About James Hartley

Designer of fly cufflinks:

Thank you for looking at my site, I hope you enjoy the beauty of some of the best fly cufflinks available.

After a Christmas ski holiday in the USA when the family decided to buy Dad a pair of nice fly cufflinks but could not find anything of quality in either the best boy’s toys shops (Aspen has some of the best) or on the internet, I decided it was a project needing research and as I was at that time studying design, things started to fall into place, with a lot of hard work and advice from wonderful fly fishing friends and acquaintances.

The finished product had to be first class with the hook being real (hardened steel) so it could withstand the pressures of being worked on in a fly tying vice (gold or silver are far too soft). The cufflinks are made from sterling silver and then ingeniously attached to the hook (not easy joining two metals with completely different characteristics). The hook and cufflink then had to be given a magic coating so the two different metals took the three good layers of 24 carat gold plating.

Finally, I had to find some specialist fly tiers who could tie a fly of exhibition quality and I believe we found the best of the best.

My father and a good number of his friends are now very satisfied with their cufflinks that are proudly worn when they are not traveling to far flung corners of the world pursuing Salmon, Trout, Bonefish and other exotic salt water species.

And me, well if you like my cufflinks then maybe, just maybe I will get to join them and spend some serious time doing the thing I love best Fly Fishing...