Benchside Reference for Southpaws
Having finished a 25 months tour during which no tying was possible, I am looking to "start afresh". In the hopes of not picking up bad habits I developed/taught myself in my formative years, I am looking for a good fly tying reference for left-handed tyers. Is there one out there?
Warmest regards.
I'm a Southpaw, but I learned to tye right-handed in part because I couldn't find any other references. Actually, I learned to tye left-handed because I could hold the hook and material with the fingers of my left hand and wrap the thread with my right, but my right hand wasn't coordinated enough to do the reverse. It was a while before I got a vise, the one that came in my Boy Scout fly-tying kit.
Those were good days.
Ed
im gonna say that not many authors write for lefty fly tyers but i think charlie cravens tutorials might be right up your ally. i am a right handed fly tyer and have no problems in following charlies tutorials. the methods and techniques of fly tying should be the same for both hands.
leftys just tie on the wrong side of the hook, like golfers stand on the wrong side of the ball
http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/index.cfm
Last edited by Normand; 07-15-2009 at 07:27 PM.
Never seen that site before, and I am IMPRESSED!! There are so many flies on there, each with tutorials...FAOL is great, but so is this. not a lefty, here, but I can definately use this. the idea of using lead wire to hold legs/wings back out of the way is worth the price of any admission.
"Trust, but verify" - Russian Proverb, as used by Ronald Reagan
EdD - very impressive...tying by hand. While my interest is piqued - and once I get back into the groove of tying I may tap your experience again for a different, but related, subject (streamside tying) - I am going to stick with initial goal of "relearning the right way" WITH a vise.
Normand - Thks! That site rocks. I'm so used to looking at right-handed tutorials and converting in my head, I had to compare FAOL's tutorials with the ones on the site you provided...and CLICK. My head didn't hurt. Very many thanks!
the only other person is oliver edwards. i think he ties right handed but when he ties it looks left handed because he wraps counterclockwise.
it would be like sitting directly in front of a right handed tyer
I don't really understand the problem.
Are you saying you can't transpose seeing it tied by a right-handed person to tying as a left-handed person?
If that is the case, try this:
Put a mirror to the side of your monitor and watch the videos that way. It should look left-handed then.
Last edited by Big Bad Wulff; 07-15-2009 at 08:16 PM.
Good fishing technique trumps all.....wish I had it.
Just some trivia. Charlie Craven is in fact right handed, but learned to tie using his dominate hand as the material hand. All the pictures in his book "Charlie Cravens Basic Fly Tying" were reversed before printing for the benefit of the majority.
ok but doesnt that still make him a left handed tyer??Originally Posted by chewydog
No, just backwards...
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