I know some of you have dedicated tying desks and rooms but I don’t have that luxury. I’ve been accumulating a mess of materials and it’s starting to get out of hand. Right now everything is piled into a crate or 2 in the garage and when I’m going to tie I just go grab what I want and I set up a folding table in the family room and use that as my station. Got a small box for tools and I use the vise with a desk light.
I don’t have room for a pegboard either. Trying to think of ways to get more organized yet stay space efficient. Was thinking of some stackable crates with maybe some pull out drawers. Hoping you guys could give me some inspiration before I start buying stuff. Right now it’s just a pile, and some stuff is in ziplock bags but most of it is loose and I’m starting to lose track of what I actually have.
Appreciate any help and pics of what you got would be great! Also suggestions on how you arginine your materials and catalog everything would be great!
I do have a nice rolltop desk for tying, but my storage was lacking. My desk doubled as electrical tool storage, personal paperwork storage, other junk that has nowhere to land, man stuff like extra magazines and 9mm and .45 ammo storage…you get the picture. I picked up a 4 drawer metal filing cabinet for a Habitat Restore for $20. Now my tying desk is for tying and rod building. The tools, paperwork, and other junk has found a home.
If you have room, a filing cabinet holds a ton (literally!) of stuff. The drawers are big enough to hold your tying stuff in plastic air tight containers, you can use hanging file folders for synthetics.
Yeah, me too. My little desk just vomited up all of my materials. I need to tie some weighted EP baitfish but cant work up the motivation to fight the clutter.
Looks like you have stackable crates that’s what I was thinking. Only issue is the drawers are so big would love something with a little more variety in size of drawers…
Yeah, not a big fan of my set up at all. It really makes me not want to tie. If it is all organized, it is unaccessible. If it is accessible, it is disorganized! I think the right solution is no drawers and everything hung up on a wall with aligator clips but that would look like hell. There has to be a better solution.
This is the way. I have a 200 sqft room dedicated to tying, pegboard on the walls, all kind of plastic bins and a giant bench…none of it would work without the big labeled ziplocks
I had been using an assortment of rubbermaid bins for each type of material. I still use them for bulk storage but have dialed in what I regular fish to maybe a dozen patterns for reds, snook, tarpon, and bones. Made gallon ziplocks for each pattern and have that in one of the fishpond travel bags. Makes it a lot quicker and neater when cranking out half a dozen of something to fill up the box. Makes tying much more enjoyable when I need to but don’t really want to as set up/clean up is much quicker than sifting through half a dozen different totes.
Where’s @ikankecil.. He’s got a beautiful tying area, and some great storage solutions.
@rovster I was like you initially, had everything in boxes in the garage, then I’d drag everything out and have to tie on either the coffee table or dining room table. I finally finished remodeling the sunroom for my wife, and coincidentally my daughter wanted a new “big girl desk” so I repurposed her old desk and claimed a corner of my wife’s sunroom....
A little project I put together over the weekend. Still not finished. It’s going to have doors that hold tying tools and a drop down door to work off of. I’m going to make a thread once finished
Solid mahogany from trees I slabbed up 4 years ago
30 years of material accumulation things start to add up. I’ve done the pegboard walls, and the little desk. Things always got lost. Now a big desk and labeled totes is how I roll.
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