KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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tended for splitting bones or wood. 

 The knife can be cut from a 

 piece of tempered steel with cold 

 chisel and file and after riveting 

 on the handle, the knife can be 



trial was with aluminum paint, 

 which wore off very quickly. Then 

 we tried silver leaf with sizing 

 and aluminum color in size, with 

 almost similar results. 





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ground and finished as desired 

 without any additional tempering, 

 as it is not necessary to draw the 

 temper to cut the knife to shape. 

 A grindstone, with water, should 

 be used to finish the blade to 

 avoid drawing the original tem- 

 per. 



BRIGHTENING THE 

 PHANTOM 



BY H. E. NEUMANN 

 About five miles above our city 

 the Rock River is rather shallow 

 with a gravelly bottom. It is 

 well stocked at this point with 

 small-mouth black bass, but the 

 carp have also found their way 

 here and in consequence the water 

 is not as clear as it was in for- 

 mer years. This fact necessitates 

 the use of a bright bait when 

 casting. 



One of the most successful 

 baits in use here is a Phantom 

 Minnow, but the anglers soon 

 found that the color on the Phan- 

 tom did not last very long and 

 the problem has been to find a 

 way of refinishing them. Our first 



Finally I hit upon the idea of 

 varnishing the minnow with a 

 good spar varnish and after about 

 half an hour, when the varnish 

 had become tacky, covering it 

 with a piece of tinfoil cut to size. 

 This is brighter than the original 

 minnow and does not come off. 

 It also adds a slight weight, 

 which is a desirable feature with 

 this bait and, best of all, it gets 

 the bass. 



INDEXING KINKS 



BY F. C. HAJEK 

 Ever since I subscribed to 

 OUTER'S BOOK I have been inter- 

 ested in the Kinks it contains each 



