying. You may like it.

With my renzetti the rotary function coupled with the 2 sets of ball
bearings inside the (rotary turret) where the shaft spins on.

The peak has solid brass rotary turret. I don't know what it spins on.

The renzetti vise being counter balanced makes it spin fast and a long
time, the only vise I know of with the ball bearings is the renzetti mastery
vise I don't know if the peak is counter balanced but I don't think it needs
to be without ball bearings, It won't spin that fast.

I've found that the brass arm got in the way and replaced it with the
palmer.

Of course not everyone needs a vise like the mastery. It's really for an all
round production tyer, and it is expensive.

You can still use the rotary function without the bearings; question is do
you want to. You'll never know truly till you try one.

There is plenty of great tyers out there who use all kinds of vises it's a
very personal decision,

I hope I gave you some food for thought.

I would think it's an excellent idea suggested by grumpy to try it first.
Or at least one likes it.



Well . Good luck with you decision. GJZ



"mdk77" wrote in message
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I'm looking for my first fly vice and wondered if anyone here might
have input on the Peak rotary vice (the model number is the Peak PRV
G-2)? I searched the ROFF group and found very little on this vice
and wondered if that was because it wasn't very good, or just not very
popular. It sells for around $140 which is within my budget. I
couldn't afford to pay anything more than that for a vise. Thanks in
advance for any feedback.