agreed woody, this is why I make sure to now thin it out pretty good for dipping.

It means the paint is not sticking to the primer.

Jigman

I have never had that issue! Even after hook rash and dings my paint and clearcoat hold great with no lifting or peeling at all!:)

I've noticed ... What's your clear coat ? ...:love:

Good morning, looks like I'm early...

Here's this weeks projects... I got a few of the darters from last week sealed. I turned a bunch of stuff yesterday. Some 'jointed' bodies to be done with the 'nike' stye head I've been messing with, a few more 6" darters and some that I supersized up to 7.5" to try on my conventional plugging rod which I'm hoping to use more next year.

I'd like a big swimmer in the 3.5-4 oz range and I ran some searches looking for dimensions on the big donny. I could find the overall length 7.5 and the lip pikie 3, but didn't find anything about widths or hook locations ?

I haven't been doing any finishing yet. I wanted to try and get everything turned and sealed first.

Good morning.
That's about where I am. My plugs are turned and marked, and some have started down the machineing belt. I did manage to clear some that have been in the works for a long while. Lurkers...and one offs.

After all the tutorials on darters I may gut it up and give them a try again.

Morning! Just back from breakfast with FishChick! I had a visitor in the shop yesterday for some plug building lessons! Pics in a moment! The "Kid" is a natural!:uhuh:

Here's one in particular that I've been working on. Cape Cod wood from a Cape Cod tree, made into a Cape Cod plug. I cut the branch last Summer and dried it on top of my furnace. Flaptail had mentioned that such a plug would be cool..

Good Morning guys.Fred that pretty cool:kewl:.Here are some i have been working on.

Fred that plug is awesome!:drool:

Lou you been busy!:uhuh:

Oops forgot these.

I had a lot of help over the years with that plug. There's a lot of PM and numbskull in it.
Lu you're making me want to build a duplicator. My plugs all look like they don't know each other.

Here is the pic of the fancy paint shaker i made.You have to love gorilla tape.This thing rocks turns paint that has been sitting their for over2 years into a milkshake in 30 seconds.

As The Swimmer Turns!
 

Frank came over yesterday for a day of plug turning! One of Frank's favorite plugs is the Guppy Canal Pencils made by the Hess Family, great plugs for sure and a favorite of many! Frank took a 32 pounder one day last season from the ditch......one of my season highlights was watching Frank play that fish! This season Frank will be fishing his Guppy knockoffs I am sure! Here are a few pics of Frank at the lathe!

Lou is that a jig saw [can't enlarge thumb?] ingenious !!

Jake I know the feeling sometimes my plugs are cousins sometimes strangers need more brother & sisters

Save yourself the trouble just send me the ones you want and i will copy them for you.:devil2:

Here is Frank in a few more of the finished body! A little more hand sanding and Frank will have them in sealer! Nice work Frank and a great day! Thanks for coming by.....and for the coffee!:uhuh:

Yes its an old jigsaw i had sitting around.

Lu, awesome!
In the works..

All youzz guys stuff looks great. I am pretty much done with turning, except for some small runs of some vintage stuff that several members of both sites have been nice enough to lend me this winter, still got a few coming. Some real nice Musso's and Pichney's. I really enjoy that part, the old stuff. I am sealing every day now and belly weighting now and soon it will be prime time. Still got a special tail wgt mold in the process for Slip and I and a plug fixture or 2 for myself. trying to clean up that deal I got on the Delta drill press and I have a few lip styles I need to make for those vintage plugs I will be doing so I have gov. jobs going at work too. I luv being too busy as I get bored fast and jump around a lot, must be my ADD.

Good morning, Paul
You have ADD, I have SUBTRACT, I lose stuff just by putting it down. Sometimes it's still in my hand. I was clearing yeaterday and lost my acid brush. Guess where I found it..:smash:In my hand. E-tex makes you high..

nice Fred. I like them.
Lawrence it looks like you got the heat going in your cave, No?

Nice job on those pencils Frank. I am now making 4 sizes of those things right down to a cute little one. It is my favorite canal plug and has been since Brad made them. In mine I weight the crap out of them and really just for the canal as they are really too heavy for non current applications. You got a good mentor.

What is it called it you have both?:wall:

BF and Frank, did you cut the front of the pencil on a bandsaw? The bottom looks like you maybe used a drum sander???

I would be really interested in seeing some jigs for cutting different plug blanks on a band saw.

No luck on selling the Shopsmith, so am going to use it for the lathe and boring. Maybe get a mini and duplicator next year....

Not getting the lathe turning yet, as we are in the process of packing up my mom's condo and moving her to a retirement community this week, and storing much stuff at my house...:smash: I hope to be turning within two weeks.

Fred you need some acid brushes? I will bring you some at plugfest as I got a lot of them and I am using something different now. You are welcome some of them. Then you can leave them everywhere. BTW I do that all the time, especially the pencil on my ear thing.

Mornin all. finish dip priming all the fleet this week. Started painting alittle. Might put together a booth. I have a ton to paint. I did swirl a atom jr and BM spin atom. Spary paint and a plastic glove plug rolled thru my hand. saran wrap also worked. Key was to have paint that doesn't set up instantly. I base spray gloss enamel ivory white, spray desired color then pull plug thru gloved hand. For the wrap method, spray paint , wrap and quickly remove plaaticwrap.

a losing battle

going to have to try some of those swirl finishes some day . I like the looks of those

nice plug Fred ,,, Cape Cod Ceadar ? Flap refferrance ..

Frank,, You'll enjoy catching on that plug .. nice job ..


Lu .. I think I got that same jig saw ..brillant .

I havn't really been hitting it as hard as you guys ,,. Been messing with old school hook hangers,,cotter pins ,, Flaptail quest got me interrested .. made some predators,, and 3 differant flaptails going now.. I expect it to be slow this winter ,, so thinking more time in the future .. Sux cutting that goofy beetlejuice face on plugs .. Just winging it ,, Made a 2 belly hook plug that ended up a single hook after back and forth on the beltsander trying to get face even ..

Dave Ross pm'd you ... cool darters

pbadad, those look great! Thanks for the tip, too! gonna try that.