Easy Way To Make Eyescrews

[A-Mac]

I figured I would share my technique.

 

Purchase a pack of hanging hooks from your hardware store (the smaller the diameter the better in my opinion).  

 

Insert the threaded end into a drill gun (One with a lower gear ratio is preferred... for safety  )

 

Take a 3" piece of stainless steel wire (whatever you normally twist), grip in the middle with needle nose pliers and bend the ends to make a "V".  

Grip the tag ends with a pair of vice grips.

Put the loop over the hook and slowly twist the wire (keeping outward tension while it twists).

 

...done.  I strongly suggest getting a pair of Dewalt diagonals (home depot).  The price is a little salty (close to 20 bucks), but the hinge mechanism makes cutting tag ends much much easier on the hands.

 

I can do about 4 eye screws per minute and watch x-files at the same time

 

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!!!

 

[mark poulson]

Nice setup.  I use a bench vise instead of vice grips, but otherwise I do the same thing.

[Nathan]

Sweet!!...Nathan

[quickdraw]

So after you make those screw eyes how do you install and secure them in the lure body? Split halves and epoxy, screw them into a predrilled hole, cast them into resin?

[stretcher66]

I cast mine into lead belly weights.  I made a aluminum mold from a tutorial here on TU.  It works perfect.

[benton B]

I use a allen wrench chucked in my cordless drill, same process.   I epoxy the screw eye in a pre-drilled hole that is slightly larger.

[A-Mac]

I drill a pilot hole into my resin lures.  I choose a bit size slightly smaller than the eye screw diameter.  I screw the "screw" in to make threads.  Remove, squirt some super glue gel down the hole (I use a syring and needle), and thread back in.