Fly tying kit container and tying station

A fly-tying storage and work station adaptable for use in an upstanding position and in a rearwardly-tipped position, the station comprising:

• an enclosure surrounding and defining an interior space and having a bottom wall, a front wall, a rear wall having a top edge and a bottom edge, and two side walls extending up perpendicularly from the bottom wall, and a top opening into the interior space;
• a protrusion extending perpendicularly out from the rear wall near the rear wall top edge, the protrusion having an outer end;
• a lid pivotally attached to the protrusion near the outer end, the lid having an inner surface and an outer surface, and the lid being pivotal to a closed first position extending across the top opening with the inner surface facing the interior space, pivotal to a second position extending out from the enclosure generally parallel to the rear wall, and pivotal to a third position extending outward from the enclosure generally parallel to the bottom wall;
• a plurality of dividers received in the interior space, some of said dividers being parallel to the rear wall and some of said dividers being parallel to the two side walls, the dividers dividing the interior space into deep elongated compartments having lengths, widths and depths, the lengths of the deep elongated compartments aligned perpendicularly to the bottom wall;
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• a support for use when the station is resting on the bottom wall in an upright position, the support being connected to the rear wall of the enclosure and having a support surface parallel to the bottom wall and contacting the lid outer surface when the lid is in the third position and holding the lid parallel to the bottom wall so that the lid inner surface is horizontal and upward facing for serving as a fly tying work surface;
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• wherein, when the station is tipped rearwardly onto a horizontal surface and the lid is pivoted into the second position, the lid outer surface and the rear wall bottom edge contact the horizontal surface and the lid outer surface and the bottom edge are coplanar on a horizontal plane, the rear wall and the elongated compartments lie at an acute angle to said horizontal planc, so that the elongated compartments slant upwards for viewing through the enclosure top opening, and the lid inner surface faces upwards for serving as a fly tying work surface.