How to Build a Crayfish Trap for Under $5 - Part 3 - Finishing

this is what the comb looks like when it's completed so you can see our line of stitching down this side and if you measured everything right your comb should match up with the body of the cylinder so when we actually put this in we're going to be putting it in this way before we put that in we want to put in our anti escape device so you just take that little strip we had and you want to bind one side just like we did the cylinder so you can see it's a little cylinder with little pointy ends on it we're going to need to take that and actually whip stitch it to the end of this now if you notice this hole a little bigger than this and it kind of free floats in there and that's okay when you whip this together this end is going to kind of come in and get really tight so I'm going to tell you what I'm talking about I've gone ahead and I've done one already you can see how the end sort of dips in so it's going to be a little tricky to do this and you can see how some of the stitching looks kind of uneven so long as your gaps aren't any bigger than the half inch squares of the mesh you're fine because I mean the mesh isn't perfect either it's got holes in it so as long as the holes in your stitching aren't any bigger than the holes in your mesh you're fine so it doesn't have to be super tight and super neat this will work really well so I'm going to go ahead and do that to this and but the next step is we're going to actually have to do this in a larger scale I actually attach this to the main body here so I'm going to go ahead and finish up the other cone and then I'm going to stitch these to the inside and it's very simple basically the same thing we did with this stitch but you're just going to be wrapping around wherever you can find a hold you just want a wrap wrap wrap just keep going all the way around so I'm going to show you what that looks like when it's done here we go right here are both the cones attached so you can see here you just kind of want to whip this fairly loose it's not super tight there's there's still a little movement a little bit of play like I said as long as the gap isn't any larger than the mesh you should be fine you don't want it to be too tight because you know while this does lend to so some support to the trap at least for me the whole point of this trap is that you know it can get crushed it can get squished and it's not going to damage it so here's that now all we're going to do is attach the door so you've taken your door piece you want to basically just line it up along the top seam here you just whip it together so I'm going to go ahead and do that and I'll show you what that looks like one thing I like to do is actually keep the door open like this you can see it's completely open and then I have access to this fairly easily just whip it now you don't want to pull super tight because this is a hinge you want this door to be able to open and close and we're going to go over this two times so it's not really important you what happened there it's not really important to have this be tight it can be some play in it so I'm just going to keep on doing this until I go down then I'm going to come back I'm going to do this row they come back and then finish it off at the end so show you that when I'm done right here's the door finish not to get it closed what you may have to do is just sort of grab it and pull the door part over onto the top so what I mean here is you can see here the door pieces are up on top and on here they're on the bottom you just got to need to pull it up it over that way it can easily closed you don't have to worry about babying this you don't have to be too gentle just kind of get the door to close the ones who do that there we go the door closes so now we're going to work on a simple latch there's a lot of things you can do if you wanted to you could just take a piece of string and tie this in the middle or tie it on two sides if you got a large enough rubber band you could put a rubber band over this you can tie the whole thing shut with a big piece of rope what I like to do is make a little hook out of wire you can use any type of wire you want I've been using clothes hanger so if I'm using a clothes hanger I like using the coated ones because they don't show rust as quickly but what I like to do is what I like to do is with a pair of pliers and my wire I like to just take the end here and bend it back a little bit not too much then I go and I bend it around and this becomes my hook that's a little small full I get a little bigger there's my hook then I go about an inch or so down and I make a full loop pull my pliers free and then snip that end off there I have my little hook take my pliers open it up now I've got this hook I just take it place it on here so that this hook is facing down like this I'll take my pliers and I just crimp the bottom so that it'll hold together and it won't move then I just bring the door down and then find a spot to hook it on there we go now that door is secure it's not going to open up it's not going anywhere and your crayfish aren't going anywhere so there's it's the main body of the trap while finished up so some things you might want to add you can add a rope plant or something similar to the outside of this so this is what I usually use it's a little clamp like this so you could just take it and see if let me do it you just hook it onto your trap and as far as broke pretty much any kind of rope will work I like using probably propylene rope as it floats you can use paracord pretty much anything I prefer to use darker colors because I tend to leave my traps on the ground or the trap lines on the ground they're less visible that way less likely to be stolen but if you're actually going to use floats you may want a brightly colored line but that's pretty much it another thing you can do is actually take some of your rope tie on either side up here that way you can attach to this little handle the benefits of doing it this way is that you know when there's a lot of weight in here it's pulling from two sides instead of just that one point in the middle so it can take a little more it can hold a little more weight another thing that's nice about this is when you're carrying your trap around you have a handle to hold it here's a finished rap you you

Channel: BackyardBowyer

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Keywords: archery, pvc bow, backyard bowyer, Crayfish (Food)

Id: r_6pP_ZCoH8

Length: 10min 30sec (630 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 27 2014