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Skin needles, even big ones (3oz +) don't need to be wired through. The very nature of storing in coarse damp salt, the effect of the skin on the plug make making a needle with all the athestics (spelling?) un-nesceary and irrelavent.
I use birch, drilled weighted and with screw eyes for hook retension. A well seated ss screw eye will never pull. You can replace hooks and eyes when needed and at the sft end of the plug I insert a weight of the appropriate size and then seal and round over with a gob of 2 ton epoxy. No rear eye loop, no hang up for the tail skin that can shred the skin and no tail over 3 inches long is nescesary.
It just a vehicle to carry the skin which does the attracting and undue overbuilding painting etc is frankly a waste of time. Also the skin should go as near as possible to the head or within a 1/2 inch of it.
No rear hook is needed. 99% of your hits are at the head. I make single and two hook versions from 1/2 oz to 3oz.
Don't over think a skin needle's construction. A straight piece of dowel with a weight each end and a skin over it will fish just as well.
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