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    Ok I'll repost it here so it's easier - basically just an old screwdriver handle that you drive small nails into.

    The directions make it sound more complicated than it is but step by step sometimes helps someone.

    You need to have a piece of your wire ready. it's easier if you have a small piece that will lay on the handle without falling off
    Take a spinner that you're copying that has a small eyelet and find a nail that will fit in the hole or a little bit bigger you need 2 of them
    The Wood handle has to have a flat base so you may need to cut off the rounded end (on this one I did).
    Clamp the handle in a vise or something that will hold it straight up. Take one nail and pound it into the handle, don't cut it off yet.
    Take the piece of spinner wire you prepared and put it up tight to the nail you put in the handle
    Take the second nail and put it next the piece of wire - as the nail has a pointed head you need to move it just a bit further away from the wire so that there will be space in between the nails then drive that one in.

    It will look like this, I'd post a better pic but the wife has the camera in Florida but it's good enough to see
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    Ahhh the picture sure helps! It's kind of like a jig block or like the top of a wire bender just that the wire rotates and not the pins. Very good idea I'll have to try that too! Now I'm excited

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    Somewhere there is a twisting tool that makes 2 bends in the wire for the eyes. This lines up the wires so a perfect loop can be made. I have seen one but can't find it again. Was a small black table top version, my uncle had one some 10 years ago. Anyone know of the one I am talking about? I know it made some really small eyes even with heavier wire for salmon spinners.
    I love taking my kids fishing, now if I could just manage to fish at the same time.

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    Fish is this the tool you're talking about??? Dubro kwik twist I've seen the thing in catalouges but never saw exactly how it works until today

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    No, that's not it, the one my uncle had was mountable on a desk or table. You did one lever to bend the wire around and then you used a second lever to make the bend on the other side. The wires were straight against each other when you were done with it and ready to twist them.
    I love taking my kids fishing, now if I could just manage to fish at the same time.

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    Hagens???

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    Ok Fish is this the one Boggs Tackle maker - Or you can call it Cabela's, Herters they all look alike.

    Boggs Tacklemaker based on the pics the eyelets are pretty small. And it has some links to other places.

    Go to YouTube and search wire formers for lures or search the Boggs and then to the right it usually shows a bunch of other video's and you might find the one you're looking for.

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    It's similar, have looked at one for a while but I don't see the second bending hing on them. It may not be made anymore, this was well over 20 years ago I used the other one.
    I love taking my kids fishing, now if I could just manage to fish at the same time.

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    i use round nose pliars for spinner wire bending.its nice to see more people that build inline spinners. they are one of the easiest lures to build i think

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    Comparative eye sizes between wire formers.

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