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Location: Palatine, IL | Hey guys. I am thinking about making my own bucktails to save a little dough. Is there a tool you recommend for making twists and bends in wire? Thanks! |
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Location: Central Wisconsin | pair of needle nose pliers and some trial and error! Super easy, especially if you buy prelooped wire that can be the top of your bucktail and it will look nice. |
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Location: Waconia,MN | Make them needle noise vise grips. Along with a round noise pliers. There's videos on YouTube, you may have too search around. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Nail set in a vice |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Personally I just use two pair of needle nose pliers and my hands. Saves money ... well kinda, keep in mind that you don't really ever save money when making your own, you just have ten times as many tails for the same cost. To many options too little time. At least thats how I feel every year.
You will figure out your own way of doing it. Otherwise you can always fork out the 80 bucks for the "bucktail" machine that they sell at thorne brothers. Again, I think two set of needle nose work just fine for me, but thats me |
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| Yep, a round nose pliers and a needle nose vice grip. The first few you do will look like junk, but with enough practice, they'll come out looking like machine twisted loops. |
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| Look for Luke Ronnestrand on utube. I learned from his video on making bucktails. Thorne Bros. sells a vice grip pliers, welded on a c-clamp, that holds the coiled wire you tie your bucktails with. It works great, for the money. If you are going to use pliers to make your loops, use .051 wire. Anything bigger is real hard to bend. |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Knipex round nose pliers, (well worth it), and a nice pair of needle nose vise grips to go with them, and are you good to go |
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| ^ what he said |
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Location: Detroit River | I started with using the round nose pliers but it got to be too much on my hands because of my carpal tunnel & arthritis. I treated myself to a Hagen's bender with the adapter for the larger wire. It was about $30 cheaper than it is now. The money I saved from building my own bucktails has more than paid for the Hagens bender. |
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Location: Poynette WI. | I use to nails pounded next to each other on my bench for bending and it also allows me to bend the wire back to give it an off set eye. Then I just the wire around with my hands while still on the nail. To break off the extra wire just bend it in an L shape and snap on a pair of needle nose, I use a linesman pliers, turn wire in towards the wraps until it breaks. This gives you a smooth edge on the tag wire. I don't like he having any sharp edges left. I even file the coils I wrap on. |
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Bucktail tools.