Looking for cheaper alternatives to roadrunner jig heads, bladed heads that is.

Any leads/links greatly appreciated.

Thanks

There's a handful that are great on this forum. Look up REDGUN on here. He has several jig heads including what you're looking for....great product, great customer service.

Yes REDGUN has some weedless underspin jig heads like you're talking about that look pretty good.

Thanks for the kind words guys.

I do have a mold for the RR head, but can't legally sell them (Blakemoore has a trademark on that style head). I make them for personal use or have to give them away. I like the RR head, but wanted some with the sickle hooks.

PM sent

Lucky Strike 1/16 ounce at Walmart. Great price and good jigs

But you can take "Donations" correct?
aka; Paypal Gift

The way I understand it, no.

Cash money (even Paypal) can not change hands or seller can get in VERY bad trouble, with Blakemoore.

I have come up with a way to get around this, pm for details.

that head design has been around for a LONG time, seems the patent would be expired by now. names are trademarked.

I looked on ebay they sell pony head jigs and a mold. Evidently the name applies not the style.

I called Blakemoore and asked about this very thing: "other people" are selling roadrunner style heads,... if they can get away with it, can I start selling them??

His response was "Well,...yes,....until we catch up to you".

There are soo many people selling them, it takes a while for their lawyers to find each seller, but eventually they will. He led me to believe (maybe its just a scare tactic??) that it isn't pretty, when they do finally catch up to you. They (Blakemoore) may just want a percentage of the sales, I really don't know. There is just not enough profit, selling jigheads, for me to take any chance of getting into legal issues.

No idea how DO-It was able to legally make the mold, but it is supposed to be for "personal use" only. This includes being able to give them away to friends.

Here is a 10 page post, from another site, discussing this issue. Skip_48, on this site, knows way more about it than I do. With any luck, maybe he will chime in and explain it better.

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-tying-lure-making-forum/209436-poney-heads-horse-heads/

I bought this mold so I COULD sell heads/spinjigs. Until I put the weedguard in my ponyhead mold, I used these exclusively and really like them.

Ive got the same mold,still sell them after a cold winter shut in
I file off the eye bumps before painting and also dont put eyes on them
They aint caught me in 20+ yrs they aint gonna I reckon
Lawyers with stompy feet aint of much account no way to an honest man picking up a few nickles

Here is a post from Skip 48 in 2010:

Possibly some are smart enough not to put pictures on their site that can get them sued big time. Blakemore owns the design trademark on Roadrunner & Pony heads. Anyone selling Pony heads are risking a big problem and if you don't believe me just ask the guy that use to make stump Jumpers to Bass Pro. I still thank him for telling me when I first got some pony heads and was risking this even though I had not idea. He lost everything!

Sooner or later all these post and people selling more and more will bring their attention to this.

Felt the need to say this one more time as a warning and hopefully a help to keep someone from losing everything they have worked for.

Just to show how this kind of thing can be trouble. I had some jigs pictured on my site with school colors and had one with LSU jig and one Auburn Jig and got contacted by a Law firm that represented them and told I was not allowed to do that without permission as it infringed on their trademarks. So infringing on a trademark is a big deal and at some point the roof is going to fall in on some. Believe me I removed any words that called the jig by any school name, LOL!

Skip

Looks like selling them is illegal!

Blakemore has a Configuration Trademark on the horse head design. So I guess it's unique enough they can hold onto it indefinitely.