Making a livingston Inline Spinner Lure

This fishing lure was inspired by a one paragraph in A.D. Livingston’s book . Luremaking. He describes but doesn’t show soldering a spinner blade onto a leader sleeve. So i thought i would give it a go and after bit of faffing around it worked rather well. The advantage of this over using a clevis is the blade starts turning very easily unlike many of the top brand standard inline spinners. The only real downside is it losses a bit of its rumble or heavy vibration in the water, but this can be fixed by experimenting with bend the blade, pliers work best unless you have spoon bending powers. The soldering can be a bit tricky, and the blades and sleeve work best if they have any coatings removed, a file or sandpaper works well enough. Flux helps wet out metal and allow for a solid bond. I used a kitchen blow lamp, but heavy soldering iron will work well on thin blades. Tools and Materials used No3 french blades small file brass crimp sleeve flux solder blowlamp or soldering iron . spinner wire brass worm weight couple of bead, either brass or plastic jewelry pliers to bend wire link wire cutters small treble or single hook