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[JBlaze]

Making Starter Stud Corkscrews
Hello fellow TU’ers I have taken much from TU and It is time again to give a little back. I have many uses for these things From making shakee heads, weedless jigs and soft jerk bait hooks to attaching plastic grubs to the rear of crank baits. Once I figured out how to make them. I can make all I need for my personal use in a very short time. They are much stronger than the ones made of copper and much easier to thread into the plastic because of the starter stud. Hope this is of use to some of you.
John

You will first need to make this tool http://www.tackleunderground.com/forum/wire-baits-how/12471-making-consistent-screw-locks-rev-1-0-a.html which was posted by Kelly in the Members Submitted Tutorials section of TU. It is easy and simple to make following his instructions and pictures. You will not need the screw driver part of his tutorial to make the started stud corkscrew.

For making the starter stud corkscrews, you will need these supplies.
.031 tempered stainless steel wire
a small compression pin 1¼ to 1½ long
a plastic cap from a soft drink or bottle of water
a piece of aluminum (same thickness used for making Kelly’s tool will be fine) which will fit inside the plastic cap
A tube of two part epoxy or resin froduct for filling the plastic cap and holding the block of aluminum in place.

I am not very good at explaing things on paper so I hope these pics with notes will explain how to make these.
http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh72/JBlaze1952/Making A Starter Stud Corkscrew/ John

[diemai]

@ JBlaze

Though I might never use such corkscrews for my own fishing over here , I still find your technical solution about that little tool to be very smart and handy:yes: !
Well thought off , John , indeed !

Greetz , Dieter:yay:

[hazmail]

John - like Dieter I too have never been into this, but am into bending wire for other things, this is my kind of tool, I can appreciate how much time you would have put in to refine your design - great work. pete

[mark poulson]

John,
That's a really clever tool, and system.

[JBlaze]

Thanks guys for the compliments but a lot of the credit goes to Kelly. before he posted his tutorial, I used to make the hitchhiker type screw locks by twisting the wire around a drywall screw. I fish a lot of shakey heads so I made his tool, and used it for some time and every the time I used it, I kept trying to figure out how to make this type screwlock with the starter stud which makes it much easier to thread plastics onto it. It was a lot of trial and error but the light bulb finally lit up and this is the end result.
John

[fish_rman2000]

Wow been away for a while and the first post I look at is very well thought out and done. Bill

[kelly]

Jblaze I am impressed with your refining of the tool I made and I have always wanted to make screw locks like that. I am going to put that at the top of my to do list this winter. You posted this at the time I was laid off from my job as a general manger of a trucking company. Immediately diverting all of my time to starting my own company. I missed this beautiful peace of information. Thank you for sharing your twist with all of use. I will be using this my self. Thanks fish for bumping this post.

[JBlaze]

kelly, on 11 November 2009 - 06:22 PM, said:

Jblaze I am impressed with your refining of the tool I made and I have always wanted to make screw locks like that. I am going to put that at the top of my to do list this winter. You posted this at the time I was laid off from my job as a general manger of a trucking company. Immediately diverting all of my time to starting my own company. I missed this beautiful peace of information. Thank you for sharing your twist with all of use. I will be using this my self. Thanks fish for bumping this post.

Kelly, you are welcome. I think this is the beauty of sharing information with others. Sometimes it helps another person to do better work, (such as your idea did for me. before I came across your idea, I was twisting my screw locks around a modified dry wall screw. your idea made things much more efficient and easier for me and was greatly appreciated). Sometimes the sharing of ideas and information fuels the think tank and gets the creative juices flowing and other related ideas evolve from it. As of now, building baits and or tools to make baits with is a hobby for me. I work six days a week and look forward to the time when I can retire and devote a lot of my spare time to this passion. Maybe one day when I have more time and God willing, it will turn into a small business . Again, thank you for posting your tutorial. I have used your tool many, many times and am always grateful for your having shared it with all of us. Good luck with starting your own company I hope you are successful.
John Blazier

[rayhorse]

JBlaze congratulations very nice tool. About the compression pin from where did you get it ?

Thanks in advance

[JBlaze]

rayhorse, on 18 September 2011 - 11:55 PM, said:

JBlaze congratulations very nice tool. About the compression pin from where did you get it ?

Thanks in advance

Hardware dept @ Lowes, Home Depot, or just about any auto parts store should have them. hope this helps. Good luck. John