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There are indeed manufacturers of tungsten products in the US. I'm familiar with a company in my home town that has its own tungsten mine in Canada, and have invented interesting things such as tungsten tape for wheel balancing weights. Unfortunately, they don't make fishing weights.

Due to it's high melting temp, most tungsten is produced by one of two methods. the first, and most common method for panfish jigheads is the mixing of tungsten powder with epoxy and then molding said mixture. The second, most used for bass and up sized tackle is through sintering. this process mixes tungsten powder with a metal that melts at a more manageable temp, this mixture is then packed into a mold and heated under pressure binding the tungsten to the other metal. This is the reason there is no 100% tungsten fishing tackle. The process and materials is costly and the reason there is not a single tungsten weight or jig, at least in bass sizes, produced in the US. Which brings up another point, there are several companies selling product with a marketing campaign stating that they are a US based company. Their company may be but they import the product from China like everyone else. Don't fall for it.

There are spinnerbaits on the market that mimic schooling bait. Here is one by Booyah Bait Co. If you plan on making some, it will be a big investment, because you need a lot of components. It is cheaper to buy these than to make your own.

No collar on mine. All mine are tied with skirt tabs also. Ive fished my jigs until there's hardly any material left and have never had one fall apart.

I use a sharpie a lot just because of the convenience. In addition to trout dots, they make nice crappie marks. As Seakarp suggested, I have also taken a sheet of plastic and punched holes in it to make quick stencils. Punch holes with just about anything (or lay on scrap wood and drill) and use a razor knife to flush cut the underside if the stencil gets slightly dented in around a hole. I also sometimes use those round dot stickers from walmart found the office/school department to make dots. They are like masking tape. You get 500 stickers for a couple of bucks. I paint one color, let dry/heat set, then put the dot stickers down, paint a second color, peel the stickers off with an Xacto knife and you get a dot of the underneath first color. It's useful for making those dot-within-a-dot brown trout spots. Paint silver, put down dot stickers, paint dark metallic bronze or whatever trout back color you prefer, peel stickers to reveal a silver dot, then use a black sharpie to make a smaller black dot inside the silver dot. I have a hole punch that makes a small star. I can use it to punch small stars out of masking take. I have used the little tape stars to make stars on a lure like the dot method above. I could have done the same by buying star stickers.

Yeah, you probably right, it would be a pointless exercise as I don't do pretty Dave

The problem is pics don’t show action. Let’s be honest it’s a pretty contest lol I still would like to see it if you succeed

Al, not to be an A$$, but I offer that when the sticky was started, a number of experienced members posted recipes. Within a year or so, the discussions and question posts began. Not sure how big a job it is to clean it up but it would be nice. Maybe as a moderator, you can just delete and not have to go into the HTML file and manually delete line by line.

I use the eraser from a wood pencil and make the size I want on the sander I have plenty of different sizes. Then dip and dot. Wayne