Rotary Vice

[Highlander]

Chinese factory goods as long as you are not paying UK factory prices! 

Probably but in the mix you can add Mr Waldron's name to it as well. It  is by all accounts a good vice but too pricy for my pocket.

Best one I have found in the cheaper end & rotary to boot, though I seldom have need of rotary with what I tie.
A FlyMate around £60  I have had mine 8 years & whilst there are were few niggles which I sorted it is good value for money.
Tight Lines

[Wildfisher]

What I need is a vice that:

1. has nothing  behind the jaws to impede access and

2.  at the same time will allow the fly  to be fully rotated in the same plane.

The vice I have  does not do this because the head has to be tilted up at a steep angle in order to satisfy condition 1

[johnsd]

I have the fly mate but as anyone who has seen my flies they probably think I use a woodwork vice.cheers John

[bibio1]

Try ebay. Plenty of cheap ones.

[Andrew Moray]

Hello Alan,

& Andrew Moray who post here have one

It's the Snowbee Waldron I have.
The lad we both know who had one, another former pupil of yours, sold his recently.
He sold it to the first decent offer, if he were a less honourable man, he could have gotten more, there were 3 people after it, offering goats and goodness knows what else, probably wummin, on top of cash.
He got twice what he paid for it.

True to form though, I did buy a thing or two from his stash 

HTH,
Tony

[Wildfisher]

I have the fly mate

That looks like  a nice vice John, based on the law design. How firmly does it hold the hooks?

[squeakytyres]

The snowbee fly mate looks good but it may not have features like the grooved jaws  you might find on more expensive vices. Might  that be an issue with very small or very large hooks?

[garryh]

i was tempted by the anvil atlas £149 .might succumb yet

Garry

[Inchlaggan]

I own the anvil atlas, does what I want. Got it for £99 though, some years ago.

[Wildfisher]

I have an Anvil Apex. Good quality  but hopeless for rotating flies. I do like the look of the Atlas though