Disasters during fly tying.

[wingman]

Just wondered about the things that can and do go wrong during a fly tying session. Since starting last November I have knocked over two bottles of varnish over a nice new desk and several thread bobbins in the post-tying excitement phase, ripped the back of a brand new faux leather chair on the back of my maplins magnifier lamp then tried to glue it with supaglu and have the glu drip right down the back of the chair leaving one big stain, shot myself in the face while cutting a kamasan hook in two with a pair of wire cutters ouch! getting up from my tying desk with the bobbin holder accidentally attached to my jeans with the thread attached to the hook in the vice and nearly pulling the whole vice off the desk (just after spilling the aforementioned varnish). There are plenty more which are too embarrassing to share, but you get the message. If you have any interesting or embarrassing fly tying escapades that you'd like to bravely share with totally sympatheric forum members then that would be most entertaining. Thanks for reading and let the entertainment begin


Please note - I will not be held responsible for any injuries incurred by forum members while laughing uncontrollably at any of the following fly tying faux pas that are brought to there attention, these include broken ribs, slipped discs, facial ticks, mental breakdown or rupured laughing valves. If in doubt please check with your doctor prior to reading this thread.



cheers

mark

[madjoni]

hahahaha ...nice one Mark

One fellow I know superglue his own eye so you are still good

[Mrtrout]

Flaming Norah Mark, sounds like it would be cheaper for you to just buy a few from Norris's.
Dropping a pack of 50 Kamasans is about all I have to report this week, all over a carpeted floor, it's at times like that, you realise just how wonderful a magnet is, until you only count 48 back in the box, two have simply vanished into thin air.
No doubt one will end up in my big toe shortly.
S.

[flyfisherlady]

I used to tie flies in my dining room. My ex skewered his bare feet on two consecutive days by my discarded and lost hooks. I felt guilty at the time, now I feel pleased. I am a bad person.

[wobbly face]

Don't know about funny, but tied some grass hoppers up (my own version so don't klnow if they'll work?) yesterday evening, came to tie some nymphs this morning and I couldn't tighten the vice to the hook. When I looked there was a foreign object in the jaws. I thought it was just some deer hair, tirned out to be the hook piont from my last grass hopper that I hade tied. Hopper in fly box had no hook point. Lucky I had discovered it before fishing but had to tie another. Habbit of burying hook point in vice, days of cheep vice and after wear ened up buryinig hook to hold it still, now have a decent vice but old habbits die hard. Finished my tying today with hook in normal place for tying, bend only.
I have snapped a few threads whilst appling hard wax, including using cobblers wax. Too much thread, too quick.
I have stopped drinking single malt when fly tying, don't want to waist any.

[wingman]

Originally Posted by madjoni

hahahaha ...nice one Mark

One fellow I know superglue his own eye so you are still good

Don't tell me madjoni he thought it was eyedrops instead.


Steven you shouldn't be throwing them kamasans away like that, you can borrow my metal detector if you like, how deep is your pile though, my detector only picks up stuff up to a foot down, you may need a spade.

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Originally Posted by flyfisherlady

I used to tie flies in my dining room. My ex skewered his bare feet on two consecutive days by my discarded and lost hooks. I felt guilty at the time, now I feel pleased. I am a bad person.

Isn't that sado masochism flyfisherlady? no wonder hes your ex...poor guy but he should have watched where he was walking, silly boy.

[brownsville]

Veniards No.7 [black] is kept in the same bottle as Tea-Tree essential oil.

I wont make that mistake again.

[shpeil]

Tying buzzers on curved grub hooks, I like to hold them in near the point so the whole curve is exposed. Having a cheapo vice with dodgy mismatched springloaded jaws, this has resulted in several pinging away like bullets. I did find one the other day. On the bottom of my sock...

[wingman]

Originally Posted by brownsville

Veniards No.7 [black] is kept in the same bottle as Tea-Tree essential oil.

I wont make that mistake again.

Now come on brownsville we fly tiers are supposed to be intelligent logical people. not stupid individuals, I mean I didn't chuck that springy thing and the metal arm jobby away that came with my new snowbee vice thinking they were some kind of protective packaging device did I?.......did I?

[brownsville]

You miss-understand me , I always wanted to be hung like a black man, but there ARE limits.