Don,
You hit the nail on the head, I tied for shops and resorts for four years, It
can be a hassle. You have to be a person willing to spend the time at the vise
and be able to live with it. Personally I burned out to the point that I really
don't do a lot of tying now.
My best time was a dozen wollybuggers in 45 minuets if I had everything set up
beforehand.
Tony
--- On Sat, 11/14/09, Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com> wrote:
From: Don Ordes <f...@tribcsp.com>
Subject: [VFB] Re: Production Fly Tying for a living
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 9:50 PM
Jimmy,
I tied commercially - in the loooong ago past-
for a short time. Very Major
YUK!
For a professional tier, tying time is only a
portion of the time invested. It depends on how efficient you are, how
well planned your set-up time is, your tying facilities, etc. If you can
be efficient in all these things, the %age of overhead services
will be smaller. There's accounting, book-keeping, account payable,
accounts receeivable, bill collecting, sales, purchasing & problems with
supplies/suppliers, materials handling and control, shipping, etc. One
thing commercial tiers had was a huge box of waste necks with unuseable
feathers.
Take all the hats any business owner wears and the
professional tier has to wear them at some time. I estimated with all of
the time invested besides tying, the actual realistic
production time (tying) was about 50% getting started, and once
the bugs got worked out, about 70%. If you don't pay attention to the
support functions, it will fail. If you pay for the services, it comes
right off the top.
Competition from overseas tying has make commercial
tying here either starvation wages or hobby only.
So factor these things in with your
calculations.
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From:
Jimmy D.
Moore
To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 10:00
AM
Subject: [VFB] Re: Production Fly Tying
Book came
Wow, that's 36,000 flies a year! He tie them all himself?
If so, at my tying average speed of 2 minutes per fly, that translates
into 2 X 36,000 = 72,000 minutes % 60 minutes / hr = 1,200 hours at the
bench.
1,200 % 24 (hours in a day) = 50 days, if I tied 24 hours a day.
Now, considering that I "run out of gas" after about 4 hours at the
bench, this would mean that it'd take me 1,200 hours % 4 hours = 300 days to
tie the 36,000. DUH! Ain't gonna happen !! :-P :-( :-D
JIMMY D
chuckalexan...@hughes.net
wrote:
Folks; i received my copy of Production Tying by AK Best
today. Seems to be an awesome book. Can't wait to read it. The forward
tells
about how AK ties to sell over 3,000 DOZEN flies per YEAR. I can't even
imagine that, Chuck
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