Tying tools

Wayne Luallens shows a couple of types of hair stackers for fly tying, including the closed end hair stacker.

Wayne Luallen shows how to sharpen the tips of your scissors to enable you to reach in a cut very close and precisely.

A fly tying tool tip from Wayne Luallen. Using the Wasatch Rotating Bobbin Threader. Find the Wasatch tool here.

Dubbing brushes are very effective ways of creating dynamic bodies on large streamers.

Staying organized in fly tying is essential, and in this brief tutorial, I share some bins that have helped me over the years.

Many people don't have or never use their material clips. That's a shame because a material clip can provide that often needed "Third Hand" we lack.

This ia a short tour of my tying room and photo studio here at home. Not the best filming but you'll get a good idea of how its layed out and works.

This easy to make dubbing brush/teaser tool has been a constant on my fly tying table for over a decade.

Fly tying gadgets are addicting, and this video features one that I use to create unique dubbing blends, a coffee bean grinder.

Fly tying gadgets are addicting, and this video features two I use regularly: razor blade tools.

Fly tying gadgets are addicting, and this video features one of my favorites, the magnetic bingo wand!

We get a lot of questions from people who are just getting into fly tying about what kind of vise they should purchase, and whether or not they need all the bells and whistles of a high dollar rota

This video is a quick "how to" on making EP style craft fur brushes.

This is a priceless little trick for improving the grip of most hackle pliers substantially!