[QUOTE=piemma;751388]
LOL, Legend. :biglaugh:

Nice meeting you also.

Heading over to Slips today to pour some belly weights and to try out the new mold I finished on Friday. It only took me about a year to finish after taking another year to finally agree to do it and Bruce was very patient. It is a tail wgt. mold similar to the one Stan Kuzia made many years ago. It will allow a decent amount of weight to be exposed at the tail to enable the plug to fly longer and straighter. Your pencil will taper down to blend into the end part and you will tie your wire right up against the lead. Its a canal thing.:uhuh:

That's pretty cool, let's the lead drag the wood through the air. They don't call them sharpies for nothing.

yup Stan was as sharp as any of them.

soooo....when can I borrow it?...did u know lead spins very nicely on the lathe....let the shavings fall.no dust too.

when ever you want barring any set backs today. Several sizes so i am sure you will find one that will fit your needs.

when did u give the nickname of' "set back" to your wife??

Got Lead?

hot lead, ya

thanks Paul, outstanding job on the mold:uhuh:

Awesome mold, can I get in line for borrowies?

Where's the line here .. PNG the end ? ....

no line-no borrowies
the mold is trademarked PM
2 years in development and waiting and building makes it very very valuable, cost may have exceeded into the thousands. therefore after a period of 2 years time from today, the line starting with grapenuts, all borrowers must leave 1st born as a deposit in good faith, and return promptly with plenty of product or trade equivalent value pluggage.

sorry , thems the rules guys

no problem making spares.....got about 1500lbs o clean lead give or take a few hundred lbs....after making a few hundred 4oz. canal jigs.

Hey !!!! ,, The pencil sharpener worked great ,,.:uhuh:

LOL. pretty down and dirty mold, nutin fancy , but it works. Yes any of you nit wits can borrow it. That is why I made it. You'll just have to pour me a few. That way I won't have to pour any myself.

when it makes it to Ct. (HA!) let me know, awesome work on that!

so how many lbs do u require for ransom? b happy to load u up.

Very cunning, I like the way you think

So shall we do this thread again next winter??? Fish coming soon!:uhuh:

Is this still the place ? ... common spring .. spring ahead .. we're getting there .. Yes !!!! to next year ..

This has been like advanced plug school for me. I would like to go next winter, too.:uhuh:It's been awesome!

Turned, drilled, slotted and sealed some slopehead dannys and a cowboy proto yesterday.
They're gonna be painted in a mackerel pattern that I've come up with using a lace mask. I'll post when done.

Morning all :smash: Fighting a cold but a friend just stoped over and dropped two old the rarest mussos that i know of :drool::drool: George and Paul you are going to love these.

Absoluetely do it next year. Many responses from the start up to Plugfest. Doing my last "want list" 3oz wadd needles. Guys keep in touch and have a good fishing season.

What a tease.......

I will try to take a pic later when i go into the shop.

Late as usual. Sent you my addy Luis. I forgot to set clock ahead last nite and walked into church this morning only to have mass end 1 minute later. No wonder people were looking at my family stranger than usual.:smash:
Found a gallon of helmsman spar yesterday that wasn't VOC compliant, dust covered on shelf. Had lots of other places I called say no. Will be looking this upcoming week. You can get the quarts that way but the gal.'s are all compliant. I guess I could just buy 4 quarts but it won't be cheap that way. Epoxy sealed a bunch of pine plugs last nite. Hard as a rock this morning. I will probably start using this method more and more. Luckly CS gave me a bunch of clear coat last year so I am using it for that as it is kind of old but perfect for sealing.
Cheerio.

Speaking of clear coats
 

Here is one of my schoolie-ish clones I call The Muskrat (the ones rigged with the Lefty 2 that dive deep I call The Weasel). With a Lefty1 bent down and the lip bent down it will swim no deeper than 3-4" in calm water. It pushes a wake much like a tuna does when swimming just under the surface, and at super slow speed it swims 'in' the surface, as opposed to on top of it or below it as a danny does. I have high hopes for it.

Nice Jon. Is that the same as the white one I have?

Almost
 

Only difference is yours has the Lefty 2 that will make it dive.

FISH IT!

Outstanding . I have high hopes at a certain dam and pipe.