My Inventory is Growing Uh Oh...

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Fly Tying Supply Inventory

Tools
Anvil Apex vice, clamp and pedestal base
1 Ceramic Bobbin
1 Flared Tip Bobbin
1 Bobbin Threader
1 Pair Needle Nose Pliers
1 Dr Slick Rotary Hackle Pliers
1 Dr Slick Bodkin
1 Dr Slick Iris Scissors
1 Dr Slick Arrow Point 3.5" Bent Scissors
1 Dr Slick 4.5" Hair Scissor
1 3.5"Fine Point Scissors
4 Hair Stackers

Hair

Large Blue Deer Tail
Natural Deer Tail Small
Small Deer Hair
Rabbit #3
Zonker Strips Black, Leach Red, and Olive/Black

Feathers

Small Package of Wet Hackle Grizzly
Small Package of Dry Hackle Grizzly
Marabou Blood Quill Red
Marabou Blood Quill Blue
Marabou Blood Quill Black
Marabou Blood Quill Yellow
Red Saddle hackle
Hen Hackle Grizzly, Green, Purple, Orange, Yellow, Red
Hen Hackle Black, White

Threads

Ultra Thread Olive 70 denier
Uni-Thread Grey 8/0
2 Uni-thread White 8/0
2 Flymaster-Plus Black 210 denier
No Name Orange Thread
Uni-thread 8/0 Yellow

Ultra-Wire

2 Copper
Green
2 Red
3 Gold
2 Black
Sliver
.025 Lead free

Chenille

Red
Brown

Mylar Tinsel

Gold
Silver
Oval Gold
Gold Silver

Dubbing

Wapsi Dispenser Sow Scud #1
12 Color Box
Sow Scud Smokey Olive, Black

Krystal Flash

Peacock/Pearl
Wing and Flash Ice Blue Pearl
Sliver

Miscellaneous

Scud Back Clear 1/8?
Jelly Cord Black and Clear
Midge Tubing Red
Better Beads Elastic line .5mm Black
Vinyl ?D? Rib Midge Clear

Beads

Tungsten Bomb Beads 1/16? Nickel
Tungsten Bomb Beads 3/32? Nickel
Copper 5/64? Copper

																	 Hooks

Daiichi 2220 (4X LONG STRAIGHT)
MUSTAD 3366 SIZE 6,8,10
MUSTAD 33903 SIZE 2, 6, 8
1/124 Jig Heads
White River Standard Dry Fly Hooks size 12
White River 1x long Nymph size 16
White River 1x long Nymph size 18

							             Cement

Wapsi Heads Cement

Yarn

Crystal Midge Yard Red

LEGGING

Clear/Pearl Flake
Chartreuse/Sliver Flake
Purple/ Elec. Blue Flake

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You aren’t even close to having excess stuff. I have no idea how mch tying stuff I have, even when I try to organize it. Half a dozen scissors, eight or nine bobbins, dozens of spools of thread… I was looking for more CDC the other day for some flies and found half a dozen ziplocs of it PLUS all the commercial stuff I have bought…

Welcome to the dark side, though!

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You have a good start but you dont have a problem yet. I dont think many fly tyers take the minimalist approach to there art so you can never have enough stuff, only pain is you always run out of places to store it. I myself tend to go overboard with orders and end up with a tonne of stuff i dont use much.

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Same here. I mean, did I really need that fourth hare’s mask just because it was one shade a darker olive than the one I already had? I think the folks who beleive tying saves them money just aren’t in deep enough yet. :smiley:
Coughlin

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If you have a postable, accurate inventory then you haven’t even scratched the surface! LOL

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I would suggest that if you even know about half the stuff you actually have, you don’t have excessive inventory:)

Jim Smith

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If you not only know exactly what you have, but also know where it is at… then you do not have enough. I’m not so sure you can ever have an excess of material

Steve

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Hi Iceman,

You’ve done a very good job of material and tool selection but you have a long way too go before you catch up with some of the old hands. When someone asks you if you have blue bucktail and your automatic response is “What shade of blue?” you will be getting closer to too much. The real test of too much stuff would occur if your house were on fire. If you made ten trips back into the burning house and could only save 3% of your material, you offically have too much stuff. Take care! 8T :slight_smile:

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really, that’s what i came home with the first time i went out for supplies. the next day i had to go back…now they keep the coffee pot full for me!

you’ll know it’s too much when you go buy something you need, come home and go to put it away, and there are TWO of them right there in the box.

of course that might be a function of our family’s method of finding anything that seems to be missing: go buy another one. bring it home, and it will find the one you knew you had.

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When you’re digging thru your stuff, and go “Cool! I forgot about that!”. Or “Wait, when did I get that?” THEN you have arrived. Only took me about a year.:shock:

Kirk

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Iceman: You have a nice starter set of tools and material enough for a couple patterns but when are you going to get serious?

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Recently I bought 25 Pheasant Tail feathers on Ebay.
Yes I got them for a good price, but it will last me some years.

I’ve got thousands of hooks and beads.

I say as I heard so many say here on faol: I can quit anytime, honestly I can.

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Who me Serious?

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When I started, I kept a small 4x6 spiral notebook with a list of materials so I knew what I had (or more importantly what I didn’t) when I went to a fly shop. About a year and a half into,it morphed into what is now a 6 page computerized spread sheet with a font at the smallest readable size. The deer hair line only has 12 different colors checked and that’;s just body hair, not belly or buck tail. I have the items sorted, catagory, like feathers, hairs, dubbings, threads, hooks, yarns, flash, hardware (beads, dumbells, conehedas etc.) and even lines, leaders and tippets.

About once a year I actually take inventory (usually a snowny January weekend) and mark whats getting low and what needs replaced. I also use the opportunity to straighten up/reorganize all the materials. After updating the spreadsheet on the computer, I print it and have ready for next trip to Cabela’s, Bass Pro, Jann’s, Gander Mt., or specific fly shop.

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Hi Bass Bug,

I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one who uses a computer spread sheet to keep track of fly tying materials. I’ve used Excel for seven or eight years. I have 12 categories of material and keep each on in a separate workbook. I color code items in black when new or hardly used, yellow when they are used past the halfway point and red when they are about to run out. It’s really the only way that I can keep track of stuff or even be sure that I have it in the first place. I have eight standard spread sheet pages of just hooks and nine spread sheet pages of just dubbing. BTW, that sounds like a fun way to spend a couple cold January nights looking through your treasures and checking out things. I think that I’m going to start doing the same kind of check. 8T :slight_smile:

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Thanks for some new ideas 8T. My original spreadsheet was started a few Excell versions ago before workbooks. I never thought about breaking it down into multiple sheets within the workbook before now. Oh dear I can see it grossly expanding from here since I have tried to keep it as compact as possible. D@mn I hate good ideas that make me work more…

I don’t do color coding but do see a definite advantage to your system now that I think about it. Will give that some thought as well. The only thing I have done is shaded needed/wanted items in light gray to stand out. When I take the hardcopy shopping, I can immediately see the gray items to look for. I have color printer, but print most non color on non color laser hence the gray up until this point.

After a material shopping trip I mark off what’s been purchased on the hardcopy. I usually only update the ecopy once a year after taking ‘Inventory’ and often make design changes or rearrange. Sounds like mine is now due for a complete overhaul! Thanks for the ideas.

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Bass bug, et al,
You can also do a “cover page” with hyperlinks to other files. Just go to the “Insert” pull-down and select “Hyperlink”. That way, you can have a single icon on your desktop for all of your files.

Kirk

PS it can also be used to link to other pages in a workbook. You could even add a link at the top of each page to go back to the cover page.

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Crazy, I’m way ahead of you. I’m looking at setting up an MySQL server to house my fly-Intranet. PHP enhanced webpages to link my material databases items to the manufacture’s retail photos. My kids say I’m OCD, but this isnt THAT excessive is it???:rolleyes:

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Bass_bug, Crazy & 8,
Ok, guys…I’m waaaaaay otta here :razz::razz::razz:
Coughlin

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You’re just getting started. I would consider that a ‘Basic’ list.