Making The Throughwires for the Lures
Fitting the Throughwires to the Homemade
Making a throughwire from copper wire is quite easy Lures
as copper wire is reasonably soft and easy to bend by
hand. The use of a pliers however will make she shaping and bending of the wire much easier. The size and
shape of the throughwire was determined by referring
back to the lure template. The positions of the hook
eyes and line tie are marked onto the template and
lines are drawn onto the template to represent the position of the throughwire within the lure. These lines
create a 'T' shape as shown in the photo below which
gives you the actual size and shape of the throughwire
for the lure.
The wire is then bent into this 'T' shape making sure
that the loops formed in the ends of the throughwire
stick out from the body of the lure enough to allow
the fitting of split rings and hooks later on.
At this stage I'm almost ready to go ahead and fit the
throughwires into the lure bodies. First however we
need to check that each throughwire fits snugly into
each lure body and that the hook eyes and line tie are
sitting in the correct positions. At this point I realised
that I had made my first mistake - the slots that I had
cut into the lure bodies using a tennon saw were not
nearly wide enough to allow the throughwires to slide
into them. To be fair the copper wire that I used to
make the throughwires was probably a little on the
heavy side (too thick) for the job and a thinner wire
would have fitted into the already cut slots neatly. I
had to widen the throughwire slots on each lure using
a padsaw which has a wider blade than the tennon saw
(commonly used for making cutouts in drywall) as
shown below.
After the throughwire slots on each lure were widened
the throughwires themselves were offered into each
lure to check that they were sitting correctly and minor adjustments were made where necessary.