Fatman, I want to know why guys like those wire keepers rather than a collar and barb? The reason I ask is I will often change baits and put a soft plastic that I had been using in my "used bag" which is a bag of baits that were already on a hook. When I used jigs with wire keepers, and I had to try them as everyone was using them, I found I hated them because there was no changing out baits, and it is probably the reason guys go through so many bags of soft plastics as the ones fish on heads with wire keepers are on for good because removeal means the bait is junk. Hawn, you could make the straight cut with a dremel, if you have a ruler or straight edge and a scratch awl it is easy, what I do is place the ruler where I want to make the cut and then hold it in place and then run a scratch awl up and down a few times using the ruler as the guide. Now once you have a nice score you can take say the carbide cutting disk and as you move it will stay in the small groove you made with the awl. I've done it on molds I filled the weedguard slot up with JB Weld and once it was dry I made the groove and then cut for wire weedguards and it was flawless. Another nice thing you can use to help is the flex shaft, it allows you to hold the cutting tool like an over size pen or pencil, that really make cutting easy.
