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Post by Dan Christopher on Oct 9, 2003 11:55:48 GMT -5
Here is one I was using last night and thought of sharing. When cutting hollow core pencil lead use dog toenail clipper plyers. It cuts easy, straight, and leaves the hole open. Leave them a little longer than you think you need as you can cut the extra off at the river if need be. If you do it the old fashioned way by bending the lead back and forth it leaves sharp edges on the lead. This can fray your main line or leader while fishing, causing lost fish. You work to hard for fish to loose them because of such a little problem.
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Post by ampersat on Oct 15, 2003 21:53:50 GMT -5
it took me a while but i did it. i took my regular needle nosed pliers and filed out notches on the inside of the cutting faces. i used some tag end leads i had laying around to judge it as i filed into the pliers until i got a cut i was happy with. they don't line up and they're ugly but one pinch, turn 90 degrees and pinch again the a couple of wiggles and i've got a pretty good open core down the center. there's still a little bit of a rough edge to it but i've never lost a lead because it cut the line.
now that i own a drill press i might try to clean up the cutting area a little.
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Post by KingFisher85 on Oct 15, 2003 22:21:12 GMT -5
Dog clippers huh...Have to find me some.. ;D
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Post by bobnjig on Jan 20, 2004 22:00:55 GMT -5
This sounds crazy......but it works
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Post by willierower on Jan 25, 2004 20:27:19 GMT -5
The clippers work really well for cutting holow lead. But, I perfer lead master pliers. Just one tool to loose instead of 2....... ;D
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