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by TheFifthDay on January 31, 2009
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Hey guys, I've got a question for you.
I am thinking about making some hooks that have a wooden shaft, an aluminum hook, and a leather handle.
Do you think I could sell the wooden ones with the leather handles just as fast as the metal ones with the golf culb handles?
I'll make a "prototype" as soon as I can and I'll post a comparison picture.
Thanks!
Jon Short
http://jonscustomcaging.webs.com
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by Jahon on January 31, 2009
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Personally, I would not mind buying one of that design. Seems pretty good to me. =)
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by Cro on January 31, 2009
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Jon, the best thing to do is build the hook and see if folks like it.
I build over 30 different snake hook designs, and often find that different folks like different kinds of hooks.
I make hooks with graphite shafts, all steel shafts, aluminum shafts, and wooden shafts. They range from collapsable pocket hooks to super heavy duty wooden shafted bushmaster / king cobra hooks.
All of them find different folks with different snakes who will buy them.
Build the hook you are talking about, and post photos if it. Somewhere out there, there is probably a herper who will like it.
Best Regards
John Z
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by FSB on February 2, 2009
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Jon, I tend to prefer the light weight of the golf-club type hooks, but as Cro observed, "diff'rent hooks for diff'rent folks."
I did use a hook with a wooden handle years ago, but eventually the glob of glue that held the hook into the handle degenerated and the hook came out, so you have to find a really secure and foolproof way of fastening the two together that will last for the long haul. Take it from a banjo player... any marriage between wood and metal is going to have problems. Metal and wood expand/contract differently according to temperature and humidity and often move in opposite directions, which is why banjos are so notoriously hard to tune. (The difference between a banjo and a Harley-Davidson? You can tune a Harley...)
One interesting and useful looking tool I haven't seen offered comercially is a type of pinner that has a small plexiglass disc attached to a shaft. It is particulalry useful for pinning small and squirmy snakes that have tiny narrow heads. I saw such a thing being used by researchers on sea snakes.
Keep up the good work... I think you may have a bright future in this line...
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