Hello everyone,
I recently was the recipient of a pretty impressive gift. I was attending a seminar on fishing in Maine, when an extremely kinds woman asked if I tied flies. After a brief discussion of it, she handed me a box after the show of different fly tying materials and feathers and fur from the 60’s - 70’s. There were several wooden bobbins with different floss thread, and wool. But then I came across this thing and I have no idea what it is. Any information would be appreciated.
I will post pictures of the materials as well if you would like to see some of em!
I am a new tier too,but, the device with what looks like a dial resembles a micrometer
that I have. I use mine to measure the diameter of wire in thousands of an inch.
Hope I helped.
I’ve got a couple of the plastic Herter’s bobbins from the 1950’s and that doesn’t look like them. It’s possible that Shakey’s might be an even older Herter’s model. The black plastic Herter’s bobbin sits the spool vertically in the plastic cone not horizontally like the metal model that Shakeyfly is asking about. It is, however, definitely a bobbin. 8T
Shakey, just out of curiousity is there a name stamped anywhere on the bobbin?
There are absolutely Zero markings on the bobbin. No dates, patent numbers, made in names, or anything.
It seems as though it was custom machined. It’s a cool fine and as you can tell from the new pictures I took, I figured out how to pull the spoon off. I just don’t know what the machine split with the screw along the side is for. Maybe Spool Tension? This is pretty cool!
Thanks for the information about the bobbin. It’s too bad it doesn’t have a name on it but take very good care of it. You’ve got a real historical prize there! 8T
Now for a bit of nit-picking.
That item is not a bobbin. A bobbin is the wooden or plastic spool
that the thread is wrapped round.
It is a BOBBIN-HOLDER.
Yes, as the others have metioned it is a bobbin. I have seen pictures of that type tying books I have read, and every now and then you see one for sale with an assortment of tying items and materials on Ebay.
