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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mac" data-source="post: 71730" data-attributes="member: 842"><p>You can also make eyes this way.....get an old telescoping car antenna and cut the segments apart.  This gives you several sizes of metal tubing....use a countersink tool on a drill press and sharpen the end of each tube being careful not to flare it out.  Now, use these homemade tools for cutting holes.....cut a hole through the soft plastic.....once you have done that, run a small plastic worm or narrow piece of soft plastic of your desired color though the hole and clip off the worm even with the sides of the fluke. Then take a pencil soldering iron and gently and quickly rub it on the fat barrel of the hot iron just enough to seal it in place.  Do this on each side and you have an eye that doesn't weight the fluke and make it nose down in the water.  I do the same for putting eyes on grubs and lizards.  Never had one slip out.</p></blockquote><p></p>