A three needle CDC winding tool made by marryat, makes cdc wings fantastic and I would be seriously lost without it.
best tool on the bench!!!
Bookers 126 proof
makes everything so much better… 
do what u like, like what u do
I like to have a 14.Cal and a 17.Cal bore brushes on the bench for teasing fur on flies with. Best thing I have ever found for doing it. The 17. can be ordered in a gun shop the 14. cal may be harder to find. I also have a 22. Cal for larger flies.
You can make your own threaders just by going to the local music store and asking them to save the bottom “E” string off of guitar’s that they restring for people. Most will keep them for you for free. I have a life times supple now. You just cut the wire to the right length and fold the wire over and crimp it and then epoxy the two lose ends into a small object. I use empty 22.Rifle shell cases. I also use larger .223 cases they will set on the bench well.
Just a nice thing to make for someone. I have made several of these over the years and given them to friends. I look for old beat up cane rods that are broken. I find them now and then at yard sales. I cut the cane to length and use it as handles on the tools I make. I use a nice size sewing needle for a dubbing needle. I just drill a small hole down the shaft of the cane rod piece and epozy the neelde into place. I do the same with one of those little things that the dintest uses to clean out a tooth (Don’t know the name) they are used for teasing the bodys of flies. I also do a threader this way. They make nice lookind gifts. Ron
I may have missed it above, but I consider a hair stacker indispensible. Many of the tyers above seem very experience and probably stack by hand. But, I haven’t been too successful stacking that way. So, I use a medium sized stacker for everything from Elk Hair Caddis to Muddlers.
Oh, and The Macallan or a Jack & Coke (don’t drown Jack!) is a must!
V/r.
Adam
Despite the ability to do it by hand; I would be lost without my Matterelli Whip Finishers.
Besides the obvious; I use that little hook on the end to pick out the occasional errant wrap and a hackle fiber or two.