I'm not a guy who has so much money I don't know what to do with it. I also learned over the years that proper materials were seldom dirt cheap. I started tying salmon flies before I even understood trout fishing very well and way back then good feathers were expensive. Through out the 1980's and 90's I built a supply of what I thought were expensive rooster capes and some saddles for dry and streamer tying. They were expensive enough that I had 2 different lay away programs running at the same time with the 2 best supply shops in my part of the state. I seem to remember the most costly cape was approaching $100 but it was the finest dry fly cape I'd ever seen in my life.
When I say not easily shocked I'm serious, I think my materials cabinet has a drawer with about 14 jungle cock capes in it and they can get pricey. My salmon flies get real silk not rayon floss and I'm willing to pay top end for vintage embossed tinsels and old Bartleet hooks etc.
I was searching on the auction site early today for vintage fly tying materials just curious as to what might pop up.
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Listed as vintage Hoffman Signature Saddle they are priced at $499.00 each. That is four hundred ninety-nine dollars American :icon_eek:
Am I really a dinosaur? Have I lived too far off the current trends grid? Or does that seem a little high to you? I'm not saying they aren't really thick saddles, I'm not saying there aren't a lot of fibers there, I'm just saying I wouldn't, couldn't pay that much for saddles.
These are for sale by a fly shop (supposedly) and are listed as a Buy It Now item without the OBO category option.
Anyone here own any $500 saddles and if so please let me know what I missed out on all those years :shades:
When I say not easily shocked I'm serious, I think my materials cabinet has a drawer with about 14 jungle cock capes in it and they can get pricey. My salmon flies get real silk not rayon floss and I'm willing to pay top end for vintage embossed tinsels and old Bartleet hooks etc.
I was searching on the auction site early today for vintage fly tying materials just curious as to what might pop up.
These were not typos
Listed as vintage Hoffman Signature Saddle they are priced at $499.00 each. That is four hundred ninety-nine dollars American :icon_eek:
Am I really a dinosaur? Have I lived too far off the current trends grid? Or does that seem a little high to you? I'm not saying they aren't really thick saddles, I'm not saying there aren't a lot of fibers there, I'm just saying I wouldn't, couldn't pay that much for saddles.
These are for sale by a fly shop (supposedly) and are listed as a Buy It Now item without the OBO category option.
Anyone here own any $500 saddles and if so please let me know what I missed out on all those years :shades: