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Originally Posted by Back Beach

I'm far from a pro, but have the solder thing down pretty good. You can't really attach solder directly to the hook shank, at least I couldn't figure it out. What I do now is wrap two turns of 12 guage copper wire around the shank and tighten it down. Then I heat the wire with a blow torch, but not too hot. Next, I touch the solder to the copper wire and it melts down and forms a bond between the hook shank and copper. Its quite easy, but you have to experiment with how hot to get the copper otherwise the solder liquifies and runs right off the hook.

Exactly. And the hit on a riggie is like nothing else. For some strange reason it just pisses the Bass OFF