Take a piece of stainless steel wire of about 7 to 10 cm. If neccessary stretch it between your thumb and forefinger and bend it to the opposite side.

The steel wire will heat a bit and is easy to bend. Take the wire in a pair of roundnosed pliers, at approximately 2 - 2,5 cm from the end. Take the wire in your left hand, so that the longest end goes through your hand. Turn the pliers away from you and while you hold the wire firmly, turn the wire until the pliers bounce. Now use your left thumb as a counterweight and push a little harder in order to get a nice indentation in the semi-circular shape. Then you turn the wire 180° round the axis and repeat this.

This will get you (after practising a few times) a nice round eye.





Slide a treble of the desired size in the eye.











Then you slide the body with the desired weighting over the ends of the eye, just like you can see in the picture.









You bend the short end, in order to secure the body. Cut the remainder of the bent wire. Don't let it stick out too far. File the point of the wire end. In order to prevent any damage to your lines and to the hooked fish.









Slide two beads of the desired size onto the wire-shaft. Preferably use solid brass beads.











Take a clevise and slide it with one eye on the shaft. Add a spinnerblade of the desired type and size. In this case we took a Colorado blade. Slide the other eye of the clevise on the wire shaft. Of course beware to add the spinnerblade the right way, with the curved surface facing outwards.











Then slide two beads of the same size we used earlier on the wire-shaft. Preferably use hollow brass beads here.











Take the eye of the spinner between thumb and forefinger and take the end of the wire-shaft at approximately 1 cm of the end in a pair of roundnosed pliers.









Now you bend another eye in the same way as described before. Make sure that the eye is in one line with the first eye. In order to make sure that the hook is hanging correctly behind the spinner. Remember to leave just enough room for the spinner to do the job correctly.




After that you place the eye in a vice and let the small piece of wire point up. With the help of a pair of combination-pliers you can wrap the small piece of wire around the wire-shaft.

Sometimes it can be necessary to finish the wrappings with the combination-pliers. To do so, put the pliers on the wrappings and turn, while you squeeze firmly, in the direction of the wrapping. If you wish, you can file away any points that stick out. The wrapping should at least have two wrappings next to eachother.





And the weighted bass-sized spinner is ready.

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