Blast From The Past

[SilverDoctor]

I was digging through some old boxes of fly thing stuff and found my old universal vises. I believe this one was bought for me in by Dad 1960. With all the hupala about new and unique rotary vices, here is an early rotary that I used commercially for about 20 years. Pulling out the center plug will allow it to spin much like a Nor-vice. My other universal was mounted on a wood block.I tied for 3 shops in those days, had a shingle out and sold flies out of my home with lots of weekend traffic, coffee pot was always on and the wood stove fired. This was before the days of fly shops. This little vice also played a good part of with extra income of putting three sons through school. I'm almost afraid to go through my tying diary to see how may flies I put through this vice.

 

[Toirtis]

Funny thing....I have about 4 of them, still in their boxes.

[SilverDoctor]

They where a great vice and I think they produced them for quite a few years.

[Toirtis]

I suspect that they did....I got mine as part of a purchase of a bunch of vintage fly-tying stuff from a chap that tied until the mid-70s.....they look like very decent vises, so I will definitely be trying one out.