I want to be a voice of dissent about the Danvise. One of my guides had one for one season and utterly obliterated the jaws in this timeframe, probably tying no more than 2500 flies. Even a #4 Woolly Bugger just fell out of the jaws in the end. He switched to the Griffin Blackfoot Mongoose, which is 95% the same as the Montana Mongoose I've been tying on for four seasons but has less bells & whistles at much lower cost.

The ONLY thing I liked about the Danvise was the bobbin cradle. Much faster to swing it down into position than standard cradles, which need to be rotated around and whose arm sits below the vise in the way of the bobbin. I modified my Gallows Tool to function like the Danvise bobbin cradle (Superglued a couple turns of lead wire on the end of the suspension arm for the thread to rest in).