[VFB] Re: C & F Tools
I like and admire quality tools too. Like most I have climbed the price ladder. Today I'm sitting with a Dyna-King Barracuda and a Dyna-King Supreme... and with these two I'm at the point where I don't even look at other vises with the "please Santa" look. I'm 100% satisfied and can't imagine that I would be more satisfied even if I walk further up the price ladder. The C&F costs more than twice as much as my Barracuda... but there's no chance that it will do twice as much for me as the Barracuda. /Nick -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] För Neville Gosling Skickat: den 5 november 2009 22:07 Till: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Ämne: [VFB] C & F Tools Although I like and admire quality products and own a number of C & F fly boxes (from and end of season closeout several years ago) I think that you have hit the nail on the head this time. Neville (Nev) Gosling Greater Vancouver, B.C. Canada _ From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Niclas Runarsson Sent: November 5, 2009 12:37 PM To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: [VFB] Re: Peggy Brenner's Hopper Swap The C&F vise gives me a "dentist" or "brain surgery" tool impression... almost a sterilized or scientific look. It's a vise that fits the clean bench of a bacteriology professor (beside his electron microscope), not on a messy tying bench with piles of hair patches and bird skins. It suits Johan though, where he's sitting at the show tying the spectacular flies that he does. A Barracuda or a Dingo vise would almost make him look like the bacteriology professor student, sitting at home doing his homework using something his father borrowed from his work at Caterpillar Inc. LOL Personally I think some of their stuff is a little "too much". A half-hitch tool for $34.95, dubbing brush for $39.95, a hair stacker for $59.95. Not that I doubt the quality (and all of their stuff has a cool "look"), but in my opinion there's still a point where the value in money passes the practical value. I can't see how those tools will live up to their price tags... and I can't see how their (or any) vise can live up to a $799.95 price tag either. A little 'Rolex syndrome' I would say. But that's me. I like the "father's tool from Caterpillar Inc."-type anyway. Now I'm going to go and pet my bulldozers for a while. LOL /Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[VFB] Re: C & F Tools
I started in 1974 with a crest tools vise, which I still have but it needs repair. Prior to that, I'm not sure what I used, probably hemostats: My next vise was a Regal Inex purchased from Dan Bailey in 1984 for $45.00 new. I now use the Regal for tying tube and steelhead/salmon flies. I find that it is better with large hooks than small; My ex-wife gave me a very nice Dyna-King "Voyager" original model with the delrin base that is too lightweight, but good for travel and I take it on my trips; Then I went with a Renzetti "Traveler" original model with screw adjustment and I got on well with it; Then I received an old Veniard "midge" vise with some other older tying materials that my sister bought in an auction in England; I also have a no name "El Cheapo" that came in a small plano box of tackle that one of my neighbours gave me; Finally, in Feb 2009 I went to a fly fishing show Bellevue Seattle where I watched Norm Norlander tying with his Nor-Vise and I was hooked. Upon my return home, I started looking around for a secondhand Nor-vise and eventually got one a month or so later. Prior to that, I wanted but never got a Barracuda. I haven't looked back since! Neville (Nev) Gosling Greater Vancouver, B.C. Canada _ From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Niclas Runarsson Sent: November 5, 2009 1:46 PM To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: [VFB] Re: C & F Tools I like and admire quality tools too. Like most I have climbed the price ladder. Today I'm sitting with a Dyna-King Barracuda and a Dyna-King Supreme... and with these two I'm at the point where I don't even look at other vises with the "please Santa" look. I'm 100% satisfied and can't imagine that I would be more satisfied even if I walk further up the price ladder. The C&F costs more than twice as much as my Barracuda... but there's no chance that it will do twice as much for me as the Barracuda. /Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
