Jighead rant

Why is it when your looking for heads sellers are always like yeah i got them no problem. so i order 1000 heads. i have waited over a week and when i contact him hes like well i have to pour them the will be ready wednesday. Why tell someone you have them and then not....This my last order with them no matter what. Even if they seen this and gave them to me free of charge, i would send them back or throw them in the river..... So now on there stupity part i have to break my promise on my product......


Sorry guys had to get it off my chest.... So now im gonna find a new supplier...I need like 5000 jigheads, already contacted grousefly, any body else out there want the business????:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::ma d::mad:

Try Fishhunter775. I may have misspelled it and added an extra h,but he does large quantities of jigheads and could probably make what you need.Tim's prices are reasonable and he is a member of cc. He also sells on ebay and has a store there.

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Originally Posted by PBUG2009

Why is it when your looking for heads sellers are always like yeah i got them no problem. so i order 1000 heads. i have waited over a week and when i contact him hes like well i have to pour them the will be ready wednesday. Why tell someone you have them and then not....This my last order with them no matter what. Even if they seen this and gave them to me free of charge, i would send them back or throw them in the river..... So now on there stupity part i have to break my promise on my product......


Sorry guys had to get it off my chest.... So now im gonna find a new supplier...I need like 5000 jigheads, already contacted grousefly, any body else out there want the business????:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::ma d::mad:

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Don't sugar coat it!.. tell us how it really is!;)

... maybe you should start pouring your own jigs, then you'd have no one to blame but yourself!

ive thought about pouring my own. but honestly when you can buy them for around .06 each. its pretty cheap. but i think its one thing im gona do.... talked to fishhunter other day he only has a few what i need. guess i will just have to bite my tongue....and wait...

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guess i will just have to bite my tongue....and wait...

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Yeah, I have to bite mine so hard sometimes that blood squirts out of my eyes and flames shoot out of my butt!!!:mad:

try flatfish46 at crazyanglertackle he might be able to help with some and is fast

JJ

already talked to him, only has a few sizes i need. i said heck with it and just ordered 2 molds 5000 hooks and a production lead melter. opened my own little store so why not have the stuff to make my own

now comin from a guy who sold heads till health stoped it let me tell you this time a year it wasnt hard to sell 15000 a week till end of march thats fine and dandy but all it takes is 1 person to place a huge order like over 5 to 10k to mess up geting orders out
they take time to get out i allways tryed to get my orders out in 24 hours but sometimes you just have to get them out when you could

i only ordered a 1000 - 1/32 oz size 6 is all i ordered... and thats was 10 days ago, and he told me he had them on hand

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already talked to him, only has a few sizes i need. i said heck with it and just ordered 2 molds 5000 hooks and a production lead melter. opened my own little store so why not have the stuff to make my own

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Where ya gonna get'cher lead from?

i have about 60- 3oz sinkers over 300- 1oz sinkers.. and 200 -1 1/2 oz sinkers. gonna melt them down. Picked them up for 40.00 at a yard sale this summer, so hopefully that will last awhile.

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i have about 60- 3oz sinkers over 300- 1oz sinkers.. and 200 -1 1/2 oz sinkers. gonna melt them down. Picked them up for 40.00 at a yard sale this summer, so hopefully that will last awhile.

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I hope your weights are of a better quality than mine were!

I had the same idea when I first started out, I have a collection of 6,8, and 10 oz. egg sinkers for deep sea fishing I was going to melt down. When I started melting them, every third one was nothing but a bunch of slag/oxidation/dirt combination!!! I dunno how they get that crud in their molds.. they must have a gate the size of an NFL football!... but it was bad. lots of fluxing and skimming just to get a workable enough mix to pour a 1/16 oz jig!

I would suggest you melt your weights in a pot separate from your production pot and flux and skim the first melt pot well!!!

Now I melt all my "junk" lead (wheel weights, sinkers, and such) in a "Hot Pot 2" flux it and skim it, then pour it into pepsi cans i've cut in half to a depth of 1 1/2-2" deep (you can peel the aluminum can away from the lead pug kinda like peeling and apple with a pocket knife). These make nice clean pugs to put in your production pot!

I'm sure your sinkers are better than mine were... but if they aren't, I hope this helps!

GCD i appreciate it... never thought of them being dirty ill have to melt some down in an old pot first and check them out.. again thanks....

Good luck PBUG.Where are you ordering your hooks from? Some folks on cc sell hooks at great prices,cheaper than Barlow's and other places.

Hey had a fella tell me he was getting his from contractors that replace the lead in X-Ray rooms in hospitals. They have to change it out every so often so check around if you live near any contractors that do that. maybe check with the hospital to see who does theirs.

This guy is not in business of pouring jig heads any longer and that was a few years back, but seems like a good way to get some free or at least he was.

Skip

Man pouring 5000 jigs is gonna take a while . You're not gonna break .06 each for a while if you're gonna buy molds. Good Luck

Fatman

I know thats why i was buying mine...i mainly use 1/16-1/32-1/8 and a few 1/4 ounces. so i stocked up on 2-4-6-8 size hooks. ive never made my own so this will be and experience, i see myself a frequent flyer in the burn unit i believe lol.

I'll be needing about 500 -1000 more jigs about the time your all set up, and $6 hundred w/ free shipping is a wonderful price. Be sure to contact me asap :D

PBUG2009 goodluck with the new undertaking,but if you get in a bind I can put out 8000 per day and try and keep hooks on hand.

thanks fish....i will be using you for sure

Pouring is a way to pass time for me. being retired means you need to keep busy. But you can nearly buy them as cheap if not cheaper than you can pour them. These fellows pouring and selling have up times and down times. I use grousefly for my 1/24 stuff and he has always done me right. It is hard to get good lead.

i am still going to buy. But when im slow i will make my own

got me some jigheads now im happy. paid today their shipping today. thats how it should be...