Take a look at this amazing tying desk and cabinent someone posted over on the fiberglass forum.
http://fiberglassflyrodders.yuku.com/topic/17259/For-those-of-you-that-share-a-passion-for-woodwork
Awesome. Can you believe the obnoxious sign?
Does anyone know of a thread on this board where tying desks are shared? Just looking for ideas.
I’d use the “advanced search” function on Google - type in “tying desk” and then put “flyanglersonline.com” within the “Search within a site or domain” line; does a much better job than the search function here. By the way, that’s a pretty nice piece of cabinetmaking, but the oak work surface would make a pretty poor background; think I’d have to rig up something with formica in a muted color.
Regards,
Scott
I like this one too (copied from an another post, long ago):
Love it! Now THAT right there looks pretty similar to my tying desk! I’ve got a big pile of “parts” and pieces I just KNOW I’ll find a use for in some fly pattern or other one day soon!
Hey,
Who snuck into my house and took a picture of my tying desk? But wait, no Nor-Vise, so I guess it isn’t my desk after all. 
Larry —sagefisher—
Thanks Scott. I’ll give it a try.
That is some tying desk for sure. Don’t think it will fit under my ceiling, LOL! Would love to have one like that though as my stuff fills a whole room and is in many plastic cabinets which I fear for all the time.
I had a huge problem after the first of this year and almost couldn’t tie. I tore my really injured my shoulder 18 years ago, but adapted to that and it didn’t give me trouble tying until this year and then it really did. Had MRI and Doc said I have a massive tear in my rotator cuff, but I also have some heart issues so he didn’t want to do surgery at all. Then he ask if I had lowered my vise for tying and I really had thought about it, but just had not. So a friend came over and made a step down for me attached to the table I tie on and that was like magic. Anyway here is a picture and I know there are 2 vises shown, but the Peak goes when I tie my jigs and the Peak I put here to rope dub tie with as I can make it even lower which helps me. Here are a could picks of my station and room. Under my table is full of boxes full of very high quality saddles and capes with a couple of full skins in there too. However the room is full also on both ends you can’t see.
Skip
Then just one from the other side and will not put all sides in right now…
Skip48… Tell me kind sir… from this wonderful wonderland of tying materials how you tie? Do you tie twelve or twenty-four flies at a time or do you tie a fly and move on to something else?
The reason I ask is because my room is beginning to look much the same… and I tend to do the latter.
Michael
Mostly I tie crappie jigs and I keep really too busy with that so lots of repeat stuff. The flies I sell some if someone sees them on my site and wants some, but my flies I tie mostly for my enjoyment. I took this up as a total hobby for something to do when I stopped stock trading and started with the jigs and someone ask if I sold them and I said no, but guess I could. So put my web site up and after about 1 1/2 years I have been behind ever since.
I bought the rope dub DVD last July and have been trying to find time to really get into that more and even maybe some jigs based on that, but really it’s mostly for me and the jig thing has kind of got out of control, but am reeling it in some now.
As for do I tie one and move on, well kind of, but I am subject to tie as many as it takes to get where I like the out come and then move on to another. I am always looking for things I can dream up to tie which I know most have been tied before, but if I have not sent hem at least what I do is something I came up with and am happy with that. I guess every time I see new materials I don’t have I start to think of what I can do with them and soon my OCD takes over, LOL!
Oh forgot to say this is really a wonderful hobby and never run out of something to tie that is new so I just love it.
Skip
I will jump in and say that I agree with you whole-heartedly. I love to tie and experiment, and the experimenting takes me many places I sometimes don’t even know how I got there. But I’ve been tied down health wise the last couple of years and haven’t had a real chance to try many of my own flies so I send them out with all of my friends and get reports on how they’ve worked (or not)!
This has been a real fun thing seeing their faces when they come back… Many of them wanting the recipe to something I dream-pt up and I have no clue and will have to dream up again. When they describe the fly to me, I can remember what it looked like but not necessarily how I got there. So then I’m off to re-inventing the bug.
I do also spend time looking at old fly books and how flys were tied in the past. It is pretty mesmerizing the different ways men and women have come up with the same fly over the years and named them differently, or at least almost identical. Be blessed and tight lines!
Michael
That is very cool, but sorry to hear you don’t get to use them. I have ample health issues my self, but could go fishing if there was water under my boat, but last Sept the SRA said they had to drop the water in this huge lake to repair the dam. Of course since we were in a drought already and still are the water has not come back to my boat. I was going to take it out, but when I went to check things out, just down the hill, my trailer of just 3 years old boards were rotten. I couldn’t figure that one out at first, but then I found on the internet that you can’t put new treated boards under an aluminum boat and I have a Lund. It sets up a chemical reaction that will eat holes in your boat so then I knew why my boards were rotten and mad they didn’t tell me that. Eventually I bought some polypropylene boards on the internet to make mine good from now on, but by then the water was gone.
So now much like you I tie my jigs for guys and they are the only ones fishing with them. I do wish more people her fly fished so I could do more of that.
May God Bless you as well!
Skip
I suddenly feel very dissatisfied with my tying desk. The green demon of ENVY has entered my life. 8T
That is one awesome tying station/desk/storage thing, biggest I ever have ever seen and would love one if only it would fit under my ceiling, LOL! Of course paying for that fine of a desk (having a hard time calling that just a desk) as it’s got to be a lot of cost involved.
He really need to find a way to convince his wife to let it in the house though so the AC can keep everything nice, or some excuse.
Skip
