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Building the bench

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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A tyer owns more containers than materials. That is the system to design.

Count the containers before buying any

Dubbing in twenty colours, beads in eight sizes and three finishes, thread in a dozen deniers. The number is forty or more before anything exotic.

Which makes it a set, not a selection

One jar size bought forty times packs into a tray, shares a spare cap and is scanned at a glance. Forty different jars is a drawer you search.

Smallest that holds a working quantity

100 containers at 30 mL or under on this shelf. A few grams of dubbing in a 250 mL jar is a hunt every time.

Clear, because the craft sorts by colour

71 clear containers against 79 white. For dubbing and bead finish the wall is the first label and the written one confirms it.

Straight sided so the tray fills

Round jars waste the gaps between them. Over forty containers that is several containers of free space in the same drawer.

Lidded and latching for anything that rolls

Beads are the case. A knocked jar of size 3.2 tungsten empties under the bench and the sizes are gone, not just spilled.

Label on the body, in words and numbers

Diameter, colour name, species where it matters. Lids get swapped and a colour code fails for around one in twelve men, so neither is the label.

Copy the provenance across

Hackle arrives in a labelled envelope that gets thrown away. Species, supplier and date onto the container is the step that keeps the legal question answerable.

Keep the cement separate from the dry

A solvent bottle in a tray of dubbing is one knock from ruining twenty colours. Different tray, different part of the bench.

Buy spares with the set

Caps and droppers are the consumables. In a forty-container system they are what gets lost and cracked, and spares are only possible because the set is one size.

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.