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They are called 'connecting links'. Jann's has them. https://www.jannsnetcraft.com/335505 If you search for 'fishing connecting links' or 'sinker slider links', you should be able to find more suppliers. Sea Striker, Rosco and Luxon make them You can find them sometimes in saltwater tackle stores with the plastic sliding sleeve attached if you don't mind paying extra for the plastic sleeve you will not use.

So my DIY bug is needing a scratch and I am planning on making a simple CNC router. So obviously mold making must be tried. In theory it should be able to mill aluminum but if I could figure out what material that bait molt are using and how to source it it would probably be easier to machine. Any ideas? my initial guess is some sort of countertop material but that is only a guess. and just for the curious this is the CNC build https://docs.v1e.com/mpcnc/intro/

Yup, boats put away, time to brush off the lure making stuff. I like to experiment with painting and effects because it's fun, but I usually have a few standards when I fish. 1. Perch 2. Firetiger 3.cisco 4. walleye 5. Something wacky and bright, chartreuse with black dots. 6. Jet black Granted, cisco or walleye color patterns can vary a lot.

Lureworks for the paint. https://www.ispikeit.com/category/150/paint I don’t think they sell any airbrushes and would ask their advice on a setup before I purchased one. May be different depending on which product you want to use.

I haven't but I believe Mike Iaconelli did a video where he put a spinnerbait blade on the end of a senko.

I am a pretty unimaganative painter, probably has to do with primarily fishing for pike. It's scarry how fast they can ruin a lure. So I have a standard set of colors ranging from "natural" to loud Perch Blue/Perl Silver/white (Moving towards Silver Foil) Pike Rainbow Trout (sometimes) Walleye Green/Gold/white (sometimes depending on the lure) Flo Purple/Pearl Gold/ Flo Orange (Moving towards Gold Foil) Fire tiger Flo Green/ Flo Yellow/ Flo Orange - Black stripes Tiger Tiger Black/Flow Orange/white - black stripes (Sometimes) Pink Lady Flo Purple/Flo Pink/White - black stripes (Sometimes) I 3d print most of my lure now so anything that is a pattern is painted with a stencil