Making a Jig head out of a Biro pen
When you have spent a bit of time making fishing lures, everything starts to look like a fishing lure and biro pen lids have always screamed jig head to me. A couple of weeks ago i went to buy some Savage Gear sand eel jig heads and could not believe the price, so i left them in the shop and decided to break out the pencil case and get on with making my own. It took a couple of pen lids to figure things out, like where to put the hook and eyes and also keeper. I did have a savage gear eel jig head for reference, but as i was using lead free pewter for casting my jig was a little large but about the same weight at 15grams. I used a savage gear sand eel tail in the video because i Haven't made my own yet. The jig head work great, the tail on the hand really needed s some speed to get that tail moving but once on steady fast retrieve it really looked great water. I shall be taking this out next year for pollock or hopefully some bass
Tools and Materials
Biro pen lid
1.5mm -2mm drill for drilling out the hook hole
stanley knife for chopping off the pen lid tails
dremel with sanding or grinding head
4mm drill for eye sockets
wax, edam cheese wax is what i use to fill the body and make the spout
short piece of wire for joining head to pour spout
jig head of you choice this was 5/0
thin stainless wire .8mm for hook keeper
Plastic or cardboard covered with gaffer tape for mold box
glue gun to seal the mold box down to a smooth surface
High temperature RTV silicone Amazon link https://amzn.to/44zzHX0
baby powder and blower for dusting the mold
Lead free pewter from ebay
single ring cooker or kitchen cooker for heating
small metal kitchen ,measuring cup for melting the pewter
tea spoon for scraping off the dross
snips for removing the pour spout
I used a file to clean up the end
wire wool for polishing
4mm 3d eyes from eBay glued on with superglue