Everyone is selling "HAND TIED' flies, is there a machine tied fly?
If there is I sure would like to see one.
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Everyone is selling "HAND TIED' flies, is there a machine tied fly?
If there is I sure would like to see one.
Wouldn't that be false advertising? I submit that "hand tied" indicates no use of vise...
Kind of like restaurants that list "home made" foods on their menus. Occasionally I'll ask a server who's home it was made in- just get blank stares, and mumbling, in response. Oh- and I will never drink a "hand crafted" drink. Keep your paws out of my food!:-)
[quote=bluwatr;311652]Wouldn't that be false advertising? I submit that "hand tied" indicates no use of vise...[/qu
Wouldn't that be hand-held? If "hand tied" indicates no use of vise it should should also indicate the use of no tools (bobbin, bodkin scissors etc). Or does using a vice constitute 'vice tied' fly?
I say we close this can of worms and weld the sucker shut!
All fly tiers probably agree that flies cant not be machine tied. I think that 'hand crafted' fits what most of us tie versus 'mass produced' flies that are coming out of Asia.
what would have happened if the patent for the "electric rotary tying device system" ever came to be??
what would it have bbec called?
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5716020.html
Most flies are hand tied. A lot of advertisers use this term but whether they are tied in Arizona, Africa, India or the UK they are still tied by hand. Just a marketing term I believe!
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I seen soft plastic nymphs formed right on the hook.
No tying involved