Profile plate?

[Clay]

If you had to do it all over would you spend $40 for a profile plate again?

Want one for the new DK but the $40 price gives me pause.

Sorry, I'm cheap.

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Clay,

My Snowbee-Waldron Vise came with a prpofile plate and I loved using it. Really eased the eye strain. However, when I'm tying at shows people can't see what I'm doing if the profile plate is in place. I'm so used to tying without it now, I don't use it. Keeping a clear background to your vise helps a lot.

REE

[tailingloop]

I have the DK profile plate in white. I would get it again. I want to get a gray plate too because that is a better background when working with white material, which I do a lot since I tie a lot of clouser minnows, deceivers, etc.

I have also used white and light gray sheets of felt as backgrounds, but never found an ideal way to mount them with my tying setup. I have my vise in a DK extension, held away from the table and below the table top so it is down closer to my lap. I needed to do this because of a should problem. The DK profile plate and mount works pefectly with set up, the plate actually being about 45 degrees from horizontal.

[bspitt]

Find a flat pastel paint & paint just about anyting. Luciliy I work with fiberglass & I made one sea mist green and used welding rods to hold it up....I'm cheap too!!!!

[Bass_Bug]

What model DK do you have?

[Clay]

What model DK do you have?

Full size Barracuda.

[Bass_Bug]

$350 for the vice but too cheap for the $40 profile plate? Whats wrong with this pictrure?

[TxEngr]

I've never used a profile plate, but never felt the need for one. Early in my tying, I built myself a tying bench with a white background on it so that when I'm tying I see the bench. But if I'm doing demonstration tying, they aren't bothered by anything. I just have to keep the bench clear so as not to make the background 'busy'.

TxEngr

[coughlin]

I'm cheap. I find a book with a greenish cover (Bates' Streamers) does the trick.
Coughlin

[Clay]

$350 for the vice but too cheap for the $40 profile plate? Whats wrong with this pictrure?

Cheap bastids don't have to make sense. Besides, I bought the vise on sale! Now find me a $25 profile plate and maybe I'll bite. I spend money, but I always have a problem letting it out of the wallet.

Thanks for all of the good comments on the profile plate. I'll keep my eye open for one, I need to upgrade my bi-focal perscription and get the profile plate and hopefully I will have less eye strain. It's a pain getting old.