Picked these up tonight - Thought they would look good on the wall. Homemade or mass produced? The silver one has BassTeel, Pat Pend on the sides.

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Virtually useless for anything other than paperweights or throwing at the neighbor kids.

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The silver one is a "Bassteeler" still in production. They can be had for 3 bucks at Red Top. The other is long out of production. The BASSSTEELER is a great rig unfortunately it has cadmium plated hooks which rust up and stain your skin pretty quickly. You can counter that by putting a dime in the brine with them while in storage. The hooks will discolor but not rust up that quickly.

Thanks Flap - good info as usual!

Looks familar. This is the one I make. Old mold and modern hardware. Paul

Paul, what's with the little round doo-hickey on the back hook?

To keep the skin from sliding down the hook and up the wire. Get's to be a pain in the A. Helps the skin remain horizontal. A piece of rubber made with a punch. I didn't think of it. Probably work good on a single hook set up too. Paul

:humpty: single sst. hook.