Tying Station Design...Layout

[DOUGSDEN]

Ladies and Gents,
Oh, to be seated in your dinning rooms (You have a wonderful wife Ron) or spare rooms or garages (I liked that Johnno but I feel sorry for you) or Dens watching how these beautiful patterns come together. William, this thread is a grand idea. It is very interesting to see how different folks function to get the job done. The end result is always the same no matter how they are created or transported....beautiful flies from beautiful people!
My Den.....? It's a conglomeration of years of collecting fishing and tying and hunting stuff with a general mix of insurance paperwork sprinkled around (my wifes other job). It's a warm place to gather at the end of the day. Our computer, strangly enough, is not in the den anymore but in another room we call the new living room. I don't feel so bad about my call sign of Dougsden because the den still exist but I send out e-mails and such from another part of the house. How does Dougsnewlivingroom sound? Too wordy! I'll try and send a picture.
Dnlrm...

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Johnno and Vicki,

Just so you don't feel too bad, this is what my desk looks like when it's not tidied up for a photo. Unfortunately, my wife's tying area is always neat as a pin unless she's stacking or spinning deer hair. Then the place is a mess, but she cleans up right away.



REE

[William Anderson]

Ron, messy or not, your space is luxurious. So nice to have all that storage and I love the drawings of bugs on the wall. Very cool space.

Johnno...I saw your desk a few years ago when you first got sequestered to the garage. You still have a lot of elbow room. And some solitude isn't a bad thing.

Ray, nice spot. Looks like you've got it all figured out and seriously organized. I have to admit, if I tied as many different types of flies and for different waters and species, my system wouldn't work. I can see where you could tie about anything under the sun with that kind of set up.

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[John Dunn]

I really like these kinds of posts,it"s the only time things get to be organized.

Regards
John

[kanutripr]

Johnno and Vicki,

Just so you don't feel too bad, this is what my desk looks like when it's not tidied up for a photo. Unfortunately, my wife's tying area is always neat as a pin unless she's stacking or spinning deer hair. Then the place is a mess, but she cleans up right away.



REE

Ron is that pic when it's messy 'cause that's what mine would look like cleaned up. I think that's why I got evicted from the living room



Vicki

[willowhead]

i hadn't seen this thread before.....pretty cool. To see a ton of pics of our tyin' room, (as it was bout a year and a half ago.....it's on a WHOLE other level now), go to my site. http://www.pureartflytying.ning.com Then once you get there, (click on members), and go to my wife's (Misako Ishimura), page and scroll down to her slide show. Every member of my site has or can have, a slide show where pics they have posted revolve. The area at any one person's page where the slide show is.....is down at the bottom of their respective page(s).....so scroll down there quickly when you get to someone's page, or you may miss the first pic or two or three or.....lol.....no worries. If you do miss a few.....the slide show will come back around, and start over. There's over 200 pics of our tying room there, at my wife's page. Just type her name into the search spot at/for "Members" and you'll get to her page no problem. Or quicker yet, click on her picture where the "Featured Members" are, at the top of the page. You'll see a few pics of her artwork first, before the tyin' room pics begin.
i just took maybe 3 or 4 or 5 hundred more pics of the room, exactly as it is this moment.....but i'll be a while before they can be taken outta the camera and put on the hard drive and then transfered to my site......quite a while perhaps....."all good things." Just use your imagination for now and trust that the room is totally on another level now.....i'd say i've got it bout 90 to 95 percent where i want it now. It's only taken me since May of '07 when we bought this house to get that room where it now is...........go there and you'll soon realize why i REALLY don't like bein' on the road so much anymore. i mean the road is pretty much the only life i've ever known.....but stayin' home has become somethin' i can actually relate to nowdays.....and my tyin' room is why............heheheehehehehehehehehe............
p.s. every now and again....(for whatever the **** reason), the slide show may appear to stop, or be over.....it may not be. So put the cursor over the bottom of the picture/slide show frame, and click advance.....unless you see a LOT of pics of the room, the slide show is not over yet, lol.
p.s. 2. i found a better way to get you there QUICK! Just go here. http://www.pureartflytying.ning.com/profile/misako Then scroll down QUICK!

[Roadkill]

I build my tying tables to move around at various tying location. This is one of the latest small ones built to drop in a flip top box with flymph materials to take to tying expos.


There are 2 of them somewhere on my old tying table in my garage.

[kanutripr]

Really Mark (willowhead) REALLY?!?

That is the most AWESOMEST! room EVER!

I would spend the rest of my life in that room!

OK here's my tying/art room.









And here's our rod wrapping station (this is the junk/storage room and the only space left in our town house that was out of the way).



And then there's the corner in our living room where my rods, my second tying station and more of my books reside (I'll take a picture of that later).

edited to add pic - for some reason the photo keeps going sideways




Vicki

[willowhead]

That's one INTENSE table Roadkill, and Vivki, you certantly stay busy.....good on ya. Wait'll you see our tyin' room the way it is now........i love how you came up with that word.....awesomest. TO Cool...........the only thing the room lacks is a window or windows.....but the room just outside of it (the rest of the basement), has plenty of windows. And because there is no door on the doorway seperating the two rooms.....you still get plenty of natural light commin' in the main tyin' room in the daytime and it always feels "open." So it's not that big a deal.....but i do kinna wish it had one. Before we moved to Arkansas, i had two tyin' rooms at our house in N.Y. (couldn't get all that junk in one room ), and they both had windows.....so i miss that. But i spose it's a small sacrifice and to have all that room (space) is wonderful. Plus your right.....it's very hard to pry me outta there.

[Johnno]

A fairly normal state...