Make your own jigs...Video

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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.

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.