This video is an introduction to our fundamentals fly tying series. Here we show you the essential tools that you need to get started fly tying. Check out our huge selection of fly tying tools and materials:
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Hey I'm Cory from AvidMax and right now I'm going to talk to you about the tools that you need to start Fly tying. so there's a lot of different fly tying tools out there some of them are very specialized but today I'm going to talk to you about the tools that you really need that are the basics to get started fly tying. so first and foremost you need a vise and the vise I think is probably the most important tool and the reason is if you have a vise that doesn't hold your hook tight enough or hold it in place the way that you want it you're going to be fighting that hook shifting and moving while you’re tying flies. so you don't have to spend a lot of money on a vise to get one that is are going to hold it in place correctly but typically the very very basic ones that have the little lever on the end those are the ones that are kind of hard to to deal with. We have a pretty good selection of fly tying vises that you can check out of that with avidmax.com as well as all the other tools and we're going to talk about today. So the next to that is probably the second most important tool is the bobbin and the bobbin is the tool that actually holds your spools of thread. The bobbin basically is what you hold onto as you are using the thread as you're tying the thread and you'll use this more than anything else so having a good bobbin is important. There's a lot of different types of bobbins out there they range from very inexpensive to pretty expensive. You really just kind of need to experiment with different types if you can and most fly tyers if they are really into fly tying will have three four five six different bobbins maybe they keep him spooled up with different colors all the time or they just like the way that one bobbin works for different types of materials but anyway that's a very important tool to consider the next thing that you're going to want to know about is a hackle pliers is used to hold a materials to either have them dangling from the hook or to grab materials and use them to wrap around the hook there's a few different things that you might use a hackle pliers for but it's a pretty essential tool to have to start fly tying. The next thing that you're going to want it is a Bodkin and a Bodkin is basically just a needle and that needle has lots of different purposes think of it as like a very small finger but you can use to adjust the material on your fly you can use it to apply head cement you can poke a hole through the eye of the hook too kind of clear it out there's a lot of different things that you would use this for. Some bodkins also have a half hitch on the back end of it and that's a handy thing as well half hitch is a type of knot that you'll use during fly tying to help you secure material and security or threading place that's not essential but the bottom part is essential. The next thing is a hair stacker is basically used if you're using deer hair or elk hair, or different types of hair and what you'll typically do is you put the hair down into the stacker cap the stacker they will pull it out sideways and then your hair is there that you can pinch and all of the tips of the hair lined up perfectly so that when you apply those to your hook it's all lined up exactly the way that you want it. So a hair stacker is very important. They come in different types of materials there's a brass aluminum steel lots of different versions some of the manufactures will tell you that the different material will decrease static which is kind of important when you're when you're using these because if the hair is staticky and sticking to the side of the hair stacker it's a little bit difficult to use. But that's also a very essential tool for fly tying. The next thing is when you're about ready to finish your fly is a good pair of scissors and scissors come in different shapes different sizes some of them are curved some of them have tension adjustments most of them have Micro serrations right here on the blade some of them are flat lots of different types of scissors I think most like ours will usually have a couple different types of scissors others also very fine micro tip. Razor scissors that you can use to really get into two very tight spots to trim different pieces of hair or material or whatever you're doing off of your fly but I would definitely recommend having a good pair of scissors very useful tool.
