Flys, how do you hold them while filing?

[Bob Roller]

Holding something small so it can be filed  is what a hand vise is designed for. All I have ever used for over 50 years. Why make everything so darn hard?

Will the hand vise capture the tumbler and the fly as shown? The ability to work with the "fly" in position makes the job SO  much easier
and some people have a problem with very small parts due to eye problems and inexperience.Mostly inexperience and how many people even on this forum have ever actually MADE a lock that required a "fly".
Bob Roller   

[runastav]

Rolf, I assume you have read Fitting the Fly by Fred Stutzenberger (MuzzleBlasts  October 2022)?
Runar

[Stonehouse john]

Just don't bother trying the sticky fly paper, that stuff didn't hold worth a darn...

[Rolf]

Rolf, I assume you have read Fitting the Fly by Fred Stutzenberger (MuzzleBlasts  October 2022)?
Runar

No, Runar I have not seen that article. Do you have a copy?

Best regards
Rolf

[Bob Roller]

I looked at that fly making article and  Rolf has the tools to make it.It is a bit involved but it IS a way to make a fly.
Bob Roller

[2 shots]

  by the wings.... sorry guys i had to