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Modified yet a 3rd weedless mold. 1st mold was an eyelet style, 2nd was a swivel barrel and 3rd is like iFish's with a stainless steel wire that I bent afterwards. Still waiting for a manufacturer to take care of us. Until then enjoy.
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WOW.good post great mold mod.May have to start our own mold builder for crappie fishermen.
Thanks. Here are my other two variations with the 1st pic being the one I like the most.
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WOW.Really like those.good post.
And here is the one today.
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I have been after bait junkies to make us one. I want a wire keeper barb too.
Very nice Nip!!
Me too JW. Limited to Do-its mold though. It's a barbed mold.
I asked him about molds for these - 1/32 chub head with swivel for either 6 or 4 sickle
1/16th chub head with swivel for either 4 or 2 sickle
1/32nd football for 6 or 4 sickle
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Very nice fatman. I'm here in the south and I fish 1/8 oz and up unless I'm shooting docks with a 1/16. Size 1 hook and up.
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This is a horse head mold I modified back in December. The weed guard pin is a 1/16' dia hook shaft. The spinner holder is the Do-it #0 Stainless steel sinker eye and the hook shaft cavity was widened to accept the Do-it wire keeper if one so chose. This modification allows one to power paint head without weed guard in or a swivel that needs to be protected. I can also leave the wire keeper off and tie a body on this jig. After tying I then can add the weed guard in with the same cement I use on the thread wraps. This modification could be made to almost any mold I believe.
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These horse heads were made with the above modified mold above.
Great mod and like the way you can just glue the weed guard in after - but do you find any off balancing of the head while fishing them??
Fatman I do not see any balancing problems when I fish these. However I retrieve at a very low speed. I retrieve at one handle revolution every 4 seconds and my Diawa SS700 reel has a retrieve ratio of 5:1 I determine my depth of retrieve by which weight jig I fish. I fish mostly 1/16 and 1/8 oz jigs but sometimes 1/32 oz or 3/16 oz if i am fishing down in the 20" depth range. I fish all of them on 4# Fireline Solar. I also remove all but 6 weed guard bristles with finger nail clippers before I put them in the water. By the way the 4# Original Fireline Solar seems to be getting harder to buy. I have been using it for almost 30 years I believe.Quote:
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Great post thanks.WOW.
Thanks buddy!!! Great info!!
Well I finally did it. Back to original design. This time it took no cutting of the mold. How did I do it???
1st I insert the stainless steel eye into mold. I close mold carefully not to move eye from the place I set it. I then pound on both sides of mold with a rubber mallet. I originally tried this months back with a vice but it didn't cut deep enough grooves into mold. Mallet did.
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This took quite a few poundings but eventually I cut a grove into the mold of the eye.
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And finished product. Perfectly cut into mold.
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Have plans of dremeling out the mold so that I can eliminate an o ring and just attach the swivel to the eye if I so choose but that is later.
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Fatman, where do your 1/32nd chub molds come from? They look great! Many thanks for any info.
Just another way to underspin. I use a coil jig, slide a swivel around spring to the top and then put on tail. I can quick change blades but most importantly is I paint the jig without the swivel and don't have to keep it protected from paint.
I have been talking with bait junkies to try to get him to put the under spin in the works. I really think it will be a good seller and used a lot.
I hate to say this but they are not mine - I traded for them. Sorry! but I keep asking ********* when he's going to do some more lead molds!!
I am wanting to get on this, i just have a line of other stuff i got to do first. As soon as someone sends me some components ill get busy.... :)
I have whatever components you need and have even offered to send molds for examples. I have posted numerous modifications done by myself but the problem is everyone has their own opinion on how a mold should be or what style a mold should be. Don't know what more I can do. I'm at a loss and have given up.
Hook of choice, and swivel that you would like. I got teflon pins to model in weed guards. Once the head itself is figured out. Adapting size and hook styles is easy. Got to start somewere tho. :) i agree, cant make one mold suit everyone. Im not against making 2 or 3 styles for different hooks.
I use a 1/8 oz head with 1/0 sickle hook. Swivel would be size 12. 1/8 oz would require FG-12 fiberguard. I also use a 1/16 oz head with size 1 sickle hook. Swivel would still be a size 12. 1/16 oz would require a FG-09 fiberguard. I would love a mold with 10 cavities. 5 on the top side and 5 on the bottom side. The top side would be a barb and the bottom side would be a wire holder. Would like a 1/16 oz mold and a 1/8 oz mold. It could even be 1/32 up to 1/4 oz multi cavity if you so chose. I would prefer the stainless steel eye size 0 in all cavities but if you chose then use a barrel swivel to connect to the head and eliminate the stainless steel eye. You'd have problems with cavities less than 1/16 if you did use the stainless steel eye.:)
Ball head, minnow head, whatever!!!
sell in bulk?
I love it, thanks for post!