If you had to do it all over would you spend $40 for a profile plate again?
Want one for the new DK but the $40 price gives me pause.
Sorry, I’m cheap. :mrgreen:
Clay,
My Snowbee-Waldron Vise came with a prpofile plate and I loved using it. Really eased the eye strain. However, when I’m tying at shows people can’t see what I’m doing if the profile plate is in place. I’m so used to tying without it now, I don’t use it. Keeping a clear background to your vise helps a lot.
REE
I have the DK profile plate in white. I would get it again. I want to get a gray plate too because that is a better background when working with white material, which I do a lot since I tie a lot of clouser minnows, deceivers, etc.
I have also used white and light gray sheets of felt as backgrounds, but never found an ideal way to mount them with my tying setup. I have my vise in a DK extension, held away from the table and below the table top so it is down closer to my lap. I needed to do this because of a should problem. The DK profile plate and mount works pefectly with set up, the plate actually being about 45 degrees from horizontal.
Find a flat pastel paint & paint just about anyting. Luciliy I work with fiberglass & I made one sea mist green and used welding rods to hold it up…I’m cheap too!!!
What model DK do you have?
Full size Barracuda.
$350 for the vice but too cheap for the $40 profile plate? Whats wrong with this pictrure?
I’ve never used a profile plate, but never felt the need for one. Early in my tying, I built myself a tying bench with a white background on it so that when I’m tying I see the bench. But if I’m doing demonstration tying, they aren’t bothered by anything. I just have to keep the bench clear so as not to make the background ‘busy’.
TxEngr
I’m cheap. I find a book with a greenish cover (Bates’ Streamers) does the trick.
Coughlin
Cheap bastids don’t have to make sense. Besides, I bought the vise on sale! Now find me a $25 profile plate and maybe I’ll bite. I spend money, but I always have a problem letting it out of the wallet. 
Thanks for all of the good comments on the profile plate. I’ll keep my eye open for one, I need to upgrade my bi-focal perscription and get the profile plate and hopefully I will have less eye strain. It’s a pain getting old. 
OK, found one for $24 at Bear’s Den and not the $40 retail price. What color do I want and why? This is what is available:
White, Neutral, Grey, Black, Pale Blue
Clay,
I wear a 3x magnifyier clipped onto my glasses. That does the trick in terms of relieving eye strain.
Coughlin
Thanks for the tip, I should try something like that.
I just use a shirt cardboard from a dry cleaner- it’s got a white matte finish on one side and a gray finish on the other- I just prop it up behind the vise. It really helps to knockout the distractions in the background. Or just staple whatever 2 background colors of stationery or construction paper to any piece of cardboard give you he best contrast against light and dark materials, one on each side. Simple and cheap.
Tailing loop- since you have a profile plate already, you could try some construction paper in whatever color/s and those black plastic pinch clips used for holding paper together from Staples (or wherever) to put different backgrounds on the plate you have.
As for plate colors, i think pale blue would give you a good contrast between both light and dark materials (compared to either white or black), and you’d be less likely to lose colors like creams, light gingers and duns (compared to a neutral or gray background). Just make sure it will fit the stem of your vise.
mark
I asked this in this thread earlier, but it was toward the bottom of a long winded post 
So what color does everyone like for their profile plate?
These are the DK colors
what the heck is a profile plate?
Is it the background behind your fly, so you can see what you are doing? You need special ones for each vise?
Hey, DG. Cool, a man that understands that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. I often ask the questions that many others might have as well but it takes a certain amount of self confidence to be able to step up and really ask. That’s a compliment.
So here is a picture of a Dyna-King Profile plate. They allow you to see the files edges and “profile” more clearly so you can catch small errors while tying. They are easier on the eye and produce less eye strain and they make great backgrounds if you put the camera in macro mode and shoot pictures of your flies. All of these things I have heard while reading about this option and thus that is what prompted the question. I don’t know these things from personal experience, but I hope to very soon.
Still haven’t received much if any feedback on color. I have it narrowed down for me to the powder blue. Anyone have any problems with the blue as a background color?
Clay the only reason I have used one is to shoot pictures for swap flies. The only colors I have used are copy paper white and hanging file folder green. I would suggest you make yourself one, then find paper cardboard cloth etc to test different colors to see what is best for you.
BTW, my wife is a special ed teacher, the color of the paper and print make it easier or harder for people to read, unfortunately everyone is different, and needs different colors to get best performance. Any colors that work for me might not work for you. (the blue would put my wife right into a migraine)
Eric
Interesting about the Blue into a migraine for your wife. I remember studying colors for industrial applications in the work place. Blue was said to have a soothing effect on Most people.
blue has soothing effect, the trouble is when she tries to read print on blue then it causes problems, I have to guess that trying to work out the fly from the blue background would have the same effect.
Eric