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| Anyone ever make there own buck tail blades?
I know nothing and am interested in making my own blades.
What materials can be used? Steel, Brass, Nickel, aluminum? others?
How do you cut and shape?
Not worried right now about painting, just want to find a material I can work with at my house....
Thanks
SK
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Blades that are .018 on up to .040 are blanked or punched out from a die on a punch press. This isn't something you can cut from stock with a pair of tin snips. You have to get the exact cavatation or indentation to the blade to get it to rotate properly. This is not something you can just knock out at home.
Some blades are cut from steel, brass, copper, etc. and then plated or painted. |
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Location: Detroit River | I've never made my own but you could make them from old table spoons. Cut off the handle, grind it smooth & drill a small hole for the clevis. Larry Dahlberg made some clear ones out of resin. He poured the resin into a kitchen spoon with a cut & bent a piece of s.s. wire at the one end to attach to a clevis. There's YouTube video of it or maybe it was one of his lure making DVD's that I have.
Edit: I just checked & the Spinner blades that Larry made from clear resin was on his "Larry's Workshop I" DVD.
Edited by Zib 2/20/2017 5:14 PM
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| People have talked about using jewelers tools to make blades not long ago and I have to imagine it was on this site |
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| Not bucktails blades I guess here is the link I was thinking of http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=11... |
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| Thanks for the links and info, I also found a video of some dude in Europe making them by hand.
I have an Idea for a new shape I want to experiment with so will probably prototype in aluminum first, test and then look into making into steel more. |
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Location: In the slop! | You can get brass shim stock in various sizes, I would think .020 to .031 would work depending on how heavy a blade you want. Tin snips will cut it easily could be formed with a body dolly and hammer or just a ball peen. You won't be going into production using these methods but a good way to prototype. |
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| Thanks Sledge, probably what I'll end up doing. Looks like you can get various metals at home depot and then I'll just experiment with cutting and then pounding/shaping the blade. |
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| Here's a YouTube vid by a guy that makes his own blades: https://youtu.be/BFNTqWW8zss and how a manufacturer (Worth) makes them: https://youtu.be/zjovDNw1GcY |
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