@Tommy I would imagine that its high purity/soft. Good for making buckshot but not rifle bullets. Oh sorry that's right this is about sinkers...
@Tommy I would imagine that its high purity/soft. Good for making buckshot but not rifle bullets. Oh sorry that's right this is about sinkers...
Id like to cast my own Knife jigs
these things cost the earth for 400g piece of long skinny lead
mainly to get a 500g 600g 700g and 800g jigs in my tackle box for targeting puka
jeez hes a smart cookie I like the sound of that Idea
whats the cheepest way to melt lead?
cheers @Gibo
Don't use an alloy pot, cast iron or stainless is best. We lost a lot into the drum fire due to a alloy pot getting a hole from the heat.
Or make a crucible furnace.
Melting metal in a home foundry, backyard metalcasting, metal casting
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@southernman I have been looking into doing my own softbait jig heads, found a mold but struggling to get hooks with the right shank on them. You haven't found a source in your travels?
I ordered them in, with the mold, Mustard hooks, don't remember number, did have sum success with heating and bending a few with gas torch at work, but always a bit leary, hate to loose a big fish cause the hook broke were I heated it.
depends on type of mold, on type of hook, and you have to watch that hook is strong enough, many from states aren't, as they use jigs for bass and pickerel, that don't fight as hard or have jaws like snapper or king's,
find the hook model for your jigs and order in sum, may have to go over seas, but jig molds out now that take a far more common hook.
try do-it jig molds for hook models,
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