I recently have been getting into making my own lures, mostly because they are alot less pricey.  I would like to know if anyone has ever used other blades for saftey pin style spinnerbaits, such as dakota blades, tomahawk blades, presto blades, shelton blades, or french blades?  Most of those blades are for other species like walleye, and salmon.  But would they work for bass, or has that option long been dismissed?

I would depend on how thick the metal and the retrieve speed needed to get the blade(s) to turn.

I have used French blades for spinnerbaits but mostly prefer them for in-lines. Colorado blades are my main blade for in-line spins and spinnerbaits, as well as willow leaf and Indiana.

Can't hurt to try.

BASS fisherman

just for what it's worth ---

i saw a hank parker episode earlier this week and he, & bobby murray were fishing.  they were talking spinner baits & blades & they said something like this.   ....different blades (willow, indiana) have different feelings, but the colorado blade has the RIGHT feeling!

now, that's advice from two who Really Know!

I changed a couple of 1/4 OZ spinnerbaits to french blades that I removed from inline spinners.  They caught a bunch of river smallies for me. ;D  I lost them and a bunch of other stuff in an unfortunate kayak incident.  :'(  At least I held on to rod I built last winter.  ;D  I glad I read this post I think I will change out a couple more spinnerbaits to french blades.  ;D

I suggest you try any blade combination you can dream up and let the fish tell you what is good.  Something different may be just the ticket to a boat load of big BASS!!

I've got some spinnerbaits that have missing blades. I would like to try and replace them, but I can't find any components for sale from my usual outlets (BPS and Cabela's). Where do you guys buy your spinnerbait components from?