1 - Fold 20cm of 0.30mm piano wire to make a 10cm braid. Shape a 3 to 5mm bridge by folding the end of the braid at right angles.

2 - Set the spring of the guard by pressing your finger lightly on it. Maintain the spring with one hand while the other folds the two ends of the wire backward. Set the bridge free and open the guard at right angles to the hook shank. While maintaining them backward and on either side, bind the two pieces of wire very tightly along 1.5cm of the shank.

  3 – Cut the excess wire. To finish and stow the hook: make the final knot, apply cyanolite and set the bridge back behind the barb. To continue: run the thread with touching turns level with the barb. Then fold a 49 strand/12kg wire trace of 20cm to make a 10cm braid.

  4 – Insert a link swivel in the loop of the trace and offer up the whole as shown by the needle in the photo. Bind very tightly with touching turns of thread towards the eye back to the middle of the hook shank. Fold the wire trace backwards and bind tightly with touching turns of thread to the swivel. Cut the excess trace and lock the  trace/swivel joint under thread. Again run touching turns of thread to mid shank.

   5 – Apply a liberal coating of cyanolite along the whole shank taking care not to glue the swivel pivot. Form a small ball ( or a cone with the point forward) mid shank. Apply cyanolite and leave to dry. Then take wide turns to the bend.

  6 - Offer up a rabbit fur strip on either side of the shank ( with the tail end sticking about 7cm farther than the bend). Bind tightly to 2 or 3mm in front of the ball.

  7 – After putting it in a hair stacker, offer up a bunch of bucktail, points facing backwards, in front of the ball and tie it with two loose turns of thread. Spin the bucktail evenly round the shank, then bind it with two or three tight turns to flare it.

  8 – Continue binding moderately with touching turns to the top of ball or cone. Apply cyanolite on the binding and on the surface contact of the hair from the base of the cone backward. Leave to dry. Trim excess hair.

  9 – Offer up a rabbit fur strip. Wind the thread with touching turns down to the weed guard. Apply a touch of cyanolite gel on top of the shank and wind the fur strip down to the waiting thread. Tie it with a few turns and trim excess. Bring the tying thread in front of the weed guard and tie off making a cylinder whose inner diameter is that of the silicone tube.

  10 –Apply cyanolite on the cylindrical head. Position the weed guard behind the barb. The standard tail module is over!