Marking Out the Slot for the Through Wire
At this stage if I were using screw eyes for the line tie and hook eyes of the lures I would get on with rounding
over the edges of the lure blanks, but since I am using the through wire construction method for these lures I
feel that it will be easier to mark out and cut the slot for the through wire now while the edges are still square.
The first thing I did to mark out for the through wire position was to lay the lure blank on its side and put a
small mark at the nose and at the tail of the lure. These
marks represented the locations on the lure where I wanted the line tie and tail hook eye to be positioned on the
finished lure. I then marked a straight line along the side
of the lure blank joining these two marks. This line represents the position of the through wire within the lure going from nose to tail. I then used an adjustable square as a
marking gauge to mark a centre line down along the belly
of each lure.
Cutting Out the Through Wire Slot
The lure blanks now have two lines marked onto them, a centre line along the belly which is the line which
must be cut to for the through wire slot and a line along the side which represents the depth to which the
through wire slot must be cut. I used Hݙ]Z[