This weeks work
 

Hello to all, this is what I have been working on this week! Thanks to Prof. M I got a Nike done last night. I'm pretty satisfied with it. Trying to get more info on some of the old plugs so I can reproduce this winter, love the old ones!! Lou

Good morning everyone. Looks like everybody is busy. We've got ice all over everything here this morning. Gonna do some more building this afternoon. Here's a couple things I've got done recently.

Some stuff for freshwater. Small handcarved stuff and a scaled down jointed. Small swimmers that I fish in both fresh and salt the little blue over white has been a great largemouth plug. And a couple thin swimmers.

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Let us know how that works out if you can.:uhuh:

eye for detail:smash:

nice job on the Nike. It is a really nice plug and fun to build. Got as many curves as a pregnant women.

Hi guys and Ted and Sgt. those plugs look :drool::drool::drool:.

Couple more. Some yozuri bomber type handcarved stuff. And another handcarved I been playing with.Attachment 37124

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[QUOTE=the greek;728489] And a couple thin swimmers.

I got one of those. Nice plug

Where the hell is the Lawrence? hungover?

Ok i have to ask were is the Big Guy.Lu calling Bigfish:wall::wall::wall:

LOL Paul we posted at the same time.:rotf2::rotf2:

got a few more going.

some Lido flaptails

some small poppers I did pretty good on in the ditch this year

some more topwaters. I was very happy with this bastardization of a jigman spook and youzouri hydro pencil. I weighted it horizontal on center from one side to the other. Did 2 with belly wgts too just to see if it works better. Caught a lot of fish from the boat on it in the spring and the fall. My best job of the year. I like it out of red cedar, epoxy sealed, but I tried several other species of wood too this time.

Paul me thinks you are part beaver the way you chew through all that wood.

Lu. This weighting works great. My buddys love the way it casts, fishes and catches. The weight is a 1/4" lead rod 3" long. Approx. 1oz. Pix of blank b/4 turned and a finished turning. A 1/4' dowel is glued in the drilled weight hole b/4 turned.

Paul on the jigspook did you insert your weight side to side and then drill through it?

LOL . that ain't the half of it Lu. I go like crazy turning now then I am done for the year pretty much for the turning. Then I take a more leisurely pace to finish the stuff and I won't finish it all just what I feel like doing. I really don't enjoy the turning all that much after the first one and am glad to get it out of the way. I do like all the other aspects though and make them last longer. Kind of like getting rid of the candy outside to get to the rich chocolate center.:uhuh:

yes and I really liked the action. It is a pretty big weight for that size plug but it is kind of a fat plug too so it is a wash.

The turned model shows if you look hard, the dowel plug in the tail. The blank shows the dimentions. 3"from hook hole center to nose, showing the 3" area for the weight and the length from tail to end of weight hole 5". Plug 8.25" total length.

I will show you my similar way later. I got to go get ready for Church the wife is yelling at me.

Hey guys, I'll get back later. Gotta vacuum the family room and then go and play in the "Dungeon". Have a great day.

Thanks Pbadad and everyone else.Talk to you later off to do some chores.Have a great days guys.

Good stuff guys. Sorry I missed it, I was on kid duty this morning. Seems like a thread that will keep going though. I'll take some pics this afternoon.

Yes, I have, but without the original to copy mine sucked. The line tie on the larger version is not on center.

Hey Paul. The plug Lu showed is a copy of a standard Musso Pine Sr. It uses a Pikie 3 lip. The plug you, Art, and a few others (Eddy I think) have is a creation I call a skinny donny. It is more heavily weighted and uses a lefty 2 mid slot lip. Very unstable plug that guys who use spinning tackle have a hard time reeling slowly enough. Don't have any unfinished ones left...they're all freehand anyways so they vary some. I'll see if I wrote down what I put in it for weight.

Pb.....the xray is of the wooden smaller atom jr. I don't know much about the styrofoam version......Grapenuts is the guy to ask about anything atom. I copied the 54b name from you, so we both may be wrong. Daignault makes mention of a heavily weighted atom jr that he caught 2 fifty pound fish on.....perhaps that is what you have although I always assumed it was a wood version.

Sgt Striper......what old plugs are you interested in, I might be able to help.

Lu, thanks for fishing the plug. I noticed that since I started heat setting the createx and drying the epoxied plugs in a heated box (@100 degrees) they have been much more durable.

Funny you mention that George as i just made this out of something i used to keep all my flammables in.Two walled steel and look at my heating source:jump1:

You can't see it but there is a turkey thermometer taped to the roof on the inside.:rotf2::rotf2:When it pops lures are done.

Try two or three light bulbs on a rheostat, Lu. You'll melt less extension cords that way.

Gee, I didn't know they made cabinets for flammables. I just store them under my wife's home office. ;)

You guys are all unreal. Some real talent on this board. I wish I had 1/1000 of the woodturning/problem solving/skill that you guys have.

George gets up to 200degrees in about 5 minutes with the heat gun.I am working on getting a thermostat and another heat source though.I have not burned or even come close to heating up any extension cords and this was a quick setup to test out.My wheels are still spinning:smash:.

Yes I built a few and this one was my first and best attempt. It swims nice and takes on a little darter like character in current. It is weighted mid point like a danny. I tried to make a better casting one with a tail weight and it was a turd. This is one of my favorite plugs to fish sometimes I just like watching it swim.

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You Guys Have Been Busy
 

Getting some house projects out of the way but I did get to start a few.

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Funny as Tagger asked me about these a week or 2 ago. looks like a neat plugs

Nice Mussos lipless swimmer Sgt. those are on my todo list.

I too am using, since early last year, 2 heated plastic spinner boxes where I get it up over 100 with 2 small light bulbs. The Sys. 3 Clear Coat seems to like it that way a lot. I am only doing 6 plugs per box or 12 total every time I do it.

ok here is how I do it most times. This was showed to me by Mr. Manzi several years ago. Slip told me it was his idea that Dave copied form him so I don't know which was which and don't care. It works and makes it real easy and I know of a few comm. guys that do it his way now since I showed them where to get materials. Just want to let you know it's not my idea. I keep telling people I never had an original idea in my life but don't let me see it because I can plagiarize with the best of them.
Anyway back to the useful info.
I use hard plastic tubing. The OD is 1/4 inch and the ID holds a tail grommet very tight so the tail grommet won't slid around on you. You can use it in any combo you want. Wgt., plastic, wgt, plastic. 1 wgt then plastic. Pretty much any way you want so no dowels and gluing and re drilling. In the last pic you see some larger stuff. 3/8 OD for larger weighting . You then take the 1/4' stuff which happens to fit nice and perfect into the 3/8 stuff and then the tail grommet fits into the 1/4" stuff. You can see I have 100 foot rolls of the stuff, enough for 5 lifetimes of needles but the stuff is very cheap and that is how it is sold. It took some searching to get the right wall thickness but here is the place I got it. Just make sure you get the right wall thickness. If you need help just ask and if you want to try a little let me know and I can send you some as god knows i got plenty.

LDPE and HDPE Tubing. | U.S. Plastic Corp.

Excellent post Paul so much to learn so little time.

you can also buy the same thing in hard nylon [spacers] in different inside an outside dia...at the hardware stores in all those little side boxes...been useing them for years in rod building when I need more or less space between the spring that holds the different size thread spools......if you don't need a big coil that is.

Yes true but you probably have one of those old fashion hardware stores. None around me anymore with all the big stores. A big coil is only like 7 bucks and you can give some to your buddies.

sorry guys....looks like i missed a great time! my router was cooked when i got up this am and i am posting this from my wifes tiny iphone and it sucks! hope to be back on tuesday and i will see you all next sunday morn at 8!
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all your big reg.hardware stores like ace....servise starr....most lumber yards....carry the spacers....along with all the other little do -dad's nuts an bolts an things.