2nd that ... love that cloudy blue color ..

[QUOTE=Tagger;737977]nice plug Fred ,,, Cape Cod Ceadar ? Flap refferrance ..

Hi Eddie!
From an Eastern Cedar in my front yard. From the top of it you can see P-town and beyond to Wood End and Race Point. Look the other way and you can see Head of the Meadow and Coast Guard. Look South and you can see Pamet and beyond. Not that I was ever in the top of that tree...

Eddy which face got a pic i may be able to help you as i am working on some flaptails myself.



3rd that and yes that cloudy blue color jumps out at you.

I, as well as many other people are lucky to call Bigfish a friend. Larry did most of the first one, then we split the second one, and he said he didn't look as I did the third one all myself, but I think Bigfish looked over my shoulder a little.

In that picture of me holding the two plugs I look strange. I think I was OD'ing on sawdust. Or the meds for the pulled back muscles were wearing off. Any way I had a wonderful day in the cave with Bigfish. Now I just have to keep from screwing up the paint job.
Peace everyone.

Hey Lu ... took a while to do that .. hope your still there .. any help appreciated .. I have no control just winging it on the belt sander .. Shorter plug was much longer ,,but I planned to make some single hook ,, still need a method ... This can't be the way Heddon di it .. Atom like plug I'm not sure on the face yet .. but I plan to do cotter pin hangers on there .. Made flaptail brackets myself .. Bought picture hanging kit and threw everything away ,, just wanted brass nails .. sure there's a better way there too .. Beetle Juice !!!!!

Glad you guys like. I feel the key is the slow drying paint. Testers spray enamel and the Krlon Short cuts set up to touch in 30 min. The 12 min spray colors tack quickly when you remove the wrap or slide thru your latex gloved hand. Gotta go. Will ck. in later. Have a sparkling week.

Eddy i am making the same type of lure (Heddon Vamp) i will be making a jig to make the faces today i will send all info and take pics for you as i figured an easy way to do it.

:jump1: :happy:

Eddy i wa going to make my own flaptail holders were did you get those?

Ross, here is what I use for pencil faces. Just rough out the angle with a saw and make the face with this angled v block (glued up 2 4x4's).

I made them myself ... hook holders are large from Moores... I think netcraft sells them too .. I know swivels are better than brass nails and thru wired over hangers ,,. trying to make something old looking .. something Flap would like .. I also plan on fishing them ..

Eddie had pm'd me to ask if I hyrdro oriented the darters and it was an interesting question so I am posting the answer here.

I did not hydro orient them this year (at least not yet). The end grain of maple soaks up a lot of sealer, in fact I oversealed a batch last year and they were too heavy to float once they were wired.

last year I hydro oriented them before cutting the slope, and after they were sealed, some of them floated differently. I think the weight of the sealer absorbed thru the end grain on the darter slope made them float differently.

There was a discussion a few years back about hydro orienting I think on SOL, and someone had said that if a primed blank of theirs floated wrong, they'd found if they just sprayed another coat of primer on one side that the weight of the paint was enough to even it out. So I was going to try that this year.

probably why Musso went to plastic, too many variables. maybe only worth sealing for a short time line and take your chances with water intrusion.

Eddy here is the jig i made today for doing the faces on the Vamps.

That could be done with a drum sander in a drill press, too! Woohoo! Thanks Lu!

I wish you hadn't shown that. I've resisted making a router table for 20 years, now I feel like I need one :crying:

Can never have enough tools George.:uhuh:

nice Lu ... you screw the blanks on jig up thru the bottom ?

Lu thats a great jig. You guys have some ingenious ideas about how to do things...

No Eddy i have two wooden dowels sticking out and mount the lure on them(belly holes).I will take more pics when i get home later.Takes about 20 seconds to do both sides.When i made the pattern i double sided taped two pieces of oak and then marked the wood for the cut then separated the pieces giving me exact copies flip one and you get a mirror image of the other.The hard part was the spacing before i would commit to screwing it together i used crazy glue to hold the pattern for the first side as i tested it to get the desired depth once i got it i predrilled and screwed it tight then did the same for the other side.

George looking at your drill press i am surprised you have not made a table top for it.

And looking at your extension cord set up I wonder why you're still alive. Stay away from toaster ovens is all I can say.

:biglaugh::biglaugh::rotf2::rotf2: Just surge protecting everything .

trying to make this ,,, Heddon (swimmer-flaptail) in upper right hand corner .. PIA .. very labor intensive .. I can see I already messed up line tie ,, mines horizontal .. I never saw a flaptail swimmer .. can't see it swimming very well ,, Thanks Lu .... nice inferno Numby ..

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I'm going to have so much solder on top of this plug I gotta belly weight so it don't flip ..

:rotf2::rotf2:I had the cord catch in my drill press and it ripped the 4' flourescent light off the ceiling on top of me .. I had to change my shorts ..

I never seen that lure Eddy and your solder work looks great nice job on all the hardware :uhuh:.I can't wait to see the finished product:drool::drool:.I know we are not the only two making flaptails i wonder what the other mad scientists are working on?

Morning guys. started painting the army of plugs. An endless task, especially when you have airbrush hell. finally search threads on brush remedies. Cutting paint w/50/50 windex and water worked much better than straight water. Plus I was using to thick of consisitency. The single stage gun was used for base coats and top/bottom colors. Dual stage for fogging and lateral lines. I use the Bernzy formula for cleaning. Lucky for myself I have a utility sink w/in reach of my airbrush to clean out w/air and hot water. Had the heat gun set up to set the paint. Don't know if necessary but I like the way the paint dries to faciitate a second coat or color overlay. Haven't spun anything inweeks. Prepping the plugs to get ready for paint took all spare time. I have a template made for a GTS-2 & GTS-3. Hope everyone had a good week.

Good mornin' all. I got so much in the works I'm getting dizzy. Only a month to finish it........gonna be ugly. Nothing is past the primer stage and most haven't even seen sealer yet.

Winter ain't long enough these days.

i hear you george. I have not primed anything yet. I think this year I am not going to kill myself this last month and bring what I have finished and that's it. Will give me more time to visit others and enjoy myself more. Last year was very hectic the last few weeks and it got to be not fun.I am looking at a few hundred sealed plugs right now and I know there is no way in hell they are all getting finished and I don't really care.

Hi guys, I have a few plugs to epoxy from last year and many scattered bodies but I'd like to turn a few before the fest. I was thinking of trying that bluefish bomb plug.