Best Fly Tying Vise For The Money – Reviews 2017

I just picked up the Griffin Odyssey Cam vice this winter to upgrade from my 30 yr old Griffin 2A. There is another model of it that I got, cost a little bit more but so far I really like it. Cost was around $125 vs. the $80 one. The only difference is it has a really nice machined cradle and a better turning handle. It has the cam lock jaws and it came with the c clamp but I use it in my old base. The shaft comes apart so you can take off a 2" section to use in the desk base and it sits lower. The jaws seemed very small compared to the old 2A but Ive been using it mostly with 3/0 and 4/0 hooks, and it worked nice on the 16 dry fly hooks too. So far not one complaint

I don't own an Odyssey because I have a personal (lame, pointless) issue with Griffin but it is a crazy good value. More important, it is just plain good.

I like my Regzetti (see photo)



I've had my Traveler for 17 years. It has a couple of upgrades at this point, but the standard Renzetti Traveler 2000 cannot be beat for the money and never let me down. Most of my flies are size 24-2, though I also tie on steelhead/intruder shanks a good amount.

I spend good money on materials and hooks/tubes...wasting time quibbling over a vise...I really like my norvise for simplicity and fucking
bombproofness.
Musky flies to micro tubes...I am gtg

Good stuff!

I'm surprised that was their answer...I started off with a hand-me-down $10 vise from India that worked...kinda.

After deciding I liked tying, my first big upgrade was to go to a Regal, on the recommendation of the two guys I'd learned the most from to that point, both of which tied on 25+ year old Regals, both still on the original jaws, and both of which still held a hook firmly enough that you could make a pretzel out of a heavy hook in either one of their sets of jaws.

After that I was true-rotary-curious, so I picked up a Dyna-King Trekker from a forum like this. It came used, but well taken care of, and it's held everything I've thrown at it, #22 to 2/0, rock solid, no question.

So in my nearly 10 years of tying, I've not even had to think about replacement jaws once. For a reputable name like that to tell you flat out to buy something extra to get basic performance seems like...low-effort...if not necessarily *bad* customer service. You'd think that they'd at least try to troubleshoot for you, or offer a price break on a set of replacements or something.