Slide Inn Q&A #12 - Choosing the Right Fly Tying Scissors
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2017
- In this Q&A segment, Rob Roser asks:
" There are many different kinds of scissors out there marketed for fly tying. Straight, curved, serrated, smooth, etc. Problem is I find many of them to be junk. Could you discuss what you look for when you select scissors - and perhaps whether you use different scissors for deer hair than you would for other tying? Finally, could you show us your technique for tying while keeping your scissors in your hand?" 
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Great Q&A. Love hearing others' views on various tools and suggestions for their uses. Thanks! 👋👋👏👏👏
and I keep'em as a....I don't know why I keep'em. LOL! Love the honesty and all your videos!
As usual Kelly, very helpful, and timely since I need new scissors. I was given curved a couple years ago and the big disadvantage is they of course don't cut straight. My frugality lesson is learned.
I use the dr slick razor scissors, they are the best scissors I've ever used period. they will do bulk cutting and fine cutting and there is an adjustable tension knob. i tie every day, they are amazing. one time my girlfriend used them to cut cardboard and a piece of wire and I let her have it; you should only use your tying scissors on tying materials, but do not cut wire! take care of them and they last and stay sharp
Never ever forget Me Slattery Leaky Louie and Devane fishing Quake what a riot
Then going to leaky's trailer to partake of some 1792
One the empty bottles I still keep on my fly desk
Great job
Kelly
Thanks Kelly, I need some scissors and your tips helped alot! My jo-Ann opens at 10:00!! 😂
Finally! Figured it was that simple, but without buying and trying each and every scissor, how would you know? I almost use the Dr. Slick 1" exclusively, even with hair, even though I have Dr. Slick hair scissors too. But then, I don't tie all that much.
I highly suggest learning how to sharpen scissors and knives. Scissors are a little easier to sharpen than knives which is the good news as far as this video is concerned. But I made a concerted, prolonged effort to teach myself freehand sharpening a few years back and it’s made an enormous impact on all of my tool usage. Once you experience truly sharp chisels, knives and scissors, you wonder how people function otherwise. It’s a night and day difference…
This was your best informational vid blog yet ...#puremichigan
I failed to mention the tension knob scissors, I did in the first shoot we did but Johnny said I rambled on too much in that one and made me do a second one, now you know why I pick on him. I think they are fine but a little bulky in the hand for me, still really good scissors but i never found the need to adjust so I went back to the regular style. The Black Rising scissor that are on my right that I forgot to mention have been really good sellers and everyone who has commented to us has said they really like them and that goes for the Dr. Slick version as well. Like I said, its a tool. If it works for you that's all that matters. And for sure if you want them to last only use them for what they are made for, see Sir Megallot's last two sentences below.
TheSlideinn with all the stuff you talked about regarding big fish sitting in 3 foot of water or less, and being in slow pockets close to shore, where would you say most of the "big lazy pigs" hold in a river section that has no rapids/ripples at all and almost looks still?
Hello Mr. Galloup, Do you know Marc Petit-Jean (Swiss)? He has modified or invented tools to tie our flies more easily. Scissors, Magic tools and many others... I hope it will help. By the way, your great imagination make already a revolution of one fly. Thanks for your streamer! Here demonstration video: ruclips.net/video/Bbx17vDNiE0/видео.html
Christ, I can't believe all the off topic comments below- ask about fly patterns somewhere elsewhere...
That said, you didn't say anything about the Rising scissors to your far right. I bought a pair from you last summer after some of your videos last year and they have been stellar. Last summer you were non plused after DeVane had pounded your desk like a woodpecker, but has your opinion on them changed? I like that you state your mind and why, no ifs ands or butts. I just listened to your podcast at Reno fly shop and laughed my ass off after hanging around your shop during salmon fly season this last decade or so :-)
I love your honesty. Even if you could sell more stuff. Bam! In your face. I like it.
As a former finish carpenter I know what you mean about touching your tool.
Poor choice of words but still... Anyway maybe I'll throw away the all scissors that are dull, but they could be used for something I just haven't figured out what yet. Anyway great piece, keep 'em coming.
I think that there is more to it than just the tip being the same size for the small vs regular size scissors debate. There is a sort of gearing, where the shorter length jaws will move far less per distance of finger/thumb opening distance than a longer distance will. This gives you a bit more control over the cut. You'll also get a lot more force on the smaller length of cutting edge on the smaller scissors.
Will it make much difference for almost everything we do? Probably not, but there is a difference in function.
Good points for sure. KG
Hi Kelly!
I'm a new fly Fisher and tier from Finland and i've been flyfishing and tying flies for about a year now. I was wondering if you could do some sort of video for us newbies out here, in which you would recommend patterns and flies to start tying and fishing with. with so many flies out there its hard to navigate where to start.
best regards, Juho V.
Great QA! I especially liked the lesson on how to hold scissors while tying.
Next up is QA 13. AHA. Are you going to skip the unlucky number or take it head on? That is the real test of you and your crew. Do a QA on Luck. I can't wait to see what happens. In the shop, will things fall off the shelves, tools disappear, thread break, cement bottles be dry, hackles snap in the middle of wrapping...? On the water, will Kelley slip and fall in, will rods come apart at the joints, tippets snap, hook points break off, lines tangle, tubers appear from nowhere...?
I dare you.
What is your favorite winter and summer flies
One of these days Johnny is gonna snap and dump ALL your hooks into one big CLUSTER F... of a pile...might even drip some glue on your spools too!!!!🤣
What about the scissors with adjustable tension?
Can you talk about nymph fishing and when you would and different ways to cast
get a whetstone and some honing oil......a few swipes and they are sharp again
Great, informative video. Wondered what you thought of Hard as Nails
Jerry, used it for years, but it is just another lacqure no real difference that I have seen. Thanks for watching.KG
Love the storage chest of draws right behind you. Can you share where you got it?
Sonny, the top set are really old and came from the Paul Young bamboo company, the bigger ones below I built.
Do I dare admit... On a Tuesday night in May I sat and watched Kelly Galloup talk to me about Scissors...? What's next? The dark side of Bobbin Threaders...?
do you have an online storeAnd I have not seen all your videos working through them Is ther one where you go over the whip finish and the tools to tie them
John, I do have an on-line store. We have not done the whip finish video yet but it is on the horizon. I keep getting asked to show how I do my whip without the tools so we will do both with and with out. thanks for watching.
Next time I'm through your parts I'm going to have to meet Johnny!
We have a saying in custom guitar making ........ teh finer the finish - the sooner it scratches. Same with scissors. Finer the point - sooner they get damaged.
Yes you right but caution and care is more important think no chance a little mistake in this if scissors put down then waste point even scissor
Would you want to sell your old scissors? I am sure I can sharpen these and get them back up and running!
Who makes the light on your table? Thanks
Rich, That's an old Giraffe light and unfortunately they went out of business several years ago
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Which model fiskars do you use?
Number 5 Stitcher Scissor
It's worth having an informed conversation about this, with the hair dressing professionals sometime. The profession hair dressers don't call their scissors, scissors. They refer to them, as shears. They pay anywhere from five hundred and upwards, dollars. They're a personal thing, and they refer to them as shears. The shears are then periodically sent back to the manufacturers, where they are professionally serviced by the makers, who are able to put the edge back on. The whole point I think, of paying that kind of money in the first place, is that the amount of time between re-edging, re-servicing of shears, is longer.
The dress making trade then, is another professional branch, who invest a lot of time and effort to ensure quality in the product. The Fiskars come directly from that profession, the dress making and curtain making, interior decorating 'trade'. Which is a proper trade, or even a profession at the highest level - as in haute couture etc. By going for the Fiskar type, one is gaining a benefit from the standards and quality control, in tool making that is necessary to underpin a massive industry, like interior decorating and tailoring.
At some level down below that, then there are the fly makers. But we do, do our best, I guess. The nice thing about fly tying though, is that there are choices. Like, there are the Swiss tools for fly tying, that have a lot of influence coming in from surgical instrument making, and watching making. Also, the Italian makers in fly tying are good too. The Japanese of course, make those excellent fly boxes, fly making tools and so on. The Americans make some outstanding quality stuff. The British even, now and again, aim to establish a level of quality in fly tying tools. I don't know if I'm leaving anyone out. I'm sure that I am. The Austrian's I guess, as in the Roman Moser stuff. Even the Scandinavian designs, tools and materials too, because they understand and appreciate what it takes, to work in Ice-run-off conditions, and kinds of tackle needed there.
The one thing, that no one seems to have cracked so far, is how to make a product like a chest wader, that will put up any battle at all, in salt water fly fishing conditions. There's a product called 'Bass Boots' from United Kingdom that appears to have made significant leaps there.
Lee Wulff, when asked to name what tool, or piece of equipment that he found had improved the most through technology and manufacturing in his time. He said, that's easy. Leaders. He started out fishing for salmon on a six foot fly rod, and his leaders had only about two pounds of breaking strain, although he played fish that were ten times that weight. Over and out.
The other thing that's start to appear here, are services provided by off-shore drilling wet suit gear repair services. Where they can replace the 4mm neoprene socks that are attached to the bottom of Goretex multi-layer chest waders. One finds this, that a Goretex chest wader can have life still left in it, but because of all of the walking over miles that one can do, to access rivers often, the neoprene socks are on their last legs and begin to go, long before the chest wader itself has succumbed to the ravages of time and wear. Over and out.
I picked up a pair of the Fiskars #5 scissors a couple of days ago and find them to be very comfortable in the hand. I've quickly come to prefer them to my regular fly tying scissors - Thanks for the tip Kelly!!