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.
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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.
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I like the little flair it has on the collar for a thread neck.
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.
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.
very interesting Bob
Bob, anyone you know pouring this jig head?Quote:
Originally Posted by 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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by RetiredRR
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by RetiredRR
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.
Okay here's the page from Ament from 40s - 50s with Snakes Jig
[IMG]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...oldCatalog.jpg[/IMG]
and from the 1980 Catalouge
[IMG]http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/c...1980/pg4_5.jpg[/IMG]
That is a 1920 version of a bullet. Rumor has it that the Lone Ranger fished with them and caught Tonto. Later, about the time I was born in the 1940's Fatman they were available to the public to produce. It might have been the original silver bullet.
this is fantastic thank you for sharing the information did you find this information on the Internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatman
thank you ship that is real interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by shipahoy41
a person could make a single pour mold of that head with the blank pressing method, in other words making the jighead out of steel first and then pressing this blank between two blocks of soft aluminum fitted with alignment pins. It is a tedious process and requires a guy or gal be good with their hands, but the work is worth it in the end.
Think it was JSC who sent it to me, and I downloaded the files to my hard drive so I'd have them. It's really good stuff!!! Wish we could get molds that cheap today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I sent Lakeside a little business I don't know if he's upset with me for not but he wanted some people so I give him some but he is a good man I can't say enough about Lakeside molds we just love them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatman
also like Jacobs Rick is another good fellow and we use both for mold makers.
Can't wait till he opens up to jig molds!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2X redear is right on that. custom home made. When I saw your head Bob the first thing I thought of was 1950's Ament. Bet it was more like 1958 or so.I must say that I have saw one before but it was a long time ago. It's terrible to be so old to remember these things when they were still available. That head is what is needed to tie a good looking kiptail thread neck jig the way the it should be with the collar flared the hair will be flared up.It will have more action that way.
Redman