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Location: Minneapolis, MN | This will be only my 2nd full year of musky fishing but I’m starting to get interested in building bucktails, I don’t have the artistic skills to make and paint wood lures, but first I have a few I want to repair by replacing the wire in them. I’m wondering what people use for forming the loops and wraps at the end of the wire? Is there some way to do it other than buying a wire forming device? I live in an apartment so no garage with a vice either. | |
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| http://www.michaels.com/Wire-Looping-Pliers/bd0931,default,pd.html?...
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http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/the-bead-smith-3mm-and-5mm-bail...
The one from Michaels has different sizes for the loop. Takes some practice to get it down, but is workable and can be portable. Buy the shafts with pre-formed loops on 1 end. | |
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Location: Poynette WI. | I pounded a nail in my bench and cut the top off, I've bent 100's if not more wire with this nail and all my loops turn out pretty darn good, also my wraps are nice and tight as well. I also put a screw right next to the nail, leaving enough space to slide my wire down between the two and and bend the wire around the nail making the desired size tear drop shap loop, after i have my loop in place, before i begin wrapping the wire around the wire shaft, i bend the wire loop back against the screw which offsets the loop. It was a free wire forming tool for me. you can also check out some youtube videos for other ways to bend wire, one guy uses an allen wrench in a vise even. One other trick for cutting the tag end or the excess portion of the wire right next to the wraps without any sharp edges is to bend it in a "L" shape, snap the vice grips on the the extra portion of wire and turn it back into the wraps until it snaps off, most off the time it will break the extra wire right next to the wraps without any edges. If you want to message me with anyother questions i will be more than happy to help you get started and share what i've learned over the past couple years. | |
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Wire forming