Making the Heddon Torpedo, Making the most valuable vintage fishing lure

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  • The Heddon Magnum Torpedo is one of the most expensive vintage lures out there. They have always been very popular but this one specific model can cost as much as $3500. Ironically is has one of the most homely paint jobs ever! But, I make a copy as true to the original as I can. #heddonlures #Vintagelures #heddontorpedo www.amazon.com... / engineeredangler www.instagram.... / engineered-angler-9424...

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  • @CaptainVincentRusso
    @CaptainVincentRusso 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wonderful craft night ship I just saw a guy on TH-cam earlier catch Bass in freshwater Ponds with just a block of rectangular wood.

  • @JD.California_monkey_mackerel
    @JD.California_monkey_mackerel ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love you my friend @EngineeredAnglerLures 👍🏼🎣🙏🏽💙

  • @comfortablynumb9342
    @comfortablynumb9342 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The little version of those called the Tiny Torpedo are pretty good, especially in little ponds. I hooked up on the first cast with one in NC and I don't fish for bass much. And I saw a guy catch a nice big one on one of those in Florida.

  • @jesselynn4539
    @jesselynn4539 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would love to see you make a heddon prowler

  • @flexx825
    @flexx825 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Still works till this day, my favorite top water to fish with 👌

  • @TheCopperVillageAngler
    @TheCopperVillageAngler ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice build! Love the classics. I think I have one of these in my Dad’s old tackle box! I will have to go treasure hunting for it if it is worth as much as you showed in the video.

  • @richjageman3976
    @richjageman3976 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My 2 favorite lures as a kid were the Heddon Torpedo and the Heddon Tiny Crazy Crawler, my brother's was the Lucky Number 13.

    • @gordoncouger9648
      @gordoncouger9648 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Add a full-size black Jitterbug and a small chugger you have all the casting and spinning lures I ever used for topwater bass fishing other than flyrod lures.

    • @richjageman3976
      @richjageman3976 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gordoncouger9648 the Jitterbug and Hula Popper are number's 3 and 4 on my all time favorite top water lures.

  • @bobtomlinson8247
    @bobtomlinson8247 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great work Franco

  • @flywrite
    @flywrite ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice! There's something to be said for the classic lures, though yeah, like you my aesthetic taste has progressed in other directions... As a film maker, I'd be interested in seeing a video on how you set up your water shots of your finished lures. That filming must take some time and other viewers may be interested to see how much work that goes into that.

    • @EngineeredAngler
      @EngineeredAngler  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes...the water shots are lots of work, especially doing it alone. Can be costly too, I've dropped two gopro's to the bottom so far.

    • @flywrite
      @flywrite ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EngineeredAngler yikes!

  • @tork62077
    @tork62077 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You did a fantastic job replicating the old school lure!!

  • @supadupa1905
    @supadupa1905 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sir, I came across your channel and it is awesome! SUBSCRIBED!

  • @shadowscion
    @shadowscion 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'd like to see how you'd go about carving a more complicated shape like the Heddon Vamp or River Runt.

  • @pontoontri-hull156
    @pontoontri-hull156 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This may not have been your favorite paint scheme, but it was a very close recreation of the vintage lure.
    I really enjoyed this build. How did you calculate how much weight to not put in the lure?
    Super job Franko & Mrs. Angler!

  • @lukeprince7690
    @lukeprince7690 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you please do a rebel pop-r and a bass oreno, that are sized for saltwater fishing from the surf , piers here on the gulf coast

  • @bokonuko
    @bokonuko ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent video (as usual) and excellent job on the torpedo. Thanks!

  • @daviddura1172
    @daviddura1172 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy thanksgiving
    Nicely done on a classic

  • @JayLee-od8ob
    @JayLee-od8ob ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Guy has everything measured out perfectly, says there's some disco stuff in there 😂. Thanks, great lure and great video.

  • @vonpaulus6647
    @vonpaulus6647 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice work!👍

  • @phillipallen2578
    @phillipallen2578 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice job, have a wonderful holiday season.

  • @TerryPalmer-u3q
    @TerryPalmer-u3q ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you recommend a signing pen for small lures?

  • @joeytaylor8767
    @joeytaylor8767 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Watching from remote Western Australia. This would be a good lure to through off the costal rocks in our area.

  • @Nippelmilch
    @Nippelmilch ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your Vids, never stop what you're doing.❤

  • @mike1261
    @mike1261 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and your wife, Franco! Thoroughly enjoyed the remake of an old school lure.
    When you started putting the hardware on, I was like "Did I miss the part where he installed the ballast?" So I went back to review. I'm guessing the belly hook is enough to keep it upright...
    Your test footage looked a little different today without the boat, but the lake was so calm and beautiful that it made for some awesome shots. Great job!

    • @EngineeredAngler
      @EngineeredAngler  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks...had my wife working as my camera tech.

    • @mike1261
      @mike1261 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EngineeredAngler She did a wonderful job at it! 🙂

  • @FranksDIY
    @FranksDIY ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome love watching you make them

  • @motoformprototyping
    @motoformprototyping ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you

  • @antonepaulino1931
    @antonepaulino1931 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family

  • @benrollinh526
    @benrollinh526 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where can I find the "friction disks" you used on this bait?
    Excellent video as always!

    • @EngineeredAngler
      @EngineeredAngler  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I get most of my lure hardware from lure part online

    • @benrollinh526
      @benrollinh526 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EngineeredAngler
      Thanks Franco
      I know you do mostly hardbait style lures, but I would love to hear your engineering/hydrodynamic perspective on blades.
      For example, the different characteristics of each style, french, indiana, colorado, Olympian, fluted blades, willow ECT...
      Maybe general characteristics of blades like which one flare more/less, push more/less water, higher/ lower frequency sound, speed of revolution, thinner vs thicker blades differences, which blades have more lift ECT...

  • @robsnell424
    @robsnell424 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, you did a great job on this one

  • @petrolheadgokce6273
    @petrolheadgokce6273 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the Endproduct 👍👍 but your measurements hurt my brain 🤣 Greetings from Austria

  • @micaelsoderstrom
    @micaelsoderstrom ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing! Where do you get the old school hook hangers with screws?

  • @stevewaggoner8237
    @stevewaggoner8237 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First lure i ever got by my grandfather 40 yrs ago lol, Happy Thanksgiving

  • @raygissendanner1476
    @raygissendanner1476 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great build happy Thanksgiving

  • @mipa6028
    @mipa6028 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    great video!
    how in the world do you as an engineer use those weird fractions of inches for measurements instead of just millimetres? 🤯🤯🤯

  • @Slarson63
    @Slarson63 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wondering why you didn't seal the maple, before painting

    • @EngineeredAngler
      @EngineeredAngler  ปีที่แล้ว

      It would have probably been a cleaner look but I like to see the texture of yhe grain through the finish. I think it looks a bit more antique...

    • @Slarson63
      @Slarson63 ปีที่แล้ว

      what you'll end up with a water logged piece of wood with no action, I'm sure the old timers used some type of wood sealer @@EngineeredAngler

    • @Slarson63
      @Slarson63 ปีที่แล้ว

      has nothing to do with a cleaner look, it has to do with sealing the wood so water does not penetrate the wood@@EngineeredAngler

  • @davidbailey9587
    @davidbailey9587 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Idea: how about a clear lure with parts in it that move visibly?

  • @shadygraves
    @shadygraves 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This reminds me of one of my most favorite FishTales. When I was 15, in 1986, my best friend Philip (R.I.P.) and I had snuck in an awesome Alabama farm pond. We were fishing along in the old man's little jonboat (with a 2×4 for a paddle) and Philip was absolutely wearing me out with a Silver Shore Minnow colored Tiny Torpedo. I was fishing a very similar, Shad colored Skipping Cisco, but he was catching 5 to my 1. He said he'd "borrowed" that torpedo from our Ag teacher's tackle box at at school (yes, we were little heathens). When we came to the dam of the pond, he threw it up into a catalpa tree and broke it off. I asked if he was going to get it and he said "No". I told him I'd climb that tree to get it, and I did. I proceeded to get my payback. We fished on, catching several more, when we came upon a red-winged blackbird, perched on a blade of Johnson grass in the back of the pond. I told him I was going to hit that bird. When I cast at it, I was perfectly in line, but a few inches high. When I immediately retracted my cast, mid-air, it wrapped around the bird and actually caught it, knocking it into the water. We paddled over to it and he hit it with the 2×4. I said, "Aw, man! I wanted to fight him in the air!" Oh, well. He tossed it into the boat and we fished on. Pretty soon, we came across a 2 liter soda bottle, with braided trot line and a hook on tied to it. I got it out of the water, plucked the breast out of the bird, put it on the jug hook, and tossed it out, hoping to catch a catfish. Again, we fished on. It was no time and that jug went racing across the water. Excitedly, we chased it down. When we caught up to it, we pulled it in to find about a 12lb softshell turtle had eaten it! A huge softshell turtle, on a red-winged blackbird breast, that I had caught, on a Tiny Torpedo, that had been stolen, cast into a tree, discarded, and recovered by a poor, tree-climbing kid, desperate to exact revenge on his fishing buddy; now THAT is a FishTale for the ages!

  • @porkchop817
    @porkchop817 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Franco, been jonesing for a new video. I know you gotta have your own life too, hope you are doing well.

    • @EngineeredAngler
      @EngineeredAngler  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for hanging with me...life is complicated this time of year. Videos coming soon...

  • @brianwilliard1819
    @brianwilliard1819 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Reel a couple feet, pause, 2 hard twitches, and fish caught! Been doing that since i was a kid.

  • @martinreyes257
    @martinreyes257 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    little bit heavy but looks great

  • @renegade2171
    @renegade2171 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a 5 in frog pattern

  • @BerkskinBlackmon
    @BerkskinBlackmon 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice but a lot of work I don't have a work shop I just buy a dilerod cut about 2 or 3 Inc pant add the hardware it works

  • @renegade2171
    @renegade2171 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never heard they were that expensive

  • @kevingriggs640
    @kevingriggs640 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Do some more reproductions that is pretty cool!!!!

  • @benskai2475akurfishing
    @benskai2475akurfishing 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    good evening greetings from Indonesia, thank you senior for your knowledge of making beautiful artificial bait

    • @EngineeredAngler
      @EngineeredAngler  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you too

    • @benskai2475akurfishing
      @benskai2475akurfishing 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@EngineeredAngler thank you again and welcome again, seniors, greetings always healthy and thank you for your excellent knowledge because we can add new knowledge and techniques in making artificial bait

  • @theinvasivespecies1119
    @theinvasivespecies1119 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looks better than the original

  • @nedrobreak5594
    @nedrobreak5594 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @renegade2171
    @renegade2171 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have several original ones

  • @badboymowersofnorman6011
    @badboymowersofnorman6011 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really would use a vise when drilling. Think of it this way. A drill bit goes in easy and smooth into things. But, are you prepared to have to flip it to reverse while in excruciating pain? PAIN! Imagine being hit with a sledge hammer at full force where ever it penitrates into muscle!

    • @EngineeredAngler
      @EngineeredAngler  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it looks pretty sketchy on the video but I have my hand cupped behind the wood, the bit can't reach.

  • @bobjohnson7207
    @bobjohnson7207 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No problem I sell fly's well my fly for $1000 a dozen.

  • @i1bike
    @i1bike ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never caught anything on a plopper. Anyone caught anything on it in a saltwater ?
    Greetings from Europe !

    • @EngineeredAngler
      @EngineeredAngler  ปีที่แล้ว

      I've caught fresh water fish and I have friends who fish for inshore species with them but, I haven't tried.

    • @i1bike
      @i1bike ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EngineeredAngler
      Its easy for you floridians, you can cast a chicken leg there and catch a monster. You all return fish, because big fish is 10 times more worthy alive. Recently, one guy from here, flew to key west for a weekend and caught all predators u have there in 2 days and flew back. Here you would need couple of months or even years to catch all those species haha.

  • @DLac99
    @DLac99 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gundam marker my man

  • @LavalleeLures
    @LavalleeLures ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve sworn by these for top water and it seems like I’m the only one to use one locally.

  • @turdferguson5300
    @turdferguson5300 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Haha A great paint jobs only sells lures it doesn't catch fish. Some of my best wooden lures don't have a lot of paint left on them. I also make lures and some of my best tests occurred with just the sealer before the paint went on. I'll test a new lure on my dock to see if its worth finishing. I made a spitting chugger that worked better unpainted than it did with foil tape, scales, eyes, and the back painted. It seems I catch more fish by letting them use their imagination, too much detail seems to turn them off. A predator doesn't attack a healthy looking victim. All I paint is a silver anus on my baits because when Dad was alive he said I was an asshole for not taking his acquaintances fishing. Being successful in fishing is doing something different than everybody else and keeping your mouth shut. The keeping your mouth shut is where these younger guys fail miserably.

    • @EngineeredAngler
      @EngineeredAngler  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Silver Anus" great rock band name!😃

    • @turdferguson5300
      @turdferguson5300 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@EngineeredAngler Now that is funny ! Have a good Thanksgiving.

  • @bonthor7515
    @bonthor7515 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lol 500-3k for a lure that eventually get stock and lost in the water stupid ridiculous people is.

  • @pastmasters9591
    @pastmasters9591 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic!