Metal jigs: when price is flat, weight and hook decide
Metal jigs are the type in this catalogue where price is the least useful field, because our five sampled listings sit inside a 2.1x band from US$0.97 to US$2.01 per piece.
- Our metal jig sample holds 5 listings between US$0.97 and US$2.01 per piece, a 2.1x spread.
- Weight spans 20 g to 120 g across the same five listings - a 6x range, and the field that moves most.
- MOQ is 200 pieces on four of the five listings and 100 on the fifth.
This is the type in the catalogue where the price list tells you the least. Five sampled listings sit inside a band narrow enough that a buyer choosing on price is choosing between near-identical numbers.
A narrow band is information
Our metal jig sample holds five listings, priced between US$0.97 and US$2.01 per piece. That is a 2.1x spread, one of the two narrowest in the catalogue. For comparison, the same catalogue records a 19x published range for spoons and spinners.
A band that narrow tells a buyer something useful: the product is a lead casting, a finish and a hook, and those three inputs do not vary much between suppliers. The price is not where the difference lives.
Weight is where the difference lives
The same five listings span 20 g to 120 g. That is a sixfold range, roughly three times the price spread, and it is the field that actually separates the products from one another.
Weight is not one decision, it is several. A 20 g jig is a finesse presentation. A 120 g jig is fished where the fish are large and the structure is hard. The two are the same casting and finishing process at opposite ends of a range, and they need different terminal setups.
That asymmetry is why an order should lead with weight and treat price as a derived figure: the price per piece barely moves across the range, while what the buyer receives changes completely.
Lead is a live input
Lead is the body material in our sample. That makes the metal a commodity input rather than a fixed process cost, so the material line moves with the market while the casting and finishing lines do not.
The practical consequence is that a jig quotation carries a shelf life. A price quoted without a validity window is a price for a market that has already moved, and a buyer comparing quotations taken weeks apart may be comparing two different metal markets rather than two suppliers.
What the order has to state
- Weight, with a tolerance. A nominal 60 g arriving at 54 g is a different lure, not a bait that is slightly out. Casting tolerance is a real field and it belongs in the order.
- Body material. Lead in our sample, and stated, because it is the input that floats.
- Finish. Plating or paint, a separate process step.
- Hook or assist configuration. Single, treble or assist cord, named rather than assumed.
- Eye or line-tie position. It decides how the jig hangs on the drop.
The quotation should also carry a validity date. That is not a formality on this type; it is the field that makes two quotations comparable.
Sources 3 cited
- The five-listing metal jig sample behind every figure on this page
- Which cluster casts metal jigs, and on what volume
- Our rule for separating a claim from its evidence
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The same list is declared in the page structured data (schema.org citation) and in the Markdown twin.