Flytyer

Brent are you some what of a mind reader?

I seen this somewhere and thought it would be neat to try it here; the results could be interesting. I'll start with a component for the fly and then designate the next person to add the next component to the fly, the next person adds the component and then designates the next contributor and so till the fly is done then we start the next fly. So to start off I'll pick the hook to build on. Daiichi 1250 # 12 I pass on to Silver Doctor

I use curved hooks mainly as an emerger hook; the 3906 and 3906B are great standard nymph hooks. It's the gape that affects your hookups most I believe and the 3906 is a round bend and has a decent gap in it's gape. Limerick bends I would stay away from as they seem to be narrower in the gape.

The required addition part is an opinion, but if you want to get the most out of the Nor, the automatics help you do that. If you have not seen the demo videos at the Nor-vise site I recommend taking a look and that should give you a better idea of why that required addition statement exists. I know I only use regular bobbind for wire and floss but auto only for thread. Hope this helps somewhat.

If you can afford and justify both then by all means go for it. You are the one that can make the final call on that one.

This is one way but it's not really necessary to do the wire frame bit to the same extent. http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/de...cfm?parentID=81

Done the air miles thing several times but nothing better than that.

A gallow's tool:

You can make your own little helpers with just a few blocks of wood some lenghts of 1/8" rod and alligator clips with some tubing slipped over the jaws. With these materials you can make most any kind of holder or "hand" you want; even a gallows tool for tying parachutes.

Looks like a nice little place to slip away to for a few hours of R &R. Thanks for sharing AC

I would call that a straight eye for sure

Ice dubbing in olive brown is very close to it for a substitute if you can't find it.

An observation about scuds/shrimp patterns.....people I have talked to that fish these types of patterns all seem to agree on one thing; the hook eye not being turned down/ or in depending on how you look at it....they claim the straight eye is best for the swimming motion. Makes sense if you think about it.

This has possiblities.

This was done once before with us and Writer 1 has done a few of these and he stated that it takes a long time to get one of these to work. He would gather up materials and send off to participants and they would create flies, problem was some never got the materials or their flies didn't make it back to their destination. I'm sure Writer may add some more top this as he has the most experience with this type of swap.

No one has any other ideas?

I'd tie that bead body directly to the hook and eliminate what you wound on the hook already.

I built several similar to this ; all of them have a drawer underneath and a row of film cannister holders which is quite handy.

Are you doing an extended body by chance? Sounds like one to me.

Surprising that peacock sword isn't used more often, it is much fuller and has really great irredesence.

These are the ones I have been using for floss.....I prefer the titanium over the ruby but both are suitable.

Strange that it wouldn't boot but happy you got it going again.

The wife has one of those too and it's been a PITA ever since she got it , thankfully her employer paid for it and thier IT tries to fix it. If I'm not mistaken the battery is not easy to remove. If the battery is charging it should take a few hours but it should be useable while your charging it. That why I like Macs.

Did you try removing the battery and try booting with it out? What brand is it? My thinking it should run with the cord regardless but maybe more here than one figures.

My rule of thumb most of time time is I want it in my hand to inspect it's quality before I buy materials. As most of you know materials are getting pricey. A picture is not worth a thousand words as the saying in alot of cases with online stores.