Jigs Per Hour?

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I see guys selling jigs for a dollar each or even less and I'm forced to wonder - how many jigs must they be able to turn out per hour to make it worth selling them? I haven't actually timed myself, but right now I figure I could do around 8 decent jigs in an hour. At that rate I can't see it being worth trying to sell them.

So my question to everyone - how many jigs can you tie per hour?

SuperDave made comment of my little video and it is important to understand I have everything ready. I didn't think this would ever be seen really as it was a test to see if my camera would do well with a video. Anyway here it is and I will also tell you the first thing I do when I have to tie some jigs. I pick what color is the chenille and get it out, see what the tail is and get that color out. I have each color in a ziplock bag and inside that are a few more bags, one has left over V's, one will have the butt end of the feather after I have cut what I wanted. So I get that out and take out one feather for each of how many tails I need. Then I cut the tips and V's and after that is done it tying time, So it depends a lot on how many of that color I need as to how long that takes, but it's not bad really. Then I take a tip and lay it on my leg, then 3 tips and stack them on top of that tip. Then I pinch the tail and tie it in like this.... YouTube

The video is right at 1 mim and 20 seconds and the last 10 seconds are us trying to stop the video, lol!

Can tell you for me and my way the max when I was tying a lot was about 120 jigs a day. I didn't keep going at night! Now I can also tell you there are jigs types and styles that I personally could tie a good many more per day than my 120. Like the original Gray Ghost, the way it's tied, especially the no flash and no tip tail I believe that 120 per day could have gone to something like 180 or more especially one color and not needing to change colors. Changing color just means a little more time taking out and putting up bags of feathers and chenille.

Just for example to show how many ways time can be cut tying. Take the way I put flash on a jig, I cut the flash to length and keep it in a little box so I take one strip and tie it in making sure to have the curve of it curve to the inside and I want it on the side, something like a lateral line. Then I flip the vise over and do that again for the 2nd side. Now some guys just take a longer piece of flash and trap it with their thread in the middle and fold it over to make 2 strips on the tail. That is much faster and also not one strip down each side and not all curving in. Anyway it's all a matter of how you want your jigs to look and also not come apart after just a few fish.

Oh and even with that number, it's not fun any more when selling jigs turns into big issue and still there is no real money in this for selling hand tied jigs! You better just enjoy it and not get into the grinder, it's way different now too! Just not worth it unless your having fun!

Anyway hope that helps!

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