Rich Kovars
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Well…I have the Renzetti traveller and its hanging in there with the cam jaws and I too considered the Dingo and Dyna King.
I’ve only heard good things about the Dingo Zach.
What I would warn you away from would be the Vosseler. It has the suction base but the hook holding design is flawed and not user friendly when production tying.
have you considered Mongoose? I think its a US brand and Pete Carty (Commercial tyer here in NZ) absolutely loves his after buying discussion with Scott Sanchez at last years one fly. I had a go on it and it seemd pretty good? 😕Are you talking about the Griffin Mongoose?
Speaking of wind, it is my experience that the fish will be facing into the wind (more often than not).
Zack,
The only thing to note here is that you need an FCC license to use a radio in the GRMS band (most of these radios are – that is what gives you the added range).
Great topic! Here’s my setup. It is still a work in progress. The desk I got at a place called the Mill Store. We have several up here in the Northeast. You get pretty good deals on unfinished furniture. This one is called the postmaster I think. I paid around $100. I could install thread storage in the top piece, but I like the racks on the wall better. I use UNI thread and they have a great color coded label system so I know what gauge of thread I have just by the color of the label. On the wall I get to see everything at a glance.
The thread racks I got at Walmart in the craft section. The Gerstner toolbox serves as a tool/supply cabinet and a travel box.
I drilled a 2 1/2″ hole in the top over the drawer. I have a nice wooden box that sits right under the hole and captures all of my excess material. Works pretty slick.
If you look close in the bottom right, that is a rod rack I made from a table I got at the same store. I think I paid $35 for it. I drilled 2 3/4″ holes in the top. Really great for storing rod tubes. Of course, below the hat on to the left of the Gerstner is a dormer beer fridge.I still have some finishing and stain work to do. I also bought a nice display wrack, but I don’t have pics of that. I put some of the reels I have collected on it and I also use it to dry out the reels I still use.
I have a rod making table set up in the same area of the basement. There is a nice wood stove to the right of the tying desk. In the winter it is a very inviting place to sit and tie.
I eventually want to replace the plastic storage bins under the Gerstner with something that is wood. I like the Gerstner roll around and toolbox base, but I am still looking for cheaper alternatives. So far I haven’t found anything that would look quite right.
In my experience it makes the nylon translucent. As a rule when I am building rods, I break out a dowel and do a couple of wraps when I am not too sure about a technique. I have one with about 20 different, really crappy, wraps on it. 🙂
I’ve been using the Flex Coat color preserver and I find it okay. The technique I use is to thin the preserver 50/50 with distilled water for the first two coats. This allows the preserver to penetrate the thread better (both nylon and silk). The last coat I put on full strength. I haven’t had any trouble getting smooth coats using this technique.
I think I read about the technique in a paper from Goldenwitch about doing feather inlays. Seems to work good.
If you’ve ever tried to fall asleep in a tent on the beach in a 20 mph wind $3K begins to not look that bad.
Up here in the White Mountains of New Hampshire where the winds regularly get in the 100 mph range in the winter (the record is 231 mph set in 1931 – I think, at the summit of Mount Washington) no matter what tent you have it sounds like a 50 cal machine gun in your ear.
It’s really funny, in a lot of tech podcasts I listen to Mac users are more comfortable with Vista than Windows users are.
