[Mike Barrio]

How's about this one from Mauro Caracalli in Italy ....... pretty awesome

[Rob Brownfield]

Very nice indeed. I am sticking with my Apex Anvil although I fancy the rotary version. Its lasted 7 years which is not bad for something that routinely holds hooks from 4/0 down to 18.

[Jonathan Kerr]

hmm...that certainly looks like a beauty mike. 

i've been using a cheapo vice for the last 4-5 years. I have to say i've not really felt like i needed any thing else! the jaws have finally started to show a little wear though and don't grip smaller hooks quite as well. I suppose i'll be looking for an apex or something similar soonish. I will miss tying on a 20 quid vice though, when others spend hundreds and never use them properly!

[Marc Fauvet]

that thing might be nice to start a fire.... 

got this a month or so ago. seriously excellent 
http://www.flytyingboutique.com/product.cfm?product=1197#.UpRpcJFhyRo

marc

[Eddie Sinclair]

hmm...that certainly looks like a beauty mike. 

i've been using a cheapo vice for the last 4-5 years. I have to say i've not really felt like i needed any thing else! the jaws have finally started to show a little wear though and don't grip smaller hooks quite as well. I suppose i'll be looking for an apex or something similar soonish. I will miss tying on a 20 quid vice though, when others spend hundreds and never use them properly!

Like Rob,
I have been using an Apex for many years now and earlier this year I managed to break it. Rob reminded ne that it comes with a lifetime warranty and sure enough it was replaced immediately. Great service for a vice which although it is not 20 quid it is also not too expensive. I tie everything from tiny dries to salt water patters on mine and apart from breaking, probably operator error it has never let me down.

Eddie.

[Derek Roxborough]

 I have a regent this does every thing I need I have had it about 10yrs with no problems, I would certainly buy another, easgach 1

[Djordje Andjelkovic]

Last three years just NOR-VISE. Full with all four models of jaws. I never use better jaws - "Large Straight Jaws" for big hooks, rely BIG hooks.

And unique SEMI AUTOMATIC (or automatic) BOBBIN is the top FT products!

[Ben Dixon]

How's about this one from Mauro Caracalli in Italy ....... pretty awesome

So that's how "Kevin Muir" translates in Italian is it?  I'd always wondered 

Veniard #4 spring lever or the Scottie vice of similar design.  Either is fine, they hold a good range of sizes and grip / release them instantly.

Cheers

Ben

[James Abel]

I got a Dyna-king Supreme last trip home a nice xmas pressie for me I love I love it. It has helped me tie better but i'm still rubbish

[Euan Innes]

The vice in the first post is mingin'! I don't like that at all. Beautifully made I'm sure but slap me with a brookie, it is fugly.

I use a Veniard pedestal vice that I bought in 1995 from Murray's tickle and bums in Banchory, now a different shop entirely.
The base is very heavy and the jaws are very hard. I think 18 years of hard service is testament enough for it's reliability. No fancy adjustable head, wind up handles on the back or other fancy bits, just a vice with well made brass bits and good old steel.
Me likee old skool. 

 

[Mike Barrio]

Nothing wrong with Old School

Cheers
Mike

[Eddie Sinclair]

The vice in the first post is mingin'! I don't like that at all. Beautifully made I'm sure but slap me with a brookie, it is fugly.

I use a Veniard pedestal vice that I bought in 1995 from Murray's tickle and bums in Banchory, now a different shop entirely.
The base is very heavy and the jaws are very hard. I think 18 years of hard service is testament enough for it's reliability. No fancy adjustable head, wind up handles on the back or other fancy bits, just a vice with well made brass bits and good old steel.
Me likee old skool. 

 

Euan,
I have one of those in the back of my landie which is older than yours and although it is a bit beat up it is still functional.

Eddie.

[Euan Innes]

Euan,
I have one of those in the back of my landie which is older than yours and although it is a bit beat up it is still functional.

Eddie. cheers

They are workhorses Eddie. I can't imagine how many flies I've tied on mine, of all sizes, #0/2 to #28!

 

[Allan Liddle]

Happy with my early Christmas prezzie.  Regency Regal, stainless jaws, bronze travel base, very nice. 

[Mikael Högberg]

Hi!
I use Regal vice 

[Mike Thornton]

    In 1964 I visited a Mrs. Shiach, in Elgin, who was the widow of the head gillie at Ballindalloch on the Spey, for the purpose of buying her late husband's shotgun.  Along with the gun she threw in a box of old fishing tackle which included a scissors type , brass and steel, fly tying vice.
    Prior to this I had been tying flies using only my fingers as detailed in the 1952 edition of T.R. Henn's book "Practical Fly Tying".
     The vice which I was given was made around 1890 by a company called HOLTZAPFFEL who made ornamental lathes, and the vices were a factory spin off.  I understand queen Victoria owned such a vice.
     This vice served me well for over 40 years until I graduated to a vice with a rotating head.  I realized the old vice may be collectable, and so sent it to a Mullock & Madeley antique tackle auction in 2004.   It sold for £190.  That was my favorite vice!