The E-Z pliers are hard to beat in my opinion. The only exception is that the knock-off versions from even some of the better fly material shops are really junk. I bought several that way for my class kits and scrapped them. The R.S. version are good as hackle pliers but also make good dubbing loop tools and even as fly holders when attaching tippets on the stream. (They do come in sets of 2)