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We make a spoon with our own hands

Making spinners with your own hands is best done when the weather outside the window is completely unsuitable for fishing. With the proper patience and the development of skills, you can independently make specimens that will not be inferior in their characteristics to purchased spoons, and often even surpass them.

Making a spinner from a pin

Manufacturing steps:

If you need to load a homemade spoon a little, then just open the pin and string a few small lead beads.

Of course, such a design of a spoon will be deprived of the "game" that is inherent in spoons made of a metal plate. But if the pin is new and shiny, then the small one will not remain indifferent to the wiring of such an interesting, shiny and unusual object in the reservoir.

Teaspoon spoon

You can also make a spoon from a regular homemade spoon. It is important that the spoon is made of a shiny alloy, if there is unnecessary silverware, then this option will be the most advantageous in terms of light reflection, and at a price such a specimen will not be inferior to the most expensive store spinners.

Making such a spinner takes very little time, and from the tools you only need:

  1. nippers;
  2. file;
  3. drill.

The handle of the spoon is separated with nippers, and the cut site is carefully polished with a file. Then two holes with a diameter of 1.5 mm are drilled. The first is at the edge where the handle was. The second is at the opposite end. After drilling, these places are also carefully polished with a file.

The winding rings are held in the holes. A swivel is attached to the first and a fishing line is subsequently tied. To the second - a small tee. Homemade baubles are ready!

Complex construction

A more complex version of the spoon is a blank, that is, the body of a small, artificial fish, made from a sheet of metal. Typically copper alloys or thin stainless steel sheets are used.

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Required tools:

  • Small vice.
  • Pliers.
  • Round nose pliers.
  • Small wire cutters.
  • Chisel.
  • Needle files.
  • Drill, and several twist drills with a diameter of 1.5 - 2.0 mm.
  • Hacksaw for metal.
  • Hammer.

Oscillating baubles

In order to make an oscillating spoon with your own hands, you need to decide on the workpiece. It could be a piece of sheet material, or maybe a copper bar, which must be riveted on the anvil to the thickness of the sheet material.

  1. In the first case, a template of the future spoon is cut out of cardboard, applied to a sheet of metal and outlined with a pencil or marker.
  2. Then the outlined shape is knocked out with a chisel. You can clamp a metal sheet in a vise and cut along the outlined contour with a hacksaw.
  3. The shape, with the help of the file, gives a rounded shape.
  4. This is followed by final finishing with medium grit sandpaper. After completing all the above manipulations, holes are drilled.
  5. A hole with a diameter of 1.5 mm is drilled at one end for attaching the tee hook. On the opposite side, the same operation is performed to attach the fishing line. Also, as stated above, when using a teaspoon, rings are inserted into the holes and a swivel and tee are attached.
  6. After the holes are ready, the metal needs to be slightly bent. If the metal has a small thickness, then this can be done manually. If the metal is of considerable thickness, then the workpiece is bent with a small hammer with the workpiece preliminarily clamped in a vice.

You can make a shape in which to knock out the bulge of the spoon with a hammer with a rounded firing pin.

  • A form is made from a thick wooden block, in which a spoon-shaped notch is cut out with a chisel.
  • A workpiece is placed in this recess and a bend is knocked out with a hammer in the middle of the future spoon.

Spinner

The manufacture of a spinning spoon differs from an oscillating one only in the presence of a rod-axis, around which the spoon of the spoon will rotate like a propeller.

The simplest option can be made from a teaspoon, Having cut off the handle, and having cleaned the place, sawed off with a file, having drilled the workpiece only in the place where the sawed off. A steel wire with a diameter of 0.7 - 0.9 mm is pushed into this hole. A tee is attached to the end of this wire, then a petal is put on the wire and fixed with two lead beads to prevent the petal from moving along the steel axis.

In this case, the petal should move freely around this axis, rotate. Now, when wiring such a spoon in the water column, the petal will rotate and lure predatory fish at a considerable distance, and the shine that will come from the polished metal surface will resemble the shine of fish scales.

Instead of a teaspoon blank, you can make a spinner petal from any sheet material of small thickness. It is only important that this metal can be polished to a shine.

Fishing tackle

Fishing tackle is carried out using a tee hook. The size of the hook is selected in such a way that the length of the hook does not exceed one third of the length of the spoon.

For small spinners up to 6 cm, it is not required to complete the spinner with a second hook. If the bait is larger, then this decision is made based on the expectation of greater benefit from the second hook than harm, since when arranging the bait with two hooks, in addition to increasing the casting efficiency, the likelihood of the bait catching the bottom vegetation and driftwood also increases.

If desired, the spoon can be painted. Just now the need for painting arises only in the absence of the natural shine of the metal, from which the spoon is made, and the impossibility of its restoration with the help of polishing. You can paint in any bright color. In this case, a special waterproof paint must be used.

The cost of ready-made lures

As for the price, you can find very inexpensive spinner options on the market. But, as a rule, they cannot please with their "game" and catchiness. But you can independently make a masterpiece that will delight you with your work for a long time.

It is always more pleasant to use hand-made gear, because you put your soul into every thing with painstaking work. A lure, carefully made with your own hand, must certainly bring a good catch, thereby rewarding you for your efforts.