JOURNAL

6 ENTRIES / 2026

CRAFT · MATERIAL
RECORD · ARCHIVE

No product puffery. What we changed, how many times, and which version got rejected.

09.30CRAFT Death wave: a 0.8-second swing 09.12RECORD Qiandao winter season opens, three new colours 08.24MATERIAL Why brass costs more, and is worth it 07.06FILM Forty minutes below the surface 05.19ARCHIVE Nineteen years in one tool shop 03.02CRAFT Shifting the weight: two feels, three millimetres

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FEATURED / 09.30

Death wave:
a 0.8-second swing

Brass weighs 8.5. Lead weighs 11.3. Build the same sinking lure from the lighter metal and the body has to grow, the swing has to widen — that is physics talking, not design.

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CATEGORY / 4

CRAFT / 2

Craft

Weight, beat frequency, the point of losing control. How a lure actually moves down there.

MATERIAL / 1

Magnetic cast

Brass and lead, biodegradable compounds, and the reasons beyond cost.

RECORD / 1

Record

Catch records, tournament results, first-hand data from the season window.

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