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You'll also need an assortment of screw drivers of various lengths and blades. The standard screw driver with a handle, shank, and blade will be the one mostly used and should be obtained in the smaller sizes. You rarely use big screws when making fishing lures, so smaller screw drivers will be used most of the time. The screws used in making lures are either plain or nickel-plated roundhead brass screws. The sizes mostly used are No. 1 by ? in., No. 2 by ? in., No. 2 by in., and No. 2 by ? in. They should be brass because iron screws rust and weaken the wood, then pull out. An electric soldering iron will be required for some jobs. Soldering irons come in various sizes, but the 90- or 100-watt iron is a good general purpose type (Fig. K). With this, of course, you'll need soft solders which are alloys of lead and tin. They can be obtained in wire, ribbon, or bar form. The wire solder is the most convenient since it has a hollow core like a tube which contains a flux. If you use bar solder you'll have to buy a flux such as rosin or soldering paste. This is used to remove the oxide coating from metals so that the solder will take. Figure K. Electric soldering iron.
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