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I ran into a guy on one of our local forums where beginning fly tieing was being discussed. He was cleaning out his closet, and was willing to give me his stash of fly tying materials and equipment. So, not having much of anything, I took him up on it. What a generous fellow. There were vast amounts of feathers, hooks, dubbing, you name it, I got it. There was so much thread I needed to do something about it. (He used to work for Orvis.) I had some Cherry planks given to me by my Dad that were just sitting there. This one has a patch on it where the old boy obviously tested some Cherry stain. I left that there as a memory to my Dad. I know this looks like a porcupine, but I have a heck of a lot of thread now. I left a few hole for tools. Once this dries for another day, I will load it up. I think it came out ok. Thanks, Dad!

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Comment by Dohrman Crawford on March 2, 2015 at 8:54am
That's a good idea, I will whip something up
Comment by carl hendrix on March 2, 2015 at 8:30am

looks great Dohrman!!  will work great for spools of thread!  welcome to the bottomless pit of fly tying!!   as a suggestion;;  make another one of those;  with dowel rods;; get some alligator clips to put on them!!  when yo umake a fly or jig;; you can place it into the clip for presentation!!

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