{"id":56,"date":"2025-07-19T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:15:43","slug":"torpedo-sinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/19\/torpedo-sinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Torpedo Sinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After returning to fishing I was a little surprised at the prices gear sells for these days. I remember when 1oz torpedo sinkers were sold 10 for a dollar! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With some of the sinkers I also noticed they were not even the 1oz I was paying for. They often weighed in at only 0.75-0.85oz! I decided there must be a better solution and set about making my own casting molds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This casting mold is one that still sees quite a bit of use and I have another with different sized sinkers as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was quite impressed with how closely the calculated weight in the 3D model matched up to the finished product:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After returning to fishing I was a little surprised at the prices gear sells for these days. I remember when 1oz torpedo sinkers were sold 10 for a dollar! With some of the sinkers I also noticed they were not even the 1oz I was paying for. They often weighed in at only 0.75-0.85oz! I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10,3,14,26,27,9,13,24,25],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sinkers","tag-fish","tag-fishing","tag-freshwater-fishing","tag-lead-sinker","tag-lead-weight","tag-lunkerresearch","tag-saltwater-fishing","tag-torpedo-sinker","tag-torpedo-sinkers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}