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I have been tying jigs on a hand me down vise for a year now. It is not great at holding  3/0 and larger jig hooks and does not rotate. I would like to upgrade to a rotating model to tie bass jigs from size 1 fine wire to 5/0 heavy wire hooks.   Most of The information I came up with  searching the forum was several years old. Please help out with recommendations in the $100 ballpark.

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Check Amazon for an Anvil Apex rotating vise. Can gt them around $90 some times, up to $120. 

That being said, do you want just a "rotating" vise, or a rotary vise. Two different creatures. True rotary will keep hook level while you turn it, a rotating does not. I get by just fine with the plain rotating.

Anvil Apex clamp has 2 slots in it. One for small hooks, one for large hooks. I had a 7/0 in it with no issues.

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Try this one...............https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/anvil-apex-adjustable-fly-tying-vise  .  

Or this one................https://www.barlowstackle.com/Griffin-Odyssey-Spider-Vise-P2565.aspx .

 

I use the Griffin Odyssey Spider and it is because I normally wire tie larger jigs and I don't need the vise for that. The Griffin is rated up to 4/0 but I have done 5/0 and even some 6/0 heavy wire hooks and it held fine, but if I was going to do mostly 5/0 and larger hooks then I'd go with the Anvil.  I love my Griffin but like I said, if I was doing 5/0 heavy hooks all the time I'd go with the Anvil because it has a heavier hook rating.

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Looks like I'm going with the Odyssey Spider. I need one of you guys to tell my wife  to order one now. She is very excited because she never knows what to get for my birthday at the end of April. Looks like the spider will land at the end of April.

Happy Wife

Happy life

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On 4/5/2018 at 6:48 PM, mark poulson said:

I've used a 15 year old version of this vise for jigs and spinnerbaits with hooks to 5/0, and all it does is work:

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/supreme-rotating-fly-tying-vise

 

This is the one I use, I'm not making for selling just for myself so I don't make as many as most of you.

Rodney

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