I like seeing fly tying desk/box/workspace photos. Here’s mine. It’s the table that I use for sewing, and I use the desk’s built-in drawer to store all fly tying materials (I don’t tie a huge variety of flies, so I don’t have a ton of materials). The vise is a $20 one from Cabela’s, and I made a bobbin cradle for it out of a red wire coat hanger. While I’m sure I’ll replace the vise with a more expensive one in the future, it’s worked well for me for a couple hundred flies so far.
I made a quick run to a box store and bought some lumber and made this desk over a weekend years back. I had to add the little pegboard wings on the hutch for additional room, along with the pop up shelf for the spools and tools (still haven’t bothered to stain it). I had thought about transforming my reloading bench into a tying bench, but thought better of it for sentimental reasons. I love to tie and tend to go off on tangents when I sit down to tie a pattern. I fish with western rods and reels as well and like to tie a variety of flies, from tenkara flies, to chironomids for my lake fishing, to double hook articulated streamers (aka Galloup style). There isn’t much I haven’t tried (and failed) with flies, but it makes me happy in the long Montana winters.
