You might consider using your bench vice to hold the dremmell handpiece if you don't want to construct a lathe. Wrap the handpiece in a piece of foam pipe insulation first. This has worked well for me.
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Chuck Hitt
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You might consider using your bench vice to hold the dremmell handpiece if you don't want to construct a lathe. Wrap the handpiece in a piece of foam pipe insulation first. This has worked well for me.
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Chuck Hitt
Hi Chuck,
You can do that for sure. But do be
careful. The plastic housing can easily
be crushed in the mechanical vise. You
can also fasten the dremel to a piece of
wood with cable ties. But the method I
used in the article was pretty basic and
has served me for more than 2 years.
Took all of half an hour and cost under a
buck. Warm regards, Jim
I use c-clamps on a base board (a little wider) screwed to and under the board that holds the handpiece with foam padded pipe straps. This way, its portable and I can set it up now anywhere I want.
BTW, my best fly last season was a yellow foam pusher (Dinny type Dremel bug) on a #8 Aberdeen hook. Like the one Jim has pictured below the "Flying Pig" fly. I caught LMB, bluegill, pumpkinseed, shellcracker (redear), red-breasted sunfish, warmouth, gar, pickerel, and an exotic Cichlid all on that pusher last season. Its now a surface fly that I don't leave home without http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif.
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Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL
"Flip a fly"
Hey Robert,
Sounds like a neat idea. Might work for
others as well. I knew I'd be using mine
a lot so I mounted it on the front edge of
my bench. I modified my portable tying
bench to slip over top of it and it's a very
comfortable position for me to shape bodies
or tie the flies.
The modified Denny style slider you
mentioned was a good one for me. Worked
well for largemouth here in a #6. As it
happens, I did a swap with Al Beatty and
that fly was laying on my bench. I threw
it in the box as an afterthought. Al picked
it to appear in Flyfish America magazine.*G*
By the way, probably half of my dremel bugs
are tied on #8 Aberdeen hooks. I also use
the extended crappy aberdeens for some
patterns. Makes it nice when you can buy
fly hooks at the local bait shop or Wallyworld. Warm regards, Jim
There are lots of ways to mount the dremel lathe. Here's what works for me. I have a clamp screwed to a wood scrap with a v cut in it. The clamp holds the dremel. Another clamp holds the whole thing down wherever I want it.
Take a look: [url=http://www.dianemaluso.org/ff/dremellathe.jpg:b413e]http://www.dianemaluso.org/ff/dremellathe.jpg[/url:b413e]