If you’ve got a Harbor Freight anywhere near you I just picked up a 3 or 4 inch Stainless bowl with magnet bottom for 99cent’s with a instore coupon.
I wont use it for hook’s I got it for other stuff.
For hooks I put a strip of magnetic tape on my vise’s and set my hooks there.
Or on the bottom so hooks don’t get hung up in the magnet
OR
On the top. Close the lid and shake to get a hook or ten on the shallow top lid for easy access.
That magnetic B-Card goody could be used a ton of ways for this.
On the bottom of a small Tupperware type bowl?
Take a magnetic business card (the type used to hold notes onto your refrigerator door), glue it on a thin block of wood and spray it white so the hooks will be easier to see. I suggest the wood block rather than a recessed dish because you could then let the hooks hang over the edge a little and be much easier to pick up.
You can get magnet blanks at your local office supply that are cut the same size as a B-Card and have adhesive on one side to stick a card to.
I kind of like Ray’s idea.
Unless your vise use’s a c-clamp, look at my post below for using an adhesive B-card magnet on your pedestal base. When I sit down to tie, I get out what hooks I think I’ll be using for that session and stick them to the magnet on the vise.
Brilliant!!!
Gary
Just curious about using a tin or such container with a magnet. Would you leave hooks in it? If not, whats the purpose of a container in the first place? And if you are going store hooks in it, do you really want potentially dozens of altoid tins to store and go thru? Why not just use any magnet to stick your working hooks to while your tying?
Not discounting any ideas, but there is a such thing as grossly over engineering a problem. Just an observation.
Excuse me… I am an engineer and that is what we do! It gives us purpose in life!