Hi Folks,
Years ago I equipped my flytying area with an antique library card file to store some of my materials. Last week an opportunity presented itself for me to purchase another card file that is newer and made of a wonderful hard wood. It came from a well known local university that as digitized their card information. Bottom line is that when I bought the 15 drawer file for myself, I was offered another 15 drawers only so I bought them. I would like to make those drawers available to anyone who might have use for them. If you are not a skilled woodworker and cannot make a holding cabinet for the drawers, Home Depot has a closet shoe organizer that will hold the drawers.
If anyone is interested in these drawers, I will take some photos and post them on the for
sale board but I need some help in posting the photos. I don’t have a clue as to how to do the photos.
Looking forward to your input.
Gerri
I would be more then happy to help you figure out how to post them.
if you have IM my yahoo ID is solowookie2
I didn’t think it was possible to organize fly tying materials “G”.
:rolleyes:Oragaize FlyTying Stuff?
Hearsay I Say… :lol:
ummm shouldnt that be “heresy”?? 
I’ve got all of my fly tying stuff listed on an Excel Spreadsheet. I was forced to do this when I came back to fly tying and fly fishing in 2000-2001. I had a lot of old fly tying material but very little memory of exactly what it was, the quality, quantity etc. I bit the bullet and recorded all of that inform plus location in my fly tying hoard. Once I had that done, all I had to do was keep the list update for new acqusitions and depletion due to use. It’s really nice to have instantaneous access to that information. 8T
hummmmm, yes, organize my materials. One of these days
Coughlin
Now when the sam tarnation am I going to get around to such a hair brained thang as that ??? lmao
I thought that the reason to have excess flytying material in the first place, is to cover up all areas of your desk / bench so you can’t see any wood. whenever I get a bigger table I have an excuse to get more stuff…
Mine is scattered all over my desk.
But now you guys have me eyeballing the drawers on the L side of my pile.
I have a library card file out in the shop for stuff out there, but having those 3 drawers back there would be really nice.
Now you have me scratching my chin…
Sonny,
In truth, I admire organization and try my best to achieve it, though my best is open to interpretation. In fact, my usual procedure is to tie a set (anywhere from a dozen or so to a few dozen)of a particular group (drys, nymphs, etc) and then clean and reorder the desk. This ranges from a quick swipe for drys to a thorough vacuuming for hair bugs. Of course, during the interim, things get pretty messy, especially when I’m tying the hairbugs. The good woman came into the tying room once in the middle of a hairbug marathon, took one look, and hasn’t been back since. To her credit, she said nary a word.
Coughlin
Whoa! Wait a minute, so it is true…you can organize your fly tying stuff!!! I thought that was a legend only :D.
I just put everything into a large tool box. lol
I’m in pretty good shape. Hooks are organized by size in a multi-compartmented box I got at Home Depot. Materials are sorted into feathers, fur and synthetics in three stackable plastic container boxes. This is the best I can do in my situation.
But I think the best solution I have seen did not involve a lot of drawers, bins or boxes.
The guy simply used a big used wooden office desk and organized his stuff in hanging file folders. I’d go that route, but I don’t have the hanging file space in my current office layout.
I started fly tying. Everthing was in a pile. When I needed something, it was in that pile. The pile got larger so I organized stuff into seperate containers. Before when I want3ed something it was in “the pile”. Now, I never know what container to look in.