Finding Wire for the Throughwires
Making and fitting a throughwire to a homemade lure
is a fairly simple task, certainly one of the easier tasks
involved with making your own lures. There are many
different kinds of wire commercially available from
fishing tackle outlets and other sources (such as your
local DIY and hardware store) which are suitable for
making throughwires for lures. One of the themes of
this lure making project so far has been not to buy anything for the lures unless absolutely necessary - making the throughwires for the lures will follow the same
idea.
Sanding and Filling the Lure Blanks
The next step after the lures edges have been rounded is to use some wood filler to fill any holes, dents
or rough edges on the lure blank prior to sanding. I
left the filler to dry overnight before sanding the lure
blanks starting with a coarse grit sandpaper then a
medium grit and finishing with a fine grit sanding
pad. Some areas on the lure blanks needed a second
round of filler as the first layer of filler shrunk down
slightly as it dried out.
At this stage the lure blanks are actually starting to
look like some lures. The next step will be to make
some through wires and fix them to the lures.
So where can we find wire that is suitable for making
lure throughwires just lying around the house? One
place to look for some wire is to locate any old and
broken electrical appliance that may be in the house
and cut the chord off it. If the copper wires inside the
chord are of the single core type rather than the multi
strand type then it should be fine for your lures. I
found a short length of electrical cable rolled up on a
shelf in the garage which had more than enough wire
in it to make the throughwires for my four lures. The
picture above shows one of the pieces of electrical
cable that I used to obtain some wire for my throughwires. I removed the plastic coating from around the
copper wire by cutting along it's length using a sharp
utility knife.