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Location: Vilas County, WI | I just inherited a large assortment of musky baits from a relative. This relative thought they'd be nice and sharpen all the hooks before passing them onto me. Well, the hooks were sharpened with a sharpening disc/wheel on a high speed drill. He just momentarily touched the disc to the back side of the point, however he took a lot of material. All the baits have the bronze/brownish red hooks - The disc took the finish right down to bare silver. Are theses hooks ruined? They don't feel as sharp and I'm worried he took too much off.
I use the yellow handled luhr-jensen file to sharpen hooks with a couple soft passes. Obviously this sharpening method is a little more extreme. Any thoughts?
I really hope I don't have to replace hooks on a couple grand worth of baits.
Thanks in advance for your feedback! |
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Location: WI | My only concern would be if it made the hooks a lot narrower than before. The bronze color is more of a corrosion barrier as far as I know. |
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| If you can get them to the amount of "sharpnes" you want, use them. Used a dremmel tool many times so sharpen hooks. |
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| U got the baits for free, so even if u have to buy new hooks who cares your still money ahead.  |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I've never been able to get a hook sharp without removing the bronze colored coating. Need to take some metal off to get the proper needle point. On 7/0 or 8/0 hooks I remove some material on the sides anyway to make hookups (theoretically) a little easier.
I'd only replace them if:
1.) They aren't sharp, or you can't get them sharp with a file
2.) they are sharpened so close to the barb that they are stubby, and look like they would take a lot of force to get them to penetrate easily. |
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