A small piece of flat steel with a ~2mm hole close to one end would be perfect for wrapping the wire around at the end & less awkward than the pliers. Great video & tool, Thank you
Hi there 👋 this is one of the easiest ones to do 👍 no welding needed 🙂 since I don't have drill press, my accuracy will be little off, so I think I will downscale the diameter of the pins a little, anyway I'll be using max 1.2mm wire 😉
I appreciate this ingenuity very much. This is an attitude and approach and resourcefulness I use in my work. Consequently, I have only one friend. 🙏📿✝️. Looks like a great set up/ shop 😎👏🤛👍
I read through some of the comments looking for someone mentioning adding a drop or two of oil to the tip of your drill bits. Trust me, your bits will cut better and last much much longer. Good video by the way.
I'm frankly surprised you don't have one of these. Love your channel from way back. Had to go back and see your playlist. "Mackerel Feathers from Coffee Package" I found you back when I was looking for ideas for lures from recycled materials.
#"Gimme that tool"... Absolutely fascinating, the precision is absolutely perfect. I'm making my own wooden lures so the wire bending tool would be perfect. Some kind person set my workshop afire last year I lost everything along with all my tools I'd collected over 45 year's so to make something like this would be impossible. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE. Thank you for being so generous, take care my friend 👍😷👍
Instead of those wood/deck screws or the 4mm bolt you can use cheap or worn out/broke drill bits,they're usually high speed steel unless they're very cheap.They're very strong and resist wear a lot more than screws and the usual grade 5 bolts you get at a hardware store and come in all kinds of sizes. When marking the bolt you can use a Sharpie or Paint Pen then scratch your mark on it.You also need to use a center punch,even on a drillpress the bit can "walk" throwing off your hole placement....and do use a oil to drill the holes,doesn't matter what type/kind of oil,it does help the bit to cut better and adds to it's life.
You can save yourself a lot of filing by using steel collars then one of the collars and be adjusted up and down the shaft and held in place with a set screw, then you can remove the set screw in the other collar and replace it with a long bolt for the handle. I know I know....Cost. Anyway, it's worth it. Great job! Fantastic video!
Hi Jergen, "GIMME THAT TOOL" is cool cheap DIY for small wire gauge bender project. The fabrication was time consuming but thereafter it much flawless to bend such wires. I'm in the mid of creating similar design wire bender for slightly heavy gauge with nut made of cobalt steel. Hope this work.
Nicely done. Thank you for the time and effort to make and post this video. About your cutters...I'd hazard a guess you natively speak German so, if that's right, you may like this: Knipex 71 12 200. Baby bolt cutters, made in Germany. Absolutely amazing. I use them for fencing (barbed wire, woven, high-tensile, and for cutting small aircraft cable (1/16, 3/32, and 1/8). Great cutters and I think they're smaller and yet would provide more cutting power than it appeared your set has. FWIW. Thanks again.
Actually not german, but danish - I think it sounds alike if you don't speak any of them. thanks for the advice on the bolt cutter. It looks really nice, and has enden up on my wish list
@@SplishSplashFishing Yeah, that's a hazard of not being in a diverse population (where I am)...it's hard to accurately pinpoint accents. I'm sorry for my confusion. And I wrote the wrong model number for the Knipex, it should have been 71 01 200.
Hi! Great video. I would love to se a video of how you make a metal jig or what we call in Swedish for pilk. Because I'm trying to build my own but it is kinda hard to do and I would like to se how you would do. But only if you have time!
Great video !! A small suggestion... Just before bending at 90° (at 13:00 in your video) you can put a sleeve just above the buckle for even more solidity 😉 Gimme that tool !!
Thanks. You could do that, but I am not sure its needed with this lure. Once the wire is embedded in resin it wont move. However, if using the wire for wooden lures it could be a sound idea.
@@SplishSplashFishing not the way I make traces in wooden lures. Everything gets epoxied in. Takes a bit longer but you could pull a truck out of a ditch with it. Well, a small Japanese truck anyway 😁
Just an idea for you. Instead of using the pliers to wrap the wire inside the mold, use a small diameter pipe with the length needed for torque to wrap your spirals. The wire wont slip out like the pliers allow.
Thanks for posting this, I have to do some wire bending but not for fishing lures. I have a small basement machine shop so this should be a quick and easy build. Thanks again for the idea! :-)
@@AerialPhotogGuy wow - 1/8th wire is truly heavy duty, but I guess that as you have to upscale the bolt as well it will work nicely. Thanks for the comment
Fantastic comments and very well explained.I was looking for a tool like that as I tried to make one with no tools at all. It came out quite well I must say, but with your invention it much easier.Thanks so much .Gimme that tool.
Yeah, you are not the first to ask. I might make a few extra for sale and put them up on my facebook page. So you'd might consider to go ahead and like that. - facebook.com/splishsplashfishing
Hello Jergen. My name is Paulo, I'm from Portugal, and I started doing my lures, I follow your channel and I really like your ideas. This wire bending tool is absolutely fantastic, I would love to have one but unfortunately I don't have the right tools or skills to make it. I wonder if I could manufacture one to sell myself. If yes how much will it cost? Best regards, Paulo Maia
Awesome Video Mate 🤙🤙 I think it will cure some headaches I've been having trying to get my wire forms right so....... GIMME THAT TOOL pretty please 🤣🤙
Instead of glue use low temperature solder so if you need to replace a part of the bender you can just heat it up and take out the bad part and replace it. Just a thought.
Hi, Jergen. This is a wonderfully simple, rugged design. I know, however, that if I try to make one, I'll run into a problem with the tiny bit of side-to-side movement in my drill press. Drilling the pin hole in the narrow edge of the steel nut-where there's no room for error-will be VERY difficult. You're right that using a small-diameter bit to drill a pilot hole helps with this step in the process, but . . . Any ideas? On a somewhat related note, I REALLY hope that you'll create and post videos on designing and making the large saltwater lures (including the poppers) that you plan to take on your trip next year. I fish salt water almost exclusively, so I would be VERY interested in seeing how you built these baits! Best, Chris
Hi Chris. It surely can be difficult drilling that close to the edge, but any other option than using a nut, will propably be a bit more costly and also require a lot more work. If you coull find a piece of metal that has roughlyu the same thickness as the nut is high, and the drill both the 12 mm hole as well as the 3 mm you might be able to make a nicer and more sturdy turner. But it will require more work. About the saltwater lure movies they will surely come. Right now I am mostly practising making poppers :D
Hi Chris. You could try and see if a 2,5 mm pin would suffice for the job. I know the difference isnt much, but it might be just enough. Good luck. Sure I will make a video of my poppers, and maybe also a stickbait I am working on
You could file the hexagonal surface of the nut first which would give you more surface area in the corners to start drilling...sorry if I misunderstood
@@SplishSplashFishing Not sure about metric, but imperial “extra heavy” nuts have a thicker wall than standard nuts, and would give more room for error. For example, a 5/8” imperial bolt has a 15/16” hex head, but an extra heavy nut is 1-1/16”. A cheap automatic center punch (spring loaded) is a very helpful tool also! As I’m having to watch this with no sound, you might have talked about all this and I just couldn’t hear it! Great video though!
@@tomt9543 Thanks for clarifying this. Didn't know there exist extra heavy version. This information might be usefull for many that have access to a more well assorted hardware store
Question: if the two pins on the bolt were of the same diameter, would that affect the bending process? Does the cornering pin have to be smaller than the loop pin? Obviously, I have bolt options that are big enough for those considerations. Thanks!
This is cool, you are very good at putting your thoughts into words. Thank you for sharing your skills knowledge and experience, I will be making this tomorrow. Seems like the twist at the end is a lot of work...have you tried soldering the wire together? I wonder if it would work in this situation. Only a suggestion. You did very well and it isn't my intention to critique only to offer help.
Actually for me, with my poor soldering skills, it would be much more work :D It really doesn't take much time to do the twist. But nice of you to make the suggestion -Its how we learn and become better
@Splish Splash this was just recommended to me by UA-cam, can't understand the words but I understand the tool he made. It makes those wraps perfectly ua-cam.com/video/kNVSzPlD1xc/v-deo.html
@Splish Splash I made this tool yesterday. The problems I had in the process were minimal, I did remake the whole thing once I finished because the pins were not spaced correctly for a proper eyelet. The round didnt come out perfectly round and the point they come together was too far that it looked more like a teardrop. It is perfect now. After some thought I have concluded my suggestion is no good for fishing lures, especially larger ones. A large fish fighting against the line will put significant force against the eyelet so having the wire wrap around itself adds significant strength to the lure. I am using this tool for bending wire as a hobbyist. My needs are entirely different than yours so what will work for me is what I was considering. Apologies for that. But in this process I have learned a bit so for that I am grateful to you. Thank you
Great insightful video (like all your lure making content). This tool would be so useful for the lures I'm making. I will be making one unless I manage to win the Jackpot! Gimme that tool, please ;)
That wire bending tool is absolutely brilliant, thank you for the inspiration.
The smartest person for wire bending I have ever seen.
Very excellent! You have made my search for a dying wire bender complete. Thank you.
The best and most simple one I've seen yet! I will definitely be making this tool
A small piece of flat steel with a ~2mm hole close to one end would be perfect for wrapping the wire around at the end & less awkward than the pliers. Great video & tool, Thank you
Very nicely done!! Excellent instructions, both how to make and how to use! Gimme that tool!
Excellent...I am really needed this tool for made my lures...it is easy to do, you're a good teacher. Good explanation step by step. Thanks for.
Hi there 👋 this is one of the easiest ones to do 👍 no welding needed 🙂 since I don't have drill press, my accuracy will be little off, so I think I will downscale the diameter of the pins a little, anyway I'll be using max 1.2mm wire 😉
Good luck with it
I appreciate this ingenuity very much. This is an attitude and approach and resourcefulness I use in my work. Consequently, I have only one friend. 🙏📿✝️. Looks like a great set up/ shop 😎👏🤛👍
Your videos are very educational and inventive!!! Keep up the great work!!
Gimme that tool
Great Video! thanks for showing how to make it. I am trying out lure fishing, it's OK. I guess I have to get accustom to the techniques.
Awesome instructions. One will think it's complicated but it's so simple. Gimme that tool!!! 😊
I read through some of the comments looking for someone mentioning adding a drop or two of oil to the tip of your drill bits. Trust me, your bits will cut better and last much much longer. Good video by the way.
Thanks. I'm sure you are right and thanks for the tip.
Gimme that tool ! I was thinking of buying a wire bender, this one is all I would need, love the video.
great tools, great video, i really like how you measure out the eyes on the mold, i may have to make one of these, thanks
With this tool I can make wires that fit the mold nearly 100% - And still do it faster than I normally would. Cheers
I'm frankly surprised you don't have one of these. Love your channel from way back. Had to go back and see your playlist. "Mackerel Feathers from Coffee Package"
I found you back when I was looking for ideas for lures from recycled materials.
#"Gimme that tool"... Absolutely fascinating, the precision is absolutely perfect. I'm making my own wooden lures so the wire bending tool would be perfect. Some kind person set my workshop afire last year I lost everything along with all my tools I'd collected over 45 year's so to make something like this would be impossible. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE.
Thank you for being so generous, take care my friend 👍😷👍
What a bummer loosing all your tools - Hope you are getting back on track
Oh my that is terrible.
Gimme that tool ! Thank for share your work. Admiro este empenho em trasmitir o conhecimento ! Saudações desde Portugal
Out to the shop I go. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you
Gimme that tool……..That is the most compact wire bending tool I have seen. Elegant solution……
Instead of those wood/deck screws or the 4mm bolt you can use cheap or worn out/broke drill bits,they're usually high speed steel unless they're very cheap.They're very strong and resist wear a lot more than screws and the usual grade 5 bolts you get at a hardware store and come in all kinds of sizes.
When marking the bolt you can use a Sharpie or Paint Pen then scratch your mark on it.You also need to use a center punch,even on a drillpress the bit can "walk" throwing off your hole placement....and do use a oil to drill the holes,doesn't matter what type/kind of oil,it does help the bit to cut better and adds to it's life.
I was actually thinking that when i found a broken drill the other day, Better steel and the holes would match exactly. Thanks for sharing anyway
Finally another video from you! Thank you for the added value of your videos and your friendly manner :) ... gimme that tool
A well presented video. Gimme that tool
Great job! Good to see you back
Gimme that tool🤩 I always learn new things from your videos👍
Super clever. Dude, I like your style! Nice poppers, by the way.
thanks Jørgen nice vid once again, i am actually keen to see also a popper mold making video 🙂
I am making a lot of preperations for that video, so it is on the way :D
Very nice design ,very simple to build ,great video and all explained nice,very good job
Excellent idea and video. Gimme that tool
You can save yourself a lot of filing by using steel collars then one of the collars and be adjusted up and down the shaft and held in place with a set screw, then you can remove the set screw in the other collar and replace it with a long bolt for the handle. I know I know....Cost. Anyway, it's worth it. Great job! Fantastic video!
Thanks mate. I will look into you suggestions
Hi Jergen, "GIMME THAT TOOL" is cool cheap DIY for small wire gauge bender project. The fabrication was time consuming but thereafter it much flawless to bend such wires. I'm in the mid of creating similar design wire bender for slightly heavy gauge with nut made of cobalt steel. Hope this work.
Fantastic tool, video and great explanation. Gimme that tool
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Love your videos ❤️ keep up the great work 😃
Very nice build! Gimme that tool!
Gimme that tool Thanks for the video! I hope to see many more!!
Great details. Thank you so much for the explanation. Hope to find a way to make one for me one day. 😅
Nicely done "Gimme that tool"
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You have awesome videos. Leaned so much from them.
Tahanks! 🙏🏻
Beautifully explained as always! Gimme that tool!!!
very well done! I wish I would have seen this a year ago! I would have commented "Gimme That Tool" This would be great to have!!!
Nicely done. Thank you for the time and effort to make and post this video. About your cutters...I'd hazard a guess you natively speak German so, if that's right, you may like this: Knipex 71 12 200. Baby bolt cutters, made in Germany. Absolutely amazing. I use them for fencing (barbed wire, woven, high-tensile, and for cutting small aircraft cable (1/16, 3/32, and 1/8). Great cutters and I think they're smaller and yet would provide more cutting power than it appeared your set has. FWIW. Thanks again.
Actually not german, but danish - I think it sounds alike if you don't speak any of them.
thanks for the advice on the bolt cutter. It looks really nice, and has enden up on my wish list
@@SplishSplashFishing Yeah, that's a hazard of not being in a diverse population (where I am)...it's hard to accurately pinpoint accents. I'm sorry for my confusion. And I wrote the wrong model number for the Knipex, it should have been 71 01 200.
Wow... Just what I've been looking for, Gimme that tool!
That is very cool. Thanks for the video and I would love to have one of those.
Follow my facebook page. I make smalle batches to sell from nown and then
Wow that is much better than what I made on my channel...thanks for the tips on how to make it work much better...
I was unable to find back to where I got the idea, but thanks for reminding me. I will leave a link for your channel in my text
Great tool, thanks for sharing, this tool will be helpfull for me. Gimme that tool
Gimme that tool. Amazing as always!
fantastic video, will have a go at making one of these. Gimme that tool!
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Hi!
Great video. I would love to se a video of how you make a metal jig or what we call in Swedish for pilk. Because I'm trying to build my own but it is kinda hard to do and I would like to se how you would do. But only if you have time!
Great video !! A small suggestion... Just before bending at 90° (at 13:00 in your video) you can put a sleeve just above the buckle for even more solidity 😉
Gimme that tool !!
Thanks. You could do that, but I am not sure its needed with this lure. Once the wire is embedded in resin it wont move. However, if using the wire for wooden lures it could be a sound idea.
@@SplishSplashFishing not the way I make traces in wooden lures. Everything gets epoxied in. Takes a bit longer but you could pull a truck out of a ditch with it.
Well, a small Japanese truck anyway 😁
Just brilliant!
”Gimme that tool”
Awesome Video!! I see you have a Ender 3d printer, do you think a version of this could be designed using PLA for use on smaller wire?
amazing very useful thank you for sharing expensive knowledge
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Just an idea for you. Instead of using the pliers to wrap the wire inside the mold, use a small diameter pipe with the length needed for torque to wrap your spirals. The wire wont slip out like the pliers allow.
Thanks - I will test that out
Thanks for posting this, I have to do some wire bending but not for fishing lures.
I have a small basement machine shop so this should be a quick and easy build.
Thanks again for the idea! :-)
Yes - surely it can be used for other applications than fishing lures. Hope i will but usefull
@@SplishSplashFishing
I just made one very similar to this but for 1/8th wire, I had to use a 7/8" bolt and it worked great.
Thanks again!
@@AerialPhotogGuy wow - 1/8th wire is truly heavy duty, but I guess that as you have to upscale the bolt as well it will work nicely. Thanks for the comment
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Fantastic comments and very well explained.I was looking for a tool like that as I tried to make one with no tools at all. It came out quite well I must say, but with your invention it much easier.Thanks so much .Gimme that tool.
I know i am a few months late but would love that tool, as i don't have gear to make my own
Yeah, you are not the first to ask. I might make a few extra for sale and put them up on my facebook page. So you'd might consider to go ahead and like that. - facebook.com/splishsplashfishing
Great tutorial. Gimme that tool.
Hello Jergen. My name is Paulo, I'm from Portugal, and I started doing my lures, I follow your channel and I really like your ideas. This wire bending tool is absolutely fantastic, I would love to have one but unfortunately I don't have the right tools or skills to make it.
I wonder if I could manufacture one to sell myself.
If yes how much will it cost?
Best regards,
Paulo Maia
Gimme that Tool Jørgen, I need to bend some heavy wires!
Brilliant! Just what i need for whirligigs! Also what is the wire? Do you get it from fishing tackle store?
Pat
I use stainless welding wire (TIG) Works quite fine. I think you should look in a hardware store or online
Awesome Video Mate 🤙🤙
I think it will cure some headaches I've been having trying to get my wire forms right so.......
GIMME THAT TOOL pretty please 🤣🤙
Very nice!! Gimme that tool! 😊
Great video!!!!
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Love your Vids - keep on doing them 😁
Greetings 🤙🏻
Will you have any stock soon? I would really like to buy one.
Beautiful tool with common tools. I would have welded the handle to the nut, but the epoxy should be plenty strong.
It has been working well with the epoxy through wires for more than 100 lures now. But welding would be easy if you have a welder :D
Cool build, gimme that tool! Please
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Great tool and video. Thanks. "Gimme that Tool"
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Very clear vid, will build. Thanks
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Instead of glue use low temperature solder so if you need to replace a part of the bender you can just heat it up and take out the bad part and replace it. Just a thought.
Sounds like a good idea. I will try that
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Hi, Jergen. This is a wonderfully simple, rugged design. I know, however, that if I try to make one, I'll run into a problem with the tiny bit of side-to-side movement in my drill press. Drilling the pin hole in the narrow edge of the steel nut-where there's no room for error-will be VERY difficult. You're right that using a small-diameter bit to drill a pilot hole helps with this step in the process, but . . . Any ideas?
On a somewhat related note, I REALLY hope that you'll create and post videos on designing and making the large saltwater lures (including the poppers) that you plan to take on your trip next year. I fish salt water almost exclusively, so I would be VERY interested in seeing how you built these baits! Best, Chris
Hi Chris. It surely can be difficult drilling that close to the edge, but any other option than using a nut, will propably be a bit more costly and also require a lot more work. If you coull find a piece of metal that has roughlyu the same thickness as the nut is high, and the drill both the 12 mm hole as well as the 3 mm you might be able to make a nicer and more sturdy turner. But it will require more work.
About the saltwater lure movies they will surely come. Right now I am mostly practising making poppers :D
Hi Chris. You could try and see if a 2,5 mm pin would suffice for the job. I know the difference isnt much, but it might be just enough. Good luck.
Sure I will make a video of my poppers, and maybe also a stickbait I am working on
You could file the hexagonal surface of the nut first which would give you more surface area in the corners to start drilling...sorry if I misunderstood
@@SplishSplashFishing Not sure about metric, but imperial “extra heavy” nuts have a thicker wall than standard nuts, and would give more room for error. For example, a 5/8” imperial bolt has a 15/16” hex head, but an extra heavy nut is 1-1/16”. A cheap automatic center punch (spring loaded) is a very helpful tool also! As I’m having to watch this with no sound, you might have talked about all this and I just couldn’t hear it! Great video though!
@@tomt9543 Thanks for clarifying this. Didn't know there exist extra heavy version. This information might be usefull for many that have access to a more well assorted hardware store
Great tool and content !! 👍 🇦🇺
Nice, perfekt for big Pikespinner our Muskybaits!
Question: if the two pins on the bolt were of the same diameter, would that affect the bending process? Does the cornering pin have to be smaller than the loop pin? Obviously, I have bolt options that are big enough for those considerations. Thanks!
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Amazing well done would like to make contact as I'm new to lure making and have some questions
You can catch me on facebook if you like: facebook.com/splishsplashfishing - I try to help as many as I have time for
Great Job!!!
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thank you for the video, very nice.
Super pædagogisk video om et fint anvendeligt lille værktøj
This is cool, you are very good at putting your thoughts into words. Thank you for sharing your skills knowledge and experience, I will be making this tomorrow. Seems like the twist at the end is a lot of work...have you tried soldering the wire together? I wonder if it would work in this situation. Only a suggestion. You did very well and it isn't my intention to critique only to offer help.
Actually for me, with my poor soldering skills, it would be much more work :D It really doesn't take much time to do the twist. But nice of you to make the suggestion -Its how we learn and become better
@Splish Splash this was just recommended to me by UA-cam, can't understand the words but I understand the tool he made. It makes those wraps perfectly
ua-cam.com/video/kNVSzPlD1xc/v-deo.html
@Splish Splash I made this tool yesterday. The problems I had in the process were minimal, I did remake the whole thing once I finished because the pins were not spaced correctly for a proper eyelet. The round didnt come out perfectly round and the point they come together was too far that it looked more like a teardrop. It is perfect now. After some thought I have concluded my suggestion is no good for fishing lures, especially larger ones. A large fish fighting against the line will put significant force against the eyelet so having the wire wrap around itself adds significant strength to the lure. I am using this tool for bending wire as a hobbyist. My needs are entirely different than yours so what will work for me is what I was considering. Apologies for that. But in this process I have learned a bit so for that I am grateful to you. Thank you
Awesome tool very good video..gimme that tool
Great idea
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Gimme that tool! great idea!
Great insightful video (like all your lure making content). This tool would be so useful for the lures I'm making. I will be making one unless I manage to win the Jackpot! Gimme that tool, please ;)
Will you please "gimme that tool" Love your vlogs.
Well done sir!!!
Geniale, molto pratico e funzionale. Lo faccio subito!!!
Grazie