Vise recommendation and/or opinion

[Nedak]

Stumbled across this site:  http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/Search/fly%20vise.aspx

wondering if anyone has any experience with this brand or styles.  Essentially looking for a pretty straightforward basic vise to tie bass and saltwater flies.  The small trout stuff seems easier to buy than tie plus my kind wife just bought me a mess of trout flies for Christmas.
 
I have been to 1 beer tie and checked out a vise or 2 but no decisions and am looking to purchase bf next Beer Tie.

Suggestions input welcome.

Thanks!

[TurbineBlade]

Those regal knock-offs work decently for tying flies on larger hooks -- I know, I got one and I have tied probably well over 100 flies on it now.  However, it tends to "shoot" size 16-18 hooks. "I won't be tying small flies" won't last long -- it didn't for me anyway.  ;) I thought the same thing too at first and I need to get a vise that is a bit better quality to do anything I want.  

[namfos]

If you want a rotary vise, Renzetti Traveler is great.  I love mine - I've had it at least 15 years - and it costs 50% more now than when I purchased it.  A couple of pros I know, prefer the Peak rotary vise.  There's a number of non-rotary vises that are pretty good and the prices are all over the map,  Renzetti's Apprentice vise is about a hundred bucks.

[Matthew Longley]

Nedak--I'd be a bit weary of some of the low-cost vices with lots of options/functionalities to them.  If I didn't have a vice, I would probably either get a simple, low cost clamp vice from a reputable brand, or I would drop a bit of change on a really nice rotary.  I still use the inexpensive clamp vice I got for christmas when I was 11.  If I upgraded, it would still make a great travel vice.

The more complicated components a cheap vice has, the more I'd worry about something working improperly.  Can't really go wrong with a simple clap vice (this week I used it to tie a few 22 midges and some 3/0 squid flies).  All you really need is something that will hold the hook securely.  If it doesn't do that, any other functionalities like rotation or adjustable jaw sets are useless.

[Aaron O]

Ok, so I have been reading everyone's post and the timing could not be better.  I have been using (and enjoying) a basic vice that I won at a beer tie, however I am having a harder and harder time with it.  The vice allows the hook to slip sometimes.  I have really liked the regals I have used at the beer ties and I admit I was looking at one of the cheaper versions/ (don't know if they are knockoffs) but now I'm hearing some issues with them.  I also dont know if you can use a spring clip to help hold the material back.

If anyone has other suggestions for vises in the $100 to $150 range, that would be great.  What I am looking for is a solid comfortable vice that can handle my large clouser hooks and the size 20 hooks I may tie in the future.  I do understand and agree that it is more important that it hold a hook well than to have all of the bells and whistles.  That being said,  I would love it if it rotated (I am planning to use some eppoxys soon and some of the patterns need to use a rotary vice to do it right.) but that is not a must. 

[John Kaden]

Aaron, et al

It seems like a $100+- would get me a good vise. I guess vises are just like the rest of the fly fishing sport...entry level will just cause "wasted" money bc eventually the fisherman will want a better X (rod/waders/vise) soon thereafter.

Guess I will see if increasing budget for the purchase will work.

Thanks again.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Aaron O <aa...@jorgeinc.com> wrote:

Ok, so I have been reading everyone's post and the timing could not be better.  I have been using (and enjoying) a basic vice that I won at a beer tie, however I am having a harder and harder time with it.  The vice allows the hook to slip sometimes.  I have really liked the regals I have used at the beer ties and I admit I was looking at one of the cheaper versions/ (don't know if they are knockoffs) but now I'm hearing some issues with them.  I also dont know if you can use a spring clip to help hold the material back.

If anyone has other suggestions for vises in the $100 to $150 range, that would be great.  What I am looking for is a solid comfortable vice that can handle my large clouser hooks and the size 20 hooks I may tie in the future.  I do understand and agree that it is more important that it hold a hook well than to have all of the bells and whistles.  That being said,  I would love it if it rotated (I am planning to use some eppoxys soon and some of the patterns need to use a rotary vice to do it right.) but that is not a must. 

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[HeaveToo]

I have been tying for 15 years on a $30 vice that I bought from ebay.  I have thought about getting a new vice but I can't justify the expense right now when I have two cheap ones that do everything I need.  Maybe someday, but it is so far back on my list of priorities. 

As long as it holds the hook firmly in place it is a winner!

[Matthew Longley]

Absolutely agree with HeaveToo... didnt mean to imply otherwise in my earlier post.  I have a well made but no bells clamp vice, could probably find for 30 bucks as well.  I tie tiny midges and dries, and huge saltwater or pike flies.  Rotating vices are cool, and sometimes I wish I had one, but there's nothing you can do on your rotating vice that I cant do on my vice.  At some point, maybe i'll spend that $150 on a new vice instead of tying materials or gas to the stream...