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RE: Make your own jigs...Video - TubeDude - 12-21-2021 (12-21-2021, 08:41 PM)Springbuck1 Wrote: Well, limited selection on WHAT I can do, but what I CAN do often works just out fine. It'll sound like a brag, but I know I'm not the only one out there like this. You with your lures and PVC work are a man after my own heart, I would think. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to do it right, but I'm driving a $2000.00 car. And, I have SOME tools and supplies, of course, but the idea is, what can I do in a way nobody has done it before, so I can do it with less. I'm married, and I turned fifty this year, so you know where the money goes.Didn't mean to ruffle your feathers. Believe me, I have made a loooooong journey myself. First flies were tied out of my aunt's chicken feathers...with my mom's sewing thread. First jigs were just split shot hammered onto a hook, etc. Been there done that. And before I got a wobble jig mold I hammered several different kinds of jigs flat...laterally and vertically. I know what it's like to have to make do with less than I really want. I am properly grateful for the things I have achieved and the possessions I have accumulated over a long life of often doing without. Hang in there. RE: Make your own jigs...Video - Springbuck1 - 12-21-2021 Oh, I ain't ruffled, Pat. Don' t think that for a moment. You've never been anything but helpful and kind to me, AND ABOUT on this forum, I just took the chance to talk about me a little, I guess. Purposely avoided all the stuff that never worked. I, too, tied chicken feather flies when I was eight, in a bench vise, but my neighbor kept guinea fowl and peacocks, so some were fancy. Sewing thread, kite string, Christmas tinsel. Everybody used to do it like that a hunnert years ago. I don't need a LOT more stuff, honestly, but maybe more time off, knowing more of the right people, knowing a few more things. We can't all shoot the big elk, geese, and catch lakers and walleye, but my needs are relatively simple. As I once said to my dad, " Some men aspire to panfish, and some men have panfish thrust upon them......" On top of that, I was serious, in a kidding way, about what I said in my first post. I really do get a kick out of finding a better way, or another way, to do something, that is simpler, takes less money, engineering, resources, etc. and actually works. It's a hobby. RE: Make your own jigs...Video - TubeDude - 12-21-2021 (12-21-2021, 10:38 PM)Springbuck1 Wrote: Oh, I ain't ruffled, Pat. Don' t think that for a moment. You've never been anything but helpful and kind to me, AND ABOUT on this forum, I just took the chance to talk about me a little, I guess. Purposely avoided all the stuff that never worked.Ha. My first fly-tying "vise" was a clothes pin...held in my left hand while I wrapped thread with my right hand. I have always been a member of the "finding a better way, or another way, to do something, that is simpler, takes less money, engineering, resources, etc. and actually works" school. And, like Thomas Edison and the light bulb, I have sometimes found a 1000 ways something would not work before finding something that would. I fully agree that the journey is its own reward...and usually better than the destination. We must have gone to different schools together. RE: Make your own jigs...Video - MSM1970 - 12-22-2021 (12-21-2021, 11:20 PM)TubeDude Wrote:(12-21-2021, 10:38 PM)Springbuck1 Wrote: Oh, I ain't ruffled, Pat. Don' t think that for a moment. You've never been anything but helpful and kind to me, AND ABOUT on this forum, I just took the chance to talk about me a little, I guess. Purposely avoided all the stuff that never worked.Ha. My first fly-tying "vise" was a clothes pin...held in my left hand while I wrapped thread with my right hand. I think the technical term is "NEATTERIZING" to make better to suit ones needs, cuz you cant aford it or they made it wrong. RE: Make your own jigs...Video - Springbuck1 - 12-22-2021 "they made it wrong..." That sums up a lot of stuff. "like Thomas Edison and the light bulb, I have sometimes found a 1000 ways something would not work before finding something that would." THAT's the real problem! Fit and finish. Machining tolerances. Reproducibility. Not having the right scraps in your garage. That thing where you gotta make the tool, to make the tool, to make the thing....... and ultimately not having enough time in a lifetime to try everything. RE: Make your own jigs...Video - meancuznalfy - 12-23-2021 Lol, after I got into it I figured out it can be done with whatever you have on hand. It can be costly with melters, paints and such, I've spent alot over the years, but I like being able to come home and make something I might need the next morning cause I lost all I had made. I make 50-100 jigs at a time in various sizes, can color them real fast if I have to. |