The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

if you want to try and get into it just buy a kit that comes with a cheap clamp on vise and all the basic materials you need. if you think its something you'll continue to do then i would look at rotary vises. all vises rotate but the angled jaws of the dyna king barracuda for example keep the hook shank parallel to the base as you turn it. go to the nor-vise website, they have good videos showing this. a good rotary is going to cost a few hundred so if you aren't ready to drop that kind of money on one give the plastic piece of junk orvis sells a try. its about $80.

i'd go with the nor-vise or any dyna king model. they are both excellent vises