Recommended lamp for my tying desk?

[saflyfish]

Hi guys

Anyone have a good desk lamp for tying they can recommend or where i can get one.
What should be the main things i should look for?

[edd]

I got a nice one a while back from Game, comes with a nice adjustable stand so the light can be above my head, but still close enough to see the fly.

Try find a lamp that can be adjusted, there's nothing worse than having shadows on the fly while tying, just to find out that you screwed something up because you didn't see it while busy as it was in a shadow

[Korrie]

I have a similar lamp to this, mounted against the wall, that I can pull down.
Very handy to have no lamp base or arm of lamp etc on the desk.
It is on a piece of wood, that protrude from the wall, so it can be pulled down vertical

[saflyfish]

korrie,what type of bulb does it take?40w?

[Scythe]

... there's nothing worse than having shadows on the fly while tying, just to find out that you screwed something up because you didn't see it while busy as it was in a shadow

Hahaha, your CDO speaks loudly

How about sharing some of your flies?

[Andre]

I have a 12 volt lamp on an adjustable stem. it uses a 5wt LED " pure white" light downlighter, "focused beam" bulb with zero UV emission. Quite an expensive bulb, but should last forever.

Hahaha, your CDO speaks loudly

How about sharing some of your flies?

oops sorry, attached the wrong quote.

[edd]

Hahaha, your CDO speaks loudly

How about sharing some of your flies?

I take it you meant OCD (Would that also be OCD related for fixing spelling mistakes, lol)

Yea I need to upload some, just don't seem to get around to do it, but will try uploading some tonight

[Scythe]

No, I meant CDO because it's in alphabetical order, the way it SHOULD be...

It's a little OCD humour... 😎

[edd]

No, I meant CDO because it's in alphabetical order, the way it SHOULD be...

It's a little OCD humour... ��

hahahaha, now I get. Can't have those damn alphabetic letters out of order now can we

[GGY]

Hi guys

Anyone have a good desk lamp for tying they can recommend or where i can get one.
What should be the main things i should look for?

Make sure it have WHITE light. Incandescent/fluorescent bulbs are generally not daylight-spectrum white, which can result in flies looking quite different on the water. Nowadays LED lighting would be the way to go.
Outdoor warehouse sells these, which others have used as their tying light. Flexible head and magnetic base + screw clamp. Uses AAA batteries. Advantage is that it is portable too.

http://www.outdoorwarehouse.co.za/al...ill-light.html