Friends - in a continuing effort to “give back to fly tying for all that it has given to me” I have a Regal Inex Vise; in like new condition, midge jaws, clamp model, that I’d like to “Pay Forward” to some “Noobie or Want-to-be” fly tier.
1.) If you are a new fly tier or someone looking to get started fly tying (and you are on the honor system here) then pick and post a number 1 to 55, making sure not to pick a number that someone else has already picked in previous posts. If someone does this the first person to have that number will win the vise.
2.) Tell me why you would like to have the vise and that you agree to rule #4 below. The drawing is limited to the first 55 people responding to this post and posting a number and written response.
3.) On Monday 9/23/13 at noon I will close the PIF Give-A-Way and I will pick a number and contact the winner via PM. then mail your vise to you on my dime.
4.) And most important - By posting a number you agree to NEVER sell this vise it must be given to a new fly tier when your done with it who agrees to do the same… [b]and again you’re on the honor system, PIF and Good Luck!
Great Idea sir. My first vise was a Regal Inex and I regret the day in a moment of weakness I sold it. Should have done something similar, or held on to it for my kids to learn on.
It’s your business, but I don’t think you have quite enough hoops to jump through. Why all the stipulations? Give it to someone deserving and be done with it. If I have to pick a number, why would I have to agree to #4?
Chewydog - Yep, my vise, my rules or hoops as you say.
IMO, If picking a number, saying I need a vise and hopefully PIF when done with it is too many hoops for someone to jump through for a $100+ vise, then they probably won’t tie many flies because of the “work” involved anyway…
I’m just trying to promote “both” the sport/craft of Fly Tying and the PIF behavior…
If this qualifies, I would like to put in a guess for my 9 year old grandson, who just started to tie flies using my equipment this past winter – number 45.
This summer, he floated a couple days with me on the Yellowstone for the first time, and he fished non-stop the entire time.
I guess I don’t see having to pick a number and then agreeing to, someday give the vice away, as “jumping through hoops”.
This is a classy idea, Doug!!! I’m surprised there aren’t more “players” yet. If I qualified I’d be all over this like a hungry brook trout on a well tied Adams!
chewydog posted:[b]It’s your business, but I don’t think you have quite enough hoops to jump through. Why all the stipulations? Give it to someone deserving and be done with it. If I have to pick a number, why would I have to agree to #4?
[/b]Easy answer - If someone is agreeable to #4, they are deserving of this great offer and, yes, it is Doug’s business and he would feel real proud to know that someone deserving got this vise and would be willing to pass it on instead of just posting to give it away and have someone who maybe does not even tie, jump on it and then sell it for some pocket money.
I wholeheartly agree to the terms put forth because there are just too many people in this world that would “lie” about needing this great vise just so they could put it on the internet to sell and make money. I know they could still do this with the guidelines put forth, but, it is still worth a try. Doug’s heart is visible in this offer because he is trying to get this vise into the hands of a new tyer who may not be able to purchase a quality vise at this time. If he just wanted to give it away, he could. He has a desire to further a new tyer’s adventure and will feel better if he thought maybe someone would use this vise and pass it on. It is a “roll of the dice” for Doug, but, well worth the try. I am proud of him for doing this. This is the kind of “sharing” that has made FAOL what it is today and why FAOL has lasted all these years.
Folks, it is not the money that makes some feel good. It is the good feeling someone gets knowing that they have made someone’s day by giving them something they needed and wanted and just could not afford. Thank you Doug for helping out a new tyer.
I don’t know what the internet circumstances are out on the boy’s ranch in Tullahoma, but I hope Warren can get all the interested boys in the drawing for the vise. It’s a very nice thing Doug is doing and a very nice vise for a beginner, it maybe better than the vise I am using now.
