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Mike, I have to disagree here.....If it was Delw, there wouldn't be any on the shelves to pull and the customer would have no worries because they would still be waiting for their molds......and have fun trying to get your money back for the product you haven't received!

I've been using VMC V9650BZ trebles for the past year, and they are an excellent hook. They're not quite as sharp as Gamakatsu or Owner trebles, but they are sharp and strong nonetheless.

Unfortunately you can't trust ANYONE in this industry. I had my plans ripped off and got stabbed in the back by my own son!! Thought he was a better person than that but $$$ and greed will do funny things to people so be careful!

I want to say something to guys just starting out, or who are still struggling to find the "perfect" top coat. Over the years, I have gone through a bunch, from rattle cans to epoxies to urethanes. You can probably find me posting on every top coat thread for the entire time I've been a member here, trying to find the right one for me. If I had found Solarez when I first started, I would have saved myself a load of time and money. Solarez is very user friendly. In coating your baits, remember, incandescent lights and regular fluorescent lights don't put out enough UV to initiate the curing in Solarez, so do your coating indoors, and then either put the lures in a UV light or take them outside and let them cure. The smell and fumes are minimal. I work in my garage, with the big door open, and don't use a fan while I coating. I have a hanging area on my work bench, with three layers of paper towels beneath it to collect any drips, where I hang my dipped and brushed lures before I cure them in the UV light. The drips on the paper towels are still soft and gooey the next day, so the interior lighting doesn't have enough UV to make it set. That gives me plenty of time to make sure the lure has stopped dripping, which it does, and to clean up any excess that's built up on the bottom hook hanger, or bottom edge of my swim bait sections. You can clean your brushes, tools, and hands with acetone when you're done. I use a nail light box turned with the mouth facing up. I cover the light box when it's on with a paper towel to protect me from the UV light, and wear UV protected sun glasses when I'm loading and turning the lures if the light is on. This may be overkill, but I have had protein growths in both eyes from working in the sun with no UV protection, so I'm careful. I haven't made any lures for toothy critters for a long time, so I don't know how Solarez holds up for them, but, so far, it's held up to largemouth and big stripers with no problems. I hope this helps you decide to try it, and, no, I am not sponsored by Solarez.