Spoon Fishing Lure Die

Pyramid Spoon Die

This is a 2 piece die that takes a copper/brass blank and reforms it into a spoon. I call this spoon design a pyramid spoon because of the stepped design.

Printing

Print at 100% infill and at least 0.16mm resolution. I used PETG and experienced extremely minimal die deformation. Feel free to scale down if you want a smaller spoon, original size is around 

Using

Spray some WD-40 into the mold and use the cutout template to cut out a piece of copper. Place that copper blank in the die and then place all of that in a vice and squeeze. Youll need a pry tool to get the halves apart. After the first squeeze you should see some excess around the spoon, cut the excess off with tin snips and heat the spoon up until it turns black from oxide to anneal the metal. Place back into the mold and squeeze once more. Pry apart and take spoon out and trim off excess as you see fit. 

Tips

When trimming the excess, a visible shiny outline will appear around the spoon from the pressing process, you can follow that line with a pair of tin snips to get the rough shape. Make sure to anneal the copper/brass before each press. I used 0.02" thick copper sheet and it worked pretty well.