What was your first vise, tools & materials ?

[bugman]

when i first started tying, the price was real cheap... didnt have money to buy a storebought vice so i made one... it was a clothespin screwed to a stick and stuck in a peice of 2 by 4...feathers was just whatever i found in the yard or the chicken coop & fur was from whatever had hair like discarded peices of carpet or just about anything... my grandma made all our clothes so i had plenty of thread to tie with... she allways left a foot or 2 on the spools when she throwedem away... later on i got a thompsonvise, the older model what has a knob at the rear to tighten the jaws... now i use a danvise and have tying tools for every tying situation emaginable, (6 tying stations all with vices, tools & tying materials), teaching a tying class and have a walk in closet full of tying materials...