$50-$100 Nippers: Update

Thanks to Buster Wants To Fish, we now have learned that Abel offers their $50-100 nippers in multiple colors and fish prints.

They look sweet enough to carry every where, not just on the water. (but, they are still $50+)

Check 'em out!

 

 

LINK to Abel

6th Finger Scissors

Singlebarbed sent a box of 6th finger scissors for the prizes at Guys, Flies & Pies next month. Since many of you are going to be lucky and take a pair of these home, I thought I'd point you to the original write up he did about them.

Check it out here!

The scissors are designed to fit in your hand the whole time while tying. The spring action makes it simple to make a quick snip without fumbling for the scissors or 2 finger loops. Slip these on and don't worry about taking them off until bed time! 

Check out the 3 types of these he has!

I hope to give a pair a workout at the vise before the event to see how they perform!

monoMASTER

www.monomaster.com 

Ever heard of the monoMASTER? Since the beginning, we've been giving some away at the Guys, Flies & Pies event. Grasshopper Outdoors has designed this great tool to help manage waste mono. You know, the stuff that ends up in your pockets, waders, or tangled around your boots?  Now there's a way to easily pack it out when you leave the stream!

How it works: Simply take the mono you don't care about any more and place it in the slot, then twist the post and it winds up INSIDE the container. Once you are back home, you open the container and run a pair of scissors up the groove and the mono comes off and into your garbage can. Simple as that.

Grasshopper Outdoors offers a few more products too. They have hats, zingers, and furled leaders.

Thanks again to Grasshopper Outdoors for supporting our event!!!  Now, if they'd just make a 3 foot long deskMASTER that will clean off my tying desk!

Check them out at www.monomaster.com

$50-$100 Nippers???

Abel is offering nippers for $50-$100! I just gotta say "WOW"!  Sure, they look sweet, and have a cool little pin near the blade to help open the hook eye up....but $50 for the pair? Let's look deeper. They DO offer "free" blade replacement for the first 3 years (although they said they "cut forever") if you pay the shipping and handling. So, for $50, plus S&H charges, you can buy a sweet looking pair of nippers and know that for the first 3 years you can cut your line or holes in barbed wire fence, and have them as good as new in a few days.

Innovative anglers' nippers, remarkably guaranteed to last and cut forever, have been developed by Abel Reels. The new precision machined aircraft grade aluminum leader nipper has replaceable jaws - similar to Abel's award-winning pliers - made from a superior grade stainless steel.

"These modern nippers are total departure from traditional line cutters which are usually just an adaptation of old fashioned nail clippers . . . just the kind of creative, Twenty-First Century thinking anglers expect from Abel," said Don R. Swanson, president.

Tests were done on line weights from 7X fly-fishing tippet material to 100-pound test mono. Shop tests indicate the nippers are good for thousands of cuts of monofilament line and tippet material.

Should blades ever need replacing, they will be done at the Abel factory by paying shipping and handling only, for the first three years. After three years a minimal charge of $10 will be added to the handling fee.

The Abel Nipper is 1-3/4 inches long, 3/4-inch wide and tapering to 1/2-inch wide at the jaws. It weighs seven-tenths (.7) of an ounce. A needle used to clean hook eyes is integrated into the jaws.

"The critical cutting edge jaw is Crucible CPM S35VN, an American made and developed premium grade stainless steel created especially for knives. It is powder-made steel with a uniform carbide distribution and clean steel properties. The steel is heat treated and hardened to a Rockwell factor of 58-60. As a blade material, it offers excellent corrosion resistance and superb edge qualities," said Swanson.

The Abel Nippers are designed to be attached to a retractable spring-loaded device, clipped to a fishing vest or worn with an angler's necklace.

Abel Nippers will be available at authorized dealers beginning Dec. 1.

The Abel Nipper is priced at $50 in black and solid colors, with hand-painted fish graphic versions at $100.

I have to admit, I've been using a pair of nail clippers (likely cost about $1) for probably close to 10 years. However, I've had to replace my wife's nail clippers ($1 version) a few times of the last few years.  I think they have been making the nail clippers differently and it causes the lever thing to fall off when she connects them to her zinger the way we like to. So...maybe a $50 investment, over time, is a better way to save money....maybe.

LINK (Looks like it might not be a permanant link, so don't be surprised if you see a different product!)

Power Dubbing Twister

Here's some photos from a friends powered dubbing twister. The black board is just the base. The light wood has a groove in it where you lay down a piece of wire, cover with dubbing, then cover with the rest of the wire. Once he hits the button it spins up the material into a dubbing loop in about 2 seconds. This is a great way to premake dubbing brushes quickly.

Bobbin Tip Replacement

Let's say, hypothetically of course, that your 2 year old son grabs your bobbin and somehow, using the power of saliva, removes the ceramic tip. Don't toss it out just because it now cuts thread, but replace the tip with a bead.

Click here to see the full step by step!

Trout's Eye View(tm) Fly Tying Mirror

I saw it first at Moldy Chum (so go check them out). But check out www.troutseyeview.com for the real deal!

A little mirror setup to let you see how your fly looks upside down and wet. I think this is pretty cool!

RITE Half-Hitch MAG Bobbin

At the IFTD show a few weeks ago Rite introduced a new bobbin with a tapered thread tube. Check out the video for the tricks it can do.