RR Ties n’ Such – Newsletter March 2023
The Francis H. Leggett was an American-flagged steam-powered schooner built in 1903 by Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia, as a timber-hauling ship serving Andrew Benoni Hammond’s timber operations on the United States West Coast. She served in this capacity for 11 years before she sank off the Columbia...
Read moreFEBRUARY 2023 NEWSLETTER “FLYTYER OF THE MONTH”
Well folks, this is a new feature of the Benchbuddys website that I am really jazzed about. This inaugural edition comes to y’all courtesy of Kevin Erickson, a fellow Oregonian who resides in Beaverton. I encountered Kevin quite innocently a few years back by responding to an ad that...
Read moreBARN FINDS – NEWSLETTER – January 2023
No, I’m not talking about 1960s muscle cars, rare oil paintings by Dutch Masters or some cultural treasures that were buried in caves during WWII. What I’m talking about actually is wood. You know, boards, slabs, rough-sawn timbers, and burls. Stuff that has been gathering dust, having birds and...
Read moreNewsletter – Questionaire
Hello All,I am asking folks for input, based on your fly tying expertise and experience, in an effort to improve/refine the various designs I have for bench-top tool caddies as found on my website www.Benchbuddys.com My basic assumption is that a tool caddy is important to the craft of...
Read moreRooftop Rack – Instruction
While I generally subscribe to the adage that good roads lead to bad fishing there are places fished by some folks that allow for frequent moves, by road, along a waterway. Kodiak Island, where I spent seven wonderful years, is one such place. To save the time and trouble...
Read moreCORONA NEWSLETTER – June 2021
Everybody knew it had to happen, everybody. Even the mostly benign world of fly fishing would at some point bow before the invader, the dreaded, the spiteful Corona Virus. Well you know what we do when life gives us lemons right? We counterattack with lemonade. So, what do we...
Read moreBENCH BUDDYS QUESTIONNAIRE – May/June 2021
Fellow tyers, Now that you have had an opportunity to see and hopefully purchase some fly tying accessories from Bench Buddys I would like your input on the products as a way to help me tweak the design and utility of each and every one of them. Please take a...
Read moreThe Rooftop Rod Rack – April 2021 Newsletter
To those of you that have thoroughly explored my website you probably noticed the rooftop rod rack on the Miscellaneous page. I came up with this a few years ago after seeing some similar apparatuses online. This version is simpler and therefore easier to fashion. While I generally subscribe to...
Read moreRR Ties n’ Such – Newsletter March 2021
The Francis H. Leggett was an American-flagged steam-powered schooner built in 1903 by Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia, as a timber-hauling ship serving Andrew Benoni Hammond’s timber operations on the United States West Coast. She served in this capacity for 11 years before she sank off the Columbia...
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