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Monday, January 17, 2022

Trolling Cowbells - that Glow or are they Glowbells?

 I came across a box with some Large hammered Copper Colorado blades and also some Gold Fluted Willow blades. Big ones like #8s and #9s.They were hiding under my workbench in a box, never unpacked since my move in 2014...

Cowbell Component stash

Took awhile, but I decided to make some more Cowbells. This time I placed a small glow spinner body after each of the large blades on separate crimps and spaced them, to make them more consistently visible. 

Most Cowbells on the market put a few beads under the large blade on the same crimp. In my recent observation/opinion the beads are hidden by the blades rotation while trolling.

Anyways, I spaced and separated them, adding a small glow blade and separated spinner beads as well. 

Here's a few more pictures.




Big blades on cables

BTW, it's hard to get photo's of glowing cowbells! 

For all you crafty cowbell photographers out there... What I ended up doing is hanging them behind a closed door to a inside room/closet. 

After they kind of settled down swinging and hung vertically, I used an LED flashlight (a big one), to heat up the glow beads and blade. I got my phone's camera set up for night pictures, and turned off the light. Still a bit blurry, but practice makes perfect.



Lights Out - Glowbell do your thing!


Closeup of latest glow segment separation

A black light would have also heated up the UV beads on the cable (bead in the gap). Bring one with you if your ice-fishing night-time adventures! You'll be surprised how well the black lights work. Plus you can hang up some black light posters in your shanty and spark them up too! How Glowcool is that?

For more cowbell pictures Check out one of the website cowbell items

P.S. These glowbells are not out on the Square website yet, I'm still deciding which degree of separation I want to market.

Cheers and noise on the line!



 



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