okay guys look at this jig head.

[snake River]

okay old-timers tell me when this jig head was made. I will give you a little clue it was made be for a lot of you were even born.

[skiptomylu]

I like the little flair it has on the collar for a thread neck.

[Fatman]

I believe the mold it was late 40's early 50's and I want to say it was from an Ament mold (looks like one my Uncle had) - the lipped collar was used for flairing bucktail or other fur.

[snake River]

The jig was tied commercially by a good friend of mine eural Paulson of Paulson cascade these were some of the first jigs that were introduced to one Oregon tied up with marabou I believe it they did start in the 40s they are definitely collectors items as you will not find them anymore on the market they would be a good one to come back with because of the little lip you're able to wrap hair and marabou when I was the ripe old age of 13 we use the little ones with marabou they were really productive the thing of it is that more the feather right or off the better they were so you hit it right on the head fatman bring back the good old days just remember this was before any plastics by the way I did field test the first plastic tubes that were on the market Canyon the feller was in Portland Oregon that started the revolution in the rest is history . when I bought Paulson out a few years back say 20 years ago I got a ton of that old stuff back in World War II he had a bunch of fishhooks or I should say fly hooks that were very interesting in they were imported from all over the place some history about this person Mr. Paulson and his wife were both handicap they had a commercial fly tying business I believe they had eight women tying for them at one time he was the largest distributor in the Northwest a young lady or I should say a lady of the ripe old age of 45 to 50 her name was Audrey joy she is the one that taught me. she was the world's greatest she was just like a holy Bible to me she had so much knowledge to share I lost track of all these people and I would assume that most of them have passed away by now keep a tight line everyone.

["G"]

very interesting Bob

[RetiredRR]

okay old-timers tell me when this jig head was made. I will give you a little clue it was made be for a lot of you were even born.

Bob, anyone you know pouring this jig head?

[RetiredRR]

Just curious, not knowing anything about molds..........can a mold be modified to be able to pour a jig head like the one above?
I'd like to have a hundred of 'em to play with, with maribou. But, I do prefer sickle hooks.

[snake River]

Bob, anyone you know pouring this jig head?

No to my knowledge I don't know of anyone making these jig heads up these jig heads may be even important because they bought them by the thousands so I would imagine that they may have been imported from who knows where.

[snake River]

Just curious, not knowing anything about molds..........can a mold be modified to be able to pour a jig head like the one above?
I'd like to have a hundred of 'em to play with, with maribou. But, I do prefer sickle hooks.

yes you can have your molds modified with that little color on them but I suggest strongly that you have a mold made for you I'm sure Jacob's baits or Lakeside will glad you make you up one if you do decide to do this make a copy of the picture and sent to them the one in the picture is a 1/16 ounce.

[Fatman]

Don't know about Jacobs but right now Lakeside is not going to do any lead molds as they're trying to keep up with the Injection molds.