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Location: Duluth, MN - Superior, WI | How do you bend the new straight tallywacker tails? I’m looking at making prop baits. I have the tails. I just don’t know how you bend them!!!
-Corey
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Location: nationwide | You can use a wood dowel in a vise and bend your blade around it. I have used this for bending both stainless and brass tails. I have also just bent the blades by hand with pliers. If you are bending alot of blades you can get a tool made to bend all the blades at a consistent radius and angle. This is the fastest way if you have a large quantity to do.
Below is a lure I made with brass blades.
Corey Meyer
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Location: Duluth, MN - Superior, WI | Sweet looking bait! Where would you get the tool and how much is it.
Thanks
-Corey
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Location: nationwide | The only tool for this I have ever seen was hand made. Basically it looks like a real small three hole paper punch with a slot in the rod to put the blade, then grab the handle and the blade is bent/rolled as the handle rotates. I have no idea what a tool shop would charge to make it but I do not think it would be too bad. All of my blades I bend by hand.
Thanks for the compliment on the lure. That is one of my old bullwinkle lures and about 15 years old. I still make them but they look alot better now.
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Location: Duluth, MN - Superior, WI | Thanks for the info. I bet that thing throws the water on a nice slow retrieve. Where do you get your brass tails?
-Corey
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Location: nationwide | Most I cut out by hand from a pattern
Corey |
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