Sunrise, the other white meat...
If you are like me, you know fly fishing (and tying) is at least "snazzy" if not being downright "foo-foo".Sunrise, being the bottom feeder flytying company from India, keeps churning out stuff for the low end of the market.Do you have bits and pieces of Sunrise stuff in your kit?I honestly like a lot of their stuff. I have a cheap 3 inch Surise scissors that fit me perfectly. Their bobbins are all I use, even though I dabbled in excactly one ceramic. My first vise, an incredibly no-nonsense vise no longer made, held hooks as well as any other cheap vise and was cheaper to boot. I still have it.Anyone else wanna fess up about using some Sunrise stuff as your primary tools? "You can have my Sunrise scissors when you pry them from my cold dead hands." grin.
I agree that some good tools cost more...
That first Sunrise vice put me into about 2000 flies before jaw splay and metal migration, for want of a better term, caused me to "upgrade." I ended up buying two other low end vices with more features but no better quality. And then finally splurged on an HMH Spartan, which shows very little wear after .... I'd guess ... 4000 flies. But the rest of my tools remain low budget because they continue to function well. So my go to scissors, bobbin, bodkin, and hackle pliers remain Sunrise. I don't consider admitting this trolling, folks. Buddy, thanks for the private message. I don't do much of that, so I'm responding in public for all to see.