Travelling Vises
"Scott Seidman" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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These problems might be avoided by the streamer jaws, but now you're very
near the Traveller price range.
I do like the bobbin cradle, though, because it can move in more
directions
than the one on the traveller, and be used for other purposes.
Scott
Well, I had several Renzettis, the 4000 Presentation, the Master and the
Tube fly vice. I sold or retired them all, because they did not suit me. I
have a habit of using my left hand to manipulate stuff behind the vice, and
I found this very difficult with the Renzettis. I have no problems with the
Danica.
I still have eight or nine vices, mostly relatively "high end" equipment.
Dynaking, HMH, and a couple of others. I tie a lot of very varied flies, in
a whole range of sizes and configurations, and so I want good gear for doing
it. Mostly I tie on a "Thompson clone" which I bought over thirty years
ago in England. It is of higher quality than the Thompsons themselves, (
Manganese Steel jaws etc, and has a couple of additional options), and it is
still as good as new.
Vices are very personal matters really, and one manīs meat may well be
another manīs poison. I know a fairly large number of top dressers swear by
the LAW vice, but I did not like it much. It is also very expensive of
course.
I have not actually used a Traveller, ( At least I canīt remember doing so,
but I probably have), but I assume it is more or less the same ( at least
from the optics) as the other Renzettis I have used. I would rather have
the Danica.
TL
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