# Spoons and spinnerbaits: a three-part order

> A spinnerbait is a head, a blade and a skirt, and they can come from three suppliers. Why the widest price spread here is mostly a unit problem.

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Direct answer. A spinnerbait is an assembly of three parts - a head, a blade and a skirt - and they can come from three different suppliers, so a custom order has to place all three rather than specify the finished bait. The blade is the part buyers under-specify most often, because blade shape and blade size are separate fields and two baits with the same head fish differently when the blade shape changes. In our six-listing sample the published range runs US$0.31 to US$6.00, and most of that 19x spread is a unit problem rather than a product one. Key facts. 1) A spinnerbait is a head, a blade and a skirt, and the three can come from three different suppliers. 2) Blade shape and blade size are separate fields; two baits with the same head can fish differently on shape alone. 3) Our six-listing sample runs US$0.31 to US$6.00, the widest published range of any type in this catalog. 4) Two of the six listings are priced per bag rather than per piece, which is most of the apparent spread at the top of the range. 5) Blade thickness and finish decide whether a delivery vibrates the way the approved sample did. Frequently asked questions. Q: Why is the price range for spoons and spinners so wide? A: Mostly because of the unit. Our six sampled listings run from US$0.31 to US$6.00, and two of those six are priced per bag rather than per piece. A per-bag row placed next to per-piece rows creates a spread that does not exist in the product. It is the same failure we record in every type, at its most extreme here. Q: What is the part a buyer most often under-specifies? A: The blade. Buyers specify the head weight and the skirt color, because those are the two things visible in a photograph, and they leave the blade as a phrase rather than a specification. Blade shape and blade size are separate fields, and a different shape with the same size fishes differently. Q: What does it mean that a spinnerbait is three parts? A: It means the quotation should have three lines rather than one. The head is cast, the blade is stamped and finished, and the skirt is assembled. Different suppliers may hold each, and a buyer who prices only the finished bait cannot see which of the three is driving the cost. Q: Why does blade finish matter more than it looks? A: Because finish and thickness decide how the blade behaves as it rotates or wobbles, and that behaviour is what the fish responds to. A delivery with a thinner blade will start turning at a different speed from the approved sample while looking identical on the bench. Q: What should a spoon or spinner order state? A: Five fields: the blade shape, the blade size, the blade thickness or nominal gauge, the head weight and material, and the hook configuration. Add the skirt specification for a spinnerbait, and the packing format so a per-bag quote can be brought onto the same basis as a per-piece one. Sources (3). 1) The six-listing sample behind every figure on this page — /opportunities/spoon-and-spinner-suppliers-china/ 2) How the hard lure range is filed by type — /opportunities/hard-lure-suppliers-china/ 3) Our rule for separating a claim from its evidence — /opportunities/editorial-rules/ A spinnerbait looks like one product and is three, and the part buyers specify least carefully is the part the fish reacts to. Three parts, three suppliers A spinnerbait carries a cast head, a stamped blade and a skirt. Spoons and spinners generally share the same three components: a metal blade, a wire form and a hook. None of the three has to come from the same place as the others. That has a direct consequence for the quotation. A price for the finished bait hides which of the three is driving it, so a buyer cannot tell whether a cheaper quotation is a cheaper head or a thinner blade. The order should be placed as three lines even when one supplier holds all three. Three parts, three processes, and potentially three suppliers. A single price for the finished bait hides which of them is driving the cost. The blade is the under-specified field Blade shape and blade size are separate fields. Buyers tend to specify size, because size is a number, and leave shape as a phrase. Two baits can then carry the same head weight and the same blade size and behave differently, because the shape of the blade decides how it moves through the water. Blade thickness and finish sit behind that. They decide how readily the blade starts to turn and how it behaves once it does. A delivery with a thinner blade will come up to speed at a different retrieve from the approved sample, and the two will look identical on a bench. What the sample shows Our spoon and spinner sample holds six listings, and its published range runs from US$0.31 to US$6.00. That is the widest spread of any type in this catalog and it is worth reading carefully, because most of it is not a product difference. Two of the six listings are priced per bag rather than per piece. Placed next to per-piece rows, those two create most of the spread at the top of the range. The remaining range across comparable rows is far narrower. MOQ across the six runs from 50 to 500 pieces, which is the practical floor for a custom blade order. The six span a weed-guard spinner, a rotating-sequence spoon, a bionic spoon, a spinnerbait and a 32mm ultra-light sequin. That is five distinct products under one type name, as we record in several other types. What the order has to state Blade shape. Named, not described. This is the field that decides movement. Blade size. Separate from shape, and not a substitute for it. Blade thickness or nominal gauge. The field that decides when the blade starts working. Head weight and material. Cast and finished as a separate step. Hook configuration. Quoted separately, and replaced separately on a trailer-hook model. Skirt specification for a spinnerbait: material, strand count and color. Add the packing format. Without it a per-bag quotation cannot be placed next to a per-piece one, and the comparison becomes wrong without becoming obviously wrong. Send a specification See the spoon and spinner record