fly tying desk

[pillcaster]

My daughter reclaimed the sewing machine table I was using, and my wife replaced our kitchen cabinets that gave me a "base", so I went to my local lumber yard and got some WVa oak and......



the discard slot on the right I got from the intra-net



An old cigar box fit perfect (with a little trimming) for a waste receptacle...



the knobs are from Missoula, mt foundry, kinda kewl I thought



and a shelf.....

fun project, if I had to do it again I would do a few things different, but overall, I think it will be adequate for dressing some hooks......

[Byron haugh]

Very nice. Come make me one.

[pillcaster]

I'll do it for no charge, you just pick up transportation...

[ScottP]

Fine work there (great book, too).

Regards,
Scott

[AlanB]

Nicely done, you have picked a good colour for the background to your tying. I wish there was a choice of woods at the timber yards here. Its kiln dried pine, chipboard, MDF (which I know is outlawed your side of the big pond), or ply. If you want anything else then its special order and hugely expensive.
Cheers,
A.

[smij]

That discard slot is ingenious! Nice desk.

[pillcaster]

That discard slot is ingenious! Nice desk.

It is handy, I got the idea from here http://lumberjocks.com/projects/31442

[pillcaster]

Nicely done, you have picked a good colour for the background to your tying. I wish there was a choice of woods at the timber yards here. Its kiln dried pine, chipboard, MDF (which I know is outlawed your side of the big pond), or ply. If you want anything else then its special order and hugely expensive.
Cheers,
A.

I guess there are not a lot of native hardwoods left, or maybe the Scottish climate didn't lend itself to them being there to start with?

[AlanB]

Pillcaster,
Mixed deciduous woodlands blanketed the highlands in the past. Now there are very few left. In their place we have row upon ugly row of pines. So many have been planted it is now poisoning the ground. Just the other day on my way to fish loch Fleet I noticed they had felled another area. What a mess they leave behind. I'm not surprised it wrecks the land.
Cheers,
A.