diemai Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Hi , folks , Bored at home , fooling around with the computer for hours , .........finally I've managed to put some older pictures from my files and ol' Jimi together , ......do not know , what I exactly did and why , .......but at some stage it was suddenly there ! Hope that it might come in helpful , off course any further questions will be answered ! greetz , diemai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammy01007 Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Great video, I was just talking to an old boss of mine. He was complaining how expensive large spoons have gotten. Maybe I'll try to make a few and see how they turn out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleriver Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 Thank you for sharing Dieter! What kind of wood makes the best molds? And how thick is the material your working with? Looks like brass and copper right ? Vic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diemai Posted February 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) Thanks , folks , .................sadly I had to change the soundtrack , 'cause ol' Jimi Hendrix must not be used on German Youtube , ........there have been lawsuits opened by the local music industry against certain websites forbidding them to publish certain music tunes . As a result this video was not accessible to German viewers , so I had to kick Jimi out to be replaced with a tune offered by YouTube , ...now it should be not banned over here anymore . @ sammy01007 Commercial spoons might have become that expensive , because prices for brass and especially copper have drastically increased on world's markets , .........over here we frequently hear about some hoodlums disassembling copper drainpipes , copper roofing or even electric wiring from railroad tracks to sell these to scrapyards . Scrapyards should be your source of material as well , ........unless you know someone working in a place , where he might get some scrap pieces for free or little money . I'm making most of my spoons out of stainless steel sheet(getting it free at my work) , but this tuff stuff requires industrial grade power tools to be cut to outer shape , ........I only utilize same methods as shown to furnish the cupping (still comes harder compared to brass or copper) . @ littleriver I've used 20mm thick beechwood , ........so I guess , any 1" hardwood board would do , .......maple and oak would surely work . Once I've cracked up such a template , it was deeper cupped and I've bee working on a bigger stainless steel blank , so that wood block received a lot of punishment and finally did not hold up , just split lengthwise in a clean cut . I've glued it together again and reinforced it with some square hardwood pieces , glued and screwed crosswise against the bottom of the mended template , .......no problems occured anymore with that one so far . With brass and copper such won't happen(average sized spoons of SST are also OK in that way) , as the metal is softer and bends easier , ........in fact especially with copper sheet ones has to care to to be carried away and furnish the cupping too deep , causing the spoon to flip over onto it's reverse side and only flutter up-and-down instead of nicely wobbling along . I'd strongly advise to test(with hooks assembled)every spoon prior to polishing , painting , applying decal foil or whatsoever souping-up one intends to do . These "Shoehorn" style spoons are quite "good-natured" in terms of getting them to swimm well , ....also the tradional German "EffZett"-spoon shape , wider symetric spoons with pointed ends or pointed tail ends in general are a bit harder to do . Material thickness can be 1,0 to 2,o millimetres , copper sheet even 2,5mm , .......2,0mm stainless requires a helluva beating to achieve the cupped shape , ......not impossible , but only for the passionate like me , I guess ! Once you have the beating tempate , you can also shape smaller sized spoons in it , you do not neccessarely need a template for each size , .......for all of my different spoons , that I've made through so many years(you may check my gallery on the last album pages) , I've only utilized three of these , ......and another shallower one for 0,5mm SST spinner blades . good luck , Dieter Edited February 10, 2012 by diemai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crankpaint Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 Nice spoon making video shows just what people can do if thay try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 Dieter, You are truly the Metal Meister! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diemai Posted February 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Thanks a lot , fellas , ........these are just some humble attempts to make some good spoon lures , .........but these do work out and they catch ! I've put this video up on German site as well , ..........one pretty much experienced guy there(he built his own CNC router to make hardbait blanks or casting molds) told me , that instead of a wooden beating template one could also use a thicker plate of lead for making the initial cupping of the spoon blank , ........the soft lead would indent under the hits of the plastic hammer . I haven't tried this before , but I imagine , that one would get a more even surface this way , so that not so many fine-shaping with a ball peen hammer on a steelplate or an anvil might be neccessary after that initial cupping ? But on ther other hand there would be the usual health concerns about lead ! greetz , Dieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
