Idea for Cheap Fly Storage Foam...

[jeliask]

Here's a picture of the foam I use to hold my flies, I made an old wooden box into a storage box for new flies.
This is some kind of ribbed insulation from Home Depot, comes in 50ft rolls for about $5. It's about 6" wide. Works great.

[Sagittarius62]

Eureka!!! I have tons of small plasctic boxes, and I have been looking for a suitable foam to use. I had not been able to find anything like this. By the way, our local WallyWorld recently had, on clearance, what they called Bacon Storage boxes. They are shaped, well like a pound of bacon, with a hinged lid. I bought a bunch of them with homemade fly boxes in mind. Thanks for the tip.

[Joe Valencic]

That HD insulation (sill sealer) is a really neat idea. Personally, I use cheap foam sheets from the craft store to line my boxes. I put a few dots of hot glue and drop the foam in...works like a champ. Here's a $1 wooden display box (from Michaels) that I made for a Christmas fly swap at out local club, using craft foam. This was using the 3/16" thick material.

Joe

[JZ]

I have made 5 fly boxes using the craft foam... I will have to post them here, one is walnut, one is cocobola, one is mahogony, one is ebony, and one is zebera wood. The only one i have left is the walnut one, because it is my all time favorite type of wood. I'll post em soon1

JZ

[trout1]

Great idea, went down to Home Depot today and got some, plenty to share with my fishing friend. I will glue some to a board of the same width and put it on the wall near my bench, for the flies I'm tying at present.

[jeliask]

cool, glad someone else could use my accidental discovery! Happy Tying!

Jeff

[flyandtie]

i use fun foam that i found at longs drugs for a $1 a sheet. it comes in lots of colors to

[maodiver]

craft foam comes thicker than the stuff we use to tie chernobyls, etc. Some of it is 2-5 mils thick. I found some thick stuff with sticky backing....makes great fly box foam, you can cut slits in it for the larger streamers to hold them down in the box further.