I’m looking for a good pattern for a fly tying bench/work station with storage, etc… If anybody has one they made please let me know. Pictures and a pattern would be very helpful also.
Thank you
Dave,
It would be helpful to know what you mean by a “bench”. This can mean anything from a portable bench with space for your vice, tools, thread etc. all the way upto and including a 300 pound roll top desk with drawers for storage. Give us a better idea of what you have in mind and I’m sure there will be loads of people willing to share their solutions. Just a thought…
Jim Smith
I’m looking for a workspace that is practical and a way to organize all the materials. I have a bench but nowI need a way to organize everything.
My local lumber wholesaler sells “damaged” solid core wood-veneer doors to the public–for 20 bucks each.
You can use them to make a counter, with scratched side down.
Cut the door down to counter width. Screw a 2x4 onto the wall with long drywall screws, at exactly
the height of a pair of plastic drawer towers from Costco or some other such place.
Put the drawer towers at the front corners of the counter. Now put the door on top.
Project cost less than 70 bucks, for a bomb proof counter with drawers aplenty.
On top of the counter you can add smaller plastic drawer towers, for hooks, thread, etc.
This was mentioned in a recent thread…is it what you mean?
Getting a deal on a solid core door from a wholesaler is sweet, a few year ago a friend gave me a solid core door taken from an old hospitality that was being renovated. After I got it home I realized the core was abestoes. It was a fire rated door from a room, I was lucky to dispose of it legally with a contractor removing the abestoes from a hotel being razed. Just be careful about taking doors from old buidling like hospitals or hotels.
I seen this one posted last week. If I am off this weekend I will be building it.
This is my Fly Fishing Room, where I dress flies, build fly rods and furled leaders. Fly Bench is on the left, on the right is a old public library table top (oak) with storage underneath for my rod building equipment (the table has rollers w/lock) so I can move it to clean underneath.
Colored Sheet on the back wall are my background for when I am tying flies, they are 2mm foam sheets. They also are useful when I am taking digital photos of fly patterns.
My fly tying table as my Fly Tying board that is transportable, so I can do my tying outdoors on a nice summer day, instead of being hold up in the basement.
The furled leader board and saw horses are stashed in the cubical to the right out of camera veiw. All walls are floor to ceiling white peg board, the concrete floor has been painted white with floor enamal.
To help reflex the light. I have shop lights on the ceiling for maximum lighting. I have extra portable work lights (with shield) that I can position when I am taking digital photos of a fly pattern.
I have a flat word board that I have 10 electrial circuit testers for holding my finished hooks, when I coat the heads on the flies. I have shelves for storing my storage containers, holding my various fly tying materials (furs, capes, threads, tinsel, tails, wings, ect.)!
I also store all my fly fishing gear in the room, you can see some of my fly rod in tube. I also have file drawers for all my past issues of fly tying and fly fishing magizines. I also store my maps and fishing log sheets in them. Lower drawer have my wading boots, dried and rolled up waders, fishing vest and other gear.
I have my old computer that is obsolete for surfing the www but it is just find for storing all my fly patterns that I have converted to PDF off of FAOL.
I have CD player so I can listen to music will working, mostly classical music.
It took me about a year to get in all finished, but I have my room where I can shut the door, and be in my own world… ~Parnelli
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/tyingtips/part138.php
I’m so building this bench. It’s on like donkey kong!
Thanks evrybody… some really good ideas out there i think i can work with it. if nybody else has any please post them
We have a small room, about 12 X 8 that is dedicated to fly tying. It used to be our dinning room, but VEE, my lovely wife, said we could eat on TV trays, we needed a tying area.
This is VEE’s area
and this is mine.
What isn’t shown in the pictures is the 12 foot long X 5 foot tall X 18 inches deep wall of drawers that forms the fourth side of our area. We also have several under bed boxes full of bird skins.
No matter how much storage room you start with, you’ll need more. Nature and fly tying areas abhore a vacuum, both will magically fill with goodies.
REE
Inspiring fly tying layout (Ron Eagle Elk).
It reminded me (somewhat perversely) of the following photo, which I downloaded
from the Washing Fly Fishing Forum a few years ago:
Okay, ya got me. I did clean up the bench for the photo. This is how it normally looks.
VEE’s area, however, always looks neat as a pin. I don’t know how she does it and still tie flies.
REE
Okay we feel better about you personally, but that is a very nice tying area, well arranged, storage drawers designed to hold tying materials and a pretty nice financial and time investment in equipment. My initial thoughts was the area reflected years of military training and discipline and sharing space with a lady. I’m thinking you are more than a casual tyer and fisherman.
Jesse,
August of next year will see me being retired as long as I served. Any military training and discipline I had fell by the wayside long ago. Well…some of it any way. I am a casual tier, who prefers to spend no more than five minutes on a fly. Any longer than that and I tend to put them in a display rather than on a tippet.
REE
I use an old kitchen table. I went to Wall- mart and got 4 three draw containers, wala, I have a tying bench
One thing that has really saved me is PEG BOARD! No tying area should be without it. I put mine on the wall directly above my bench. It allows me to put all my “stuff” up and out of the way on hooks, but still within easy view and reach.
The other thing that I found indespensible is this spindle thread rack. $15 and it gets all your bobbins up and out of the way (I attached mine to my peg board).
http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/productdetail.jsp?pageName=search&flag=true&PRODID=prd5625
For some of the other stuff I have tupperware-type clear boxes that allow me to quickly see what’s inside.
And REE is definitely right - no matter how much storage you have - you always need more.
I say all this with most of my tying stuff still packed from our recent move, so I can’t send any pictures 
GOOD LUCK!