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Dwclapp
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by Dwclapp » Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:00 am
I'm sure some of you do the same thing, but my epiphany moment came this morning while sitting at my tying desk with Wagner's "Die Walkure" playing loudly. I began looking at my small box of hooks and figured there had to be a better way of figuring out what I had and what I was out of. I have tried hook boxes but they get mixed up and have to be re-labeled etc. After a bit of searching, I came across some business card holders that fit in a 3-ring binder. Huh, the Umpqua and TMC hook baggies fit in there perfectly.
Oh... in my sons room there are some baseball card sheets for the 3 ring binder as well. Daiichi and Gamaktsu packs fit in those perfectly...
Hey I have a hook organization system that may work for a large % of my hooks... Now what to do with the Dai-Riki hooks boxes....
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by letumgo » Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:31 am
Great tip, Darin. I will be adding a few of these sheets to my 3-ring organizer. Thanks for sharing.
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by narcodog » Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:48 am
Nice idea for those that buy small packs. I try to buy my hooks in 100 packs. I prefer the old TMC hook files. I buy them whenever I run across them.
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by paparex » Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:01 pm
I, too, buy in 100 pcs allotments. I repackage the 100 pcs in zip lock bags the same size as the Tiemco-25 and print the Hook Type, size, length etc on a paper I slip into the bag. (Yes, I buy non-Tiemco, Umqua, Dai-Riki, Daiichi hooks too. My favorite supplier is
http://www.flydesk.com). The baseball cards/business card idea is a great one. I'm off to Office Max now.
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William Anderson
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by William Anderson » Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:15 pm
Wagner has inspired some grand ideas and highlighted some brilliant moments, but this...this is great. Nice idea.
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by tjd » Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:18 pm
Wagner...Apocolypse Now/The Heart of Darkness...The quote "The horror of it" sums up my unorganized approach to hook organization. The best I ever seem to do is a large zip lock bag of a hook type inside a large plastic Rubbermaid tote. Playing "Where's Waldo" with a specific hook style starts nearly all o my tying sessions!
Great ideas, very useful.
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by JohnP » Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:01 pm
Looks like a good system. I have been thinking about doing something similar with my dubbing packages. I have a ton already and apparently I have an insatiable appetite for more.
I am also a hookaholic, but my system for those is at least manageable. Thanks for sharing.
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by fflutterffly » Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:04 pm
Damn!!
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by hankaye » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:41 pm
Dwclapp, Howdy;
Way to OCD for me ... I'm much closer tjd's method.
Excellent idea though, maybe some day .....
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by gingerdun » Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:39 pm
I like this method a lot. See everything at a glance.
When Misa gave a tying demo at the museum in Livingston Manor over Memorial Day, her hook organization method caught my eye.
