Best Fly Vice

[geoff 2]

Please recommend a good fly vice in the £100-£200 range or vices to leave well alone............Thank you

[arkle]

Hello there & welcome along. What type of flies are you going to be tying, sea, pike/carp, river or lake trout, or ?

There's so much choice these days, & everyone has their favorite, personally & with quite a bit of tying experience I'd look seriously at the Dyna-king range as it's pretty comprehensive, very well built & grips like the jaws of death.

If you have a branch of www.theflydressersguild.org near you, go along & see what the guys there are using. They may even let you try them out.

[gus262]

I'm very lucky to have been in a position to try pretty much every high-end vice on the market, some costing hundreds of pounds and looking very cool; like they might transform into a NASA mars probe at any given moment. But I've yet to try something that would make me give up my Dyna-King. The quality of the tool-grade steel they use, and the simplicity of design might not endow them with 'Ferrari looks', but I tie from 8/0 down to #26 on mine, a hook is yet to slip, and that's after an estimated 35,000 hooks have passed through its jaws in the decade since I acquired it. Highly recommended.

[fredaevans]

Only by happenstance I was 'there' (Santa Rosa, California) when Grant King and a friend (a very accomplished machinist) first developed the proto-types. Grant had the 'vision,' but it was the machinist that figured out (in his garage machine shop no less) how to pull it off.

Being the only 'fly shop' (actually Grant had two) north of San Francisco to the Oregon boarder ... if you needed materials that's where you went. And got to 'play' with the new 'try this and tell me what you think.'

Fred

[oddgitt]

Anvil apex gets my vote for £100, or the atlas if you want the full rotary.

[cax]

Originally Posted by oddgitt

Anvil apex gets my vote for £100, or the atlas if you want the full rotary.

Look at the atlas Anvil - a very fine vice for the price, far better than many expensive ones.

[fredaevans]

http://www.flyfishohio.com/Vise%20Review%201/so_many_vises_$100-$150.htm

[dutchy1978]

I have recently replaced my vice and tried, well i think most of the vices out there, except the exotic home made stuff.. I think the Anvils offer a lot of vice for the money as do the griffin tools, DK's are nice too and there is also Renzetti.. Take your pick really i think in the upper region of your budget i would pick a DK..

Jerry

[geoff 2]

Thank you all for the input..............will have a look at the Anvils & Dyna-Kings

Geoff