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Fly tying
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The shelf

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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59 jars. Against four dry leaves and two wet ones.

What is here

716 rows: 335 containers and 381 closures. 5 mL to 250 mL with a median of 59, and nothing larger than 250 mL at all.

Which is the right scale

Fly tying is the smallest craft in this library by container size, and for once the catalog matches it. 204 containers at 60 mL or under.

And the wrong shape

275 bottles against 59 jars. The archetype says wide mouth to get fingers in, and four of the six leaves are dry materials handled by hand.

By material

165 PET, 84 glass, 62 HDPE, 24 PP. The glass is the part that can hold head cement; the rest is for dry material.

The glass Boston round is the cement bottle

63 of them. Small, inert against a solvent, and it takes a dropper assembly, which is exactly what head cement needs.

The PET single wall jar is the dubbing jar

22 of them, which is a thin set for a collection measured in dozens of colours.

White outnumbers clear

79 white to 71 clear. For a craft sorted entirely by colour that is the wrong way round, and clear is the one that should dominate.

What is missing, first

Anything flat. Hackle capes are skins and they are stored flat or hung. One tube on the whole shelf and no flat storage.

What is missing, second

Compartment boxes. A bead collection is a dozen sizes in tiny quantities, which is a divided tray, and there is not one in this catalog.

Amber is over-represented

61 amber containers, which this craft barely needs. Head cement does not care about light and dubbing is chosen by colour, so amber is here because the catalog is shared rather than because the craft asked.

The 24 polypropylene containers are the overlooked ones

PP tolerates a wider range of chemistry than PET and takes a lidded tub better. For floatant, which is greasy and lives in a pocket, it is the better plastic.

How to shop it

Cement in small glass with a dropper. Dubbing and beads in the smallest clear jars, one size, in quantity. Hackle and thread elsewhere.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The fly tying shelf is 716 rows: 335 containers and 381 closures. 5 mL to 250 mL with a median of 59; 30 containers at 15 mL or under, 100 at 30 or under, 204 at 60 or under, and nothing above 250 mL. 165 PET, 84 glass, 62 HDPE, 24 PP. 275 bottles, 59 jars, 1 tube. 79 white, 71 clear, 61 amber, 42 blue, 24 natural, 19 black. Closures: 260 continuous thread, 43 dropper assemblies, 20 dome lids, 16 flip top, 14 phenolic, 9 liners and sealing discs, 6 specialty, 6 dropper tips and caps, 3 euro droppers.
The archetype behind this shelf is store-small-dry: 15 to 500 mL, wide mouth, PP and PET and glass, cold, solid, chunky, scooped, with "small dry parts, wide mouth to get fingers in, clear so you can see what is inside" as its stated reason. Four of the six leaves are dry sorting crafts it describes well, and the shelf does not follow it: 275 of 335 containers are bottles.
Written from 16 U.S.C. 703(a) and 50 CFR 10.13, and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. This property does not say which species are on the protected list, because that is a lookup against 50 CFR 10.13 rather than something to assert from memory. CITES, the Endangered Species Act and the Lacey Act can each reach exotic tying materials independently and none of them is read here.