What's Cookin' ?

[Ryan560]

I've been trying to finish up my dupe the last week or so, haven't turned anything new in a while. It's finished for the most part just have to add the handles. Thanks to everyone that helped me out, professor m and mojo7 and I borrowed some ideas from fishbumwannabe. The whole project cost me $5 and a few plugs.

[Ryan560]

One last picture, I made it so you can adjust the follower without removing the base of the sled

[Hookset]

Originally Posted by Ryan560

One last picture, I made it so you can adjust the follower without removing the base of the sled

Nice work, looks great!

[eskimo]

Originally Posted by Ryan560

I've been trying to finish up my dupe the last week or so, haven't turned anything new in a while. It's finished for the most part just have to add the handles. Thanks to everyone that helped me out, professor m and mojo7 and I borrowed some ideas from fishbumwannabe. The whole project cost me $5 and a few plugs.

I miss my homemade duplicator at times. Looking back now it was more work but much more enjoyable then a Vega.

[the greek]

Finished some lipless swimmers I was doing for the challenge swap. Here's one next to Numbskull's version which I believe is a Musso copy. Top one I screwed up the face on so I threw a lip on it Jinx style.

[numbskull]

Very cool, Ted. How do they swim? Do they stay on the surface or dive subsurface?

I also notice the difference in the line tie location. The musso clones seemed to be set too low which created too much roll. Bending the eye up helps (and I noticed he did this on the ones he fished that are now on his display board). Musso's smallest version ended up with a midline eye so he must have been thinking like you. I like your sleeker shape a lot, the clones I built seem unnaturally short and fat in the water.

Gets me all excited to experiment some more.

[the greek]

They are subsurface. They will not stay on top. They will hang around just under the surface with a slow retrieve. They are belly weighted, not heavily and no tail weight. The line tie is on center and right below where the two cuts meet 30 degrees on the lower 60 degrees on the upper. I also have a small shallow scoop on the face that is only below the line tie. Don't know if it helps or not as I have not done these without it. I was real excited when I swam the first one. I liked it so much I didn't want to mess with it by trying to tailweight it. here is a pic of the face.