hook dispenser

What do you use for a hook dispenser if anything?

For hook storage I am putting the hooks in these 14 individual compartment boxes that lock. But I am looking for something for something to put on the bench when I take the hooks out of the storage box and get ready to use them to tie.

I typically take 6 or 12 hooks out of the box, put them on the bench and it never seems to fail, I drop one on the floor, grab my magnet on a stick and go looking for it. Something like this is what I am thinking http://www.dyna-king.com/accessories...3&pv=1&pid=064

More along the line of a magnetic bowl for small parts for an automotive application ought to cost $5 and not $21.

So when you take hooks out of storage for your tying session, what do you do with them? Open to suggestions.

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Originally Posted by Clay

So when you take hooks out of storage for your tying session, what do you do with them? Open to suggestions.

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i position them on a magnetic strip thats glued onto my tying bench.

I have a couple of recesses routed into by benchtop for hooks and beads.

I have used a magnetic thing intended for sewing pins and needles that worked well. Similar idea to the Dynaking dispenser but I'm sure it was cheaper.

I have a thing just like that Dyna-King thing. I machined mine myself, and it is absolutely the shizzle for hooks.........I used mag strips, little boxes, on and on.... I call it a hook dish, and had been using it for bout a year when I first saw the dyna-king thing.
Just another great Idea I should have moved on.......... ModocDan

Same as Normand. Actually slightly different. For a few years, Tiemco hooks came with a thin square magnet. I have several of those attached to my bench and desk.

i have one of these in my garage that me and my dad use when restoring our car projects. i dont have this exact one, and im sure if you search a little at your local hardware stores and such you can find one even cheaper than this, one site i saw had one for 3.00.

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...=magnetic+bowl

the hooks will stick in the bowl, and you can stick it to a metallic surface to keep it out of the way when youre not using it. we stick ours on the side of one of the toolboxes.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...233&hasJS=true

On sale now.

The "Tach-It" magnetic hook holder is what I have used for years and I'm very happy with what it does for me.

http://www.tachit.com/mobileholder.asp

Kelly.

Went out shopping trying to find a magnetic bowl. Found a SS with magnet, something about 5" X 9" at Menards, a local hardware store, for less than $5 but too big. Home Depot had a 6" SS, magnetic bowl for $10, but again too big.

Might have to try the push pin bowl, that might be the right size. The Cabelas, Waspi bowls look nice, but want something with a magnet. That tachit thing, I don't get it. I have some magnetic strips with adhessive on one side, kind of like the stuff that comes with the smaller Tiemco hooks in the bags of 25.

Anyhow, some good ideas just need to find something that doesn't cost $20 to ship.

:idea: idea time :idea:

take an altoid tin and stick on one of those magnetic business cards to the inside.

I bought a tool from harbor frieght. Could not find it on there web site but look at this
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=96649

found it. this hold 6 or more steelhead hooks size 4 and bigger and is what I use

http://search.harborfreight.com/cpis...tool&Submit=Go

I "stole" one my wife's small white bowls out of the kitchen. It works great for beads hooks etc. I line it up when I am tying so it is a backdrop for viewing the fly I am tying so it serves a double purpose. I just got to hope I don't get caught.

Two shopping trips today produced a 4" SS bowl with a built in magnet. It was a parts container.

Rick

I like the Tach-It mentioned earlier.

I just get it over with and jam them straight into my foot! :0

Actually, I just keep my hooks in the boxes they came in and get one out when I need it. Since I only tie a couple flies at a time usually, this isn't a big hassle.

- Jeff

I took an adhesive magnetic business card and stuck it to the base of my vise.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3...ise_magnet.jpg

I tie in a old serving tray. I still managed to lose a few hooks in the tray, so I stole one of the business card sized magnets off of the 'fridge and put it in the tray to hold my hooks. Free beats $3.

Kirk

Saw this today while looking for some thread tubes, about 2/3 rds the way down the page: http://www.eflytyer.com/new_stuff/ns_tools.html

Cliff Outdoors has a nifty answer called a Top Shelf: a small platform that has a white magnetic surface and a strip of foam along one edge. there are a handy hackle gauge and hook sizer on the corners. you can mount it on the vise stem or just let it kick around the desk.

i drop an appropriate number of hooks onto the magnetic surface, then as i prepare them by squeezing the barb down, i poke them into the foam. after i tie the fly, i poke it back into the foam at the other end, apply the head cement or lacquer, and let it dry.

i use the magnetic insert from Tiemco hoks---buy one set of flies from them and you have a hook holder on your bench forever!

If you've got a Harbor Freight anywhere near you I just picked up a 3 or 4 inch Stainless bowl with magnet bottom for 99cent's with a instore coupon.
I wont use it for hook's I got it for other stuff.
For hooks I put a strip of magnetic tape on my vise's and set my hooks there.

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Originally Posted by Normand

:idea: idea time :idea:

take an altoid tin and stick on one of those magnetic business cards to the inside.

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Or on the bottom so hooks don't get hung up in the magnet

OR

On the top. Close the lid and shake to get a hook or ten on the shallow top lid for easy access.

That magnetic B-Card goody could be used a ton of ways for this.

On the bottom of a small Tupperware type bowl?

Take a magnetic business card (the type used to hold notes onto your refrigerator door), glue it on a thin block of wood and spray it white so the hooks will be easier to see. I suggest the wood block rather than a recessed dish because you could then let the hooks hang over the edge a little and be much easier to pick up.

You can get magnet blanks at your local office supply that are cut the same size as a B-Card and have adhesive on one side to stick a card to.

I kind of like Ray's idea.

Unless your vise use's a c-clamp, look at my post below for using an adhesive B-card magnet on your pedestal base. When I sit down to tie, I get out what hooks I think I'll be using for that session and stick them to the magnet on the vise.

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Originally Posted by Normand

:idea: idea time :idea:

take an altoid tin and stick on one of those magnetic business cards to the inside.

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Brilliant!!!
Gary

Just curious about using a tin or such container with a magnet. Would you leave hooks in it? If not, whats the purpose of a container in the first place? And if you are going store hooks in it, do you really want potentially dozens of altoid tins to store and go thru? Why not just use any magnet to stick your working hooks to while your tying?

Not discounting any ideas, but there is a such thing as grossly over engineering a problem. Just an observation.

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Originally Posted by Bass_Bug

Not discounting any ideas, but there is a such thing as grossly over engineering a problem. Just an observation.

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Excuse me.... I am an engineer and that is what we do! It gives us purpose in life!