I use a wire form machine now days. I used to do it with round nose plyers, but the machine makes it a lot cleaner proccess. I order the parts bulk for the most part, as it is much cheaper when ordering in bulk. When I need just a few of this that or the other thing I will pick it up local as I would rather buy local when I can. I changed my maribou jig tying style to the palmer method and like how they have more "body" than my old way of tying them.
I make way way more than I need for fishing, but I like building them so I probably end up spending way more money on it than if I just went and bought a few pre-made lures at the store.
Big Papa I have a nice collection of pink grubs and worms, I usually rig them carolina style for metalheads, but might have to try combining it with a maribou jig. My next project will be making jig heads. As I can save a bit of cash making my own instead of buying jig heads in bulk (which has became harder to find). I used to pour my own rubber worms but have not done that since I moved to the wet side, no good walley or bass fishin over here.
I finally found a lead on a cheap toaster oven so I can get back into doing small production runs of powder coated jig heads, which means more jig heads, more jigs, more powder coated lures etc etc etc, hmm maybe its a disease!
Shootmoore
