BK lures - Bio and photo's

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   B K Lures were started by Bruce Kilpatrick.Bruce lives up on the Atherton Tableland.
He made his first lures at school in 1973 and proceeded to make them for friends and family right up to 1993.
He told me that in the early days his lures were quite crude but still caught lots of Barras.
He used to cut them out of Cedar or Beech with a jigsaw then hold a drill with sanding disc attached between his feet and sand them good enough to then finely handsand for painting.
From 1993 onwards till 2002 he made lures commercially for shops and markets.
An airbrush was used in conjunction with Auto paint.
His early lures had Gal twisted wires and all the latter ones Stainless Steel.
His early Market lures had Stainless Steel Bibs which were hand cut and the latter ones were all Alloy.
In 1997 bruce made a bib Press that cut 2 alloy bibs of 2 different sizes at the same time.
Bruce also made a few Bluewater deep diving Mackerel lures  as well as only about 20 large high speed bibless lures.He also made a range of poppers from small to quite large with a very unique spinning blade technique.
All his flat sided lures were made using a spindle moulding machine which he made.
These flat sided lures were first cut out with a band saw then put into the moulder after which a linisher was used to make them ready for painting.
In 1998 Bruce made a copy lathe to create many of the other shapes he had.
In 2002 Bruce stopped making lures.Due to good timber getting harder and harder to locate and overseas imports flooding the market he found it increasingly difficult to make a living from what he loved to do.
Hope you like some of the lures of Bruce's that I have posted up on the next page.