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[GreatWhiteNorth517]

Right back atcha...Hoser.

Getcha those pix tomoro night. Am traveling for work at the moment. If you're open to advice, I buy my wire from a welding supply place. They have SS wire in several diameters from whippy all the way to bike-spoke/musky lure diameter. I buy it by the pound in 3 ft lengths, cut them into 12 inch pieces and it keeps me busy for a while. Clamp your mold (gently) in a vise and drill it out top and bottom to accomodate bigger wire. You can get machinist's bits the same exact size in thousandths as your wire. I have a cheap bender that worked OK with light wire, on my heavier stuff I use (can I say names here?) a Big Blue Bender from Do-it. I then use a #7 leader ferrule from AFW versus twisting a loop. Also on light wire a 3/16" punch tightened in a vise coupled with a Vise-grip on the tag end of the wire will make as nice of a loop/twist as a tool will.

Hope some of that helped...

[fishincrazy]

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteNorth517

Right back atcha...Hoser.

Getcha those pix tomoro night. Am traveling for work at the moment. If you're open to advice, I buy my wire from a welding supply place. They have SS wire in several diameters from whippy all the way to bike-spoke/musky lure diameter. I buy it by the pound in 3 ft lengths, cut them into 12 inch pieces and it keeps me busy for a while. Clamp your mold (gently) in a vise and drill it out top and bottom to accomodate bigger wire. You can get machinist's bits the same exact size in thousandths as your wire. I have a cheap bender that worked OK with light wire, on my heavier stuff I use (can I say names here?) a Big Blue Bender from Do-it. I then use a #7 leader ferrule from AFW versus twisting a loop. Also on light wire a 3/16" punch tightened in a vise coupled with a Vise-grip on the tag end of the wire will make as nice of a loop/twist as a tool will.

Hope some of that helped...

This is great info thanks for sharing!

FC