API - Spartan Fly Tying Vise 4-piece The cap is missing its

The cap is missing its internal screw and I think it's been secured by loctite or something similar as it does not unscrew

Includes original bag and brown powder coated tube with label and brass fittings

weighing 5 ounces and will carry a #5 line

The rod has a lovely smooth action a bit slower than most modern graphite rods

and a 12th edition copy of John Taintor Foote's classic work "The Wedding Gift"

API - Spartan Fly Tying Vise 4-piece The cap is missing itsFor sale here is an API (Angling Products Incorporated) "Spartan" fly tying vise. Made in the early 1980's in the USA. The vise is an exact 2 3 replica of the HMH Standard Vise. It was also known as the "mini vise" because of this. API purchased HMH in 1980 and began make vises under their name. The vise is in excellent used condition and in flawless mechanical shape with only minor cosmetic signs of honest use. The vise is quite handsome in a