Generic metal jig question

[BrianBM]

Has anyone ever bothered to make a jig out of bronze?

 

Tin is pricier than lead, AFAIK. I have no idea how well or badly bronze would take to painting or plating. OTOH stainless steel has always been pricey, and somewhere in my cellar I have at least one 16 oz. Vi-Ke jig that's a solid chunk of stainless, so price isn't inevitably an objection.

 

So, has anyone ever done that?

 

I have a very, very distant memory that Dardevle (or the former owner of that brand) may have dabbled with it a long, long time ago, but I'm not sure.

[Cascade]

2 hours ago, BrianBM said:

Has anyone ever bothered to make a jig out of bronze?

 

Tin is pricier than lead, AFAIK. I have no idea how well or badly bronze would take to painting or plating. OTOH stainless steel has always been pricey, and somewhere in my cellar I have at least one 16 oz. Vi-Ke jig that's a solid chunk of stainless, so price isn't inevitably an objection.

 

So, has anyone ever done that?

 

I have a very, very distant memory that Dardevle (or the former owner of that brand) may have dabbled with it a long, long time ago, but I'm not sure.

Almost 100% sure they were brass, I copied enough of them.

[snag777]

3 hours ago, BrianBM said:

Has anyone ever bothered to make a jig out of bronze?

 

Tin is pricier than lead, AFAIK. I have no idea how well or badly bronze would take to painting or plating. OTOH stainless steel has always been pricey, and somewhere in my cellar I have at least one 16 oz. Vi-Ke jig that's a solid chunk of stainless, so price isn't inevitably an objection.

 

So, has anyone ever done that?

 

I have a very, very distant memory that Dardevle (or the former owner of that brand) may have dabbled with it a long, long time ago, but I'm not sure.

you can make from anything,depend how big or small you need and weight,small and heavy need dense material,big you can use any material,simple powder painting stick to any metal.

[BrianBM]

Thank you.

 

Do you know if anyone's used bronze in a commercially available jig?

[Dan Tinman]

Brass, yes.  Bronze, why would you want to?

[BrianBM]

I don't know. Just curious.

 

When I am ridiculously rich, I will have lanterns in my gardens made of different kinds of brass, bronze, and other copper alloys. They corrode in colorful fashion. I want no two of them to be the same.

[snag777]

17 mins ago, BrianBM said:

I don't know. Just curious.

 

When I am ridiculously rich, I will have lanterns in my gardens made of different kinds of brass, bronze, and other copper alloys. They corrode in colorful fashion. I want no two of them to be the same.

i call rich 100 milion and up.

if you have 10 milion you buy house for 10 milion and you have no money for tax and food,everything get  closed  and you are under brige.

[Bluefishmaster]

I believe aluminum bronze would make a nice metal jig but making it out of bronze would not be ideal. Bronze appears to be harder to work with than brass. Many factors go into making a metal jig and I figure the highest factor is cost to make. 

Bass Pro Shops Strata Spoon's core is stamped from solid brass and chrome plated. We have a few happy SOL members who mentioned it as a cheaper alternative to the Hopkins noeql. 

[pakalolo]

9 hours ago, Cascade said:

Almost 100% sure they were brass, I copied enough of them.

Knew you’d be in on this one! Your lighter brass bucktails have made a monkey out of me more than once 

[PSeggs]

8 hours ago, BrianBM said:

I don't know. Just curious.

 

When I am ridiculously rich, I will have lanterns in my gardens made of different kinds of brass, bronze, and other copper alloys. They corrode in colorful fashion. I want no two of them to be the same.

That sounds pretty cool. 

[Cascade]

2 hours ago, pakalolo said:

Knew you’d be in on this one! Your lighter brass bucktails have made a monkey out of me more than once 

Pak, I think you mean tin or a mix of tin/lead. Brass is cool to work with though, strong, workable and can shine up with little effort.

[pakalolo]

I stand corrected, could have used a bigger profile lighter one yesterday 

[BrianBM]

2 hours ago, PSeggs said:

That sounds pretty cool. 

It's those little stone lamps that I see in illustrations of Japanese and Chinese gardens that I want to imitate, but in brass/bronze/miscellaneous copper alloys. I like the multiple shades of blues, greens, violet, etc. that they develop as the corrode.

 

My wife is the part of the family charged with buying lottery or powerball tickets, or other whatnots. I keep telling her to stop wasting money on losing tickets, go buy a winner for a change. She's stubborn and keeps losing.

 

Ah, wimmens.

[BrianBM]

"Bronze" once meant a specific alloy, copper and tin. These days any copper alloy might get marketed as bronze. Some of Shimano's gears are aluminum bronze. I think they're in a few high-end reels. Stainless gears on stainless can be noisy, TimS once mentioned that he didn't like Newells for the howl their gears made - me, I liked it fine. My Newells are still in use, such of them as I haven't given away. Ship propellors were made, in the recent past, of silicon bronze. I don't think the material's in use any more ..... small boat props are all stainless or aluminum, large ships I don't know about.

 

@scoobydoo , speak to us, please, on the tradeoffs of gear materials. Zinc is cheap. "Bronze" works in beautifully against stainless and is probably as good as anything if it's quality material, which you don't know until it fails. Stainless on stainless, best of all IMHO, but stainless steel comes in an endless range of quality (or lack of it.) Did I get that right?

[PSeggs]

As far as jigs, bismuth is a bit cheaper than tin. But needs to be alloyed with tin or its very brittle.  

Pours really nice.  But I had cast jig shatter hitting a railroad bridge on a cast.  

 

I've been acquiring lead free pewter on the cheap for recycling into lures.  I think it's 90%tin then alloyed with other metals.