Bye bye BLO....

[EricW]

I've tried tung oil, and had good results with it. I saw it on that woodworks show on DIY. The guy there (great woodworker btw) put on everything for a real nice finish. I got some in wal mart when they were doing a remodel for 1.00 a can. I also liked the way it dried.
I am going to try to make some small swimming baits for freshwater this year and was going to try that. Sealed a bunch of topwater stuff with it and no problems so far. I have smaller cans with a pop top. I put it in a good sealing glass jar. Still did get some drying on the top layer, but was able to keep the stuff in the original can in good shape.

[Tagger]

Joe you'll find your plugs are much tougher if they are hard underneath the paint and clear coat .. I'm using death in a can ... cpes.. good stuff ,,very toxic .. what eles is new ..

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally Posted by Tagger

Joe you'll find your plugs are much tougher if they are hard underneath the paint and clear coat .. I'm using death in a can ... cpes.. good stuff ,,very toxic .. what eles is new ..

Gives ya a nice glow...

[numbskull]

OK.....here is the straight dope from an excellent book by Bob Flexner called "Understanding Wood Finishing".

Linseed oil comes from flax seed, but dries too slowly to be useful.
Boiled Linseed oil is made by adding metallic driers to speed drying (they used to heat the oil to dissolve them hence the "boiled" name). BLO penetrates deeply because it dries so slowly but has poor water resistance.

Tung oil comes from Tung trees in China. It is used in many high end paints and varnishes because it is more water resistant than BLO, but only after 5-6 coats used by itself. It is gummy when thick (dries soft like BLO)

Varnish, is an oil to which resin (polyurethane is a resin) has been added then heated. It dries much faster than straight oils. It doesn't penetrate as deeply because of it's shorter drying time, but is more water resistant and dries "harder".

CPES is a volatile thin form of epoxy that was developed to kill plug builders in Brockton and keep them from flooding the market with penis replica plugs.

Hope that straightens things out a bit.

[go4broke44]

Originally Posted by numbskull

CPES is a volatile thin form of epoxy that was developed to kill plug builders in Brockton and keep them from flooding the market with penis replica plugs.

[Raven]

of wooden ships

and wooden Gutters on houses
...the installers would fill the gutters
with Linseed oil to water proof them
and have the drain all stuffed up

But...
I like tung oil for gun stocks too..
used to apply it with my thumb
and you can do many coats too.

[mfm22]

I just sealed a couple of batches using Polyurethane /turpentine .
About 60/40 . I soaked no more than 5 minutes ,hung out to dry .
Results seem good . dried faster than blo [if that stuff ever dries?] 2days felt good to go .
I've been giving plugs a light sanding before priming . The poly seemed like it would prevent good adhesion. After a light sanding priming went well .. Paint to follow

[Tagger]

Originally Posted by numbskull

CPES is a volatile thin form of epoxy that was developed to kill plug builders in Brockton and keep them from flooding the market with penis replica plugs.

This Valentines Day I'll be giving out the evasive vagina plug . One has your name on it .. No strings attached ..

[GattaFish]

Originally Posted by Tagger

This Valentines Day I'll be giving out the evasive vagina plug . One has your name on it .. No strings attached ..

[Diggin Jiggin]

I've been using helmsmans spar varnish for a while and I like the results but now that I am working on maple swimmers I was worried about weight gain from the 1 hour soak I usually do.

I just took the big maple donny's I was working on and took a rag and wiped the exterior down with the varnish. In a day or two once they are dried I'll dunk em to get the insides sealed. I'm hoping that doing the outside first will cut down on how much gets soaked up when I dunk them.

[Karl F]

Originally Posted by Tagger

This Valentines Day I'll be giving out the evasive vagina plug . One has your name on it .. No strings attached ..

Wow.. I have heard they are very expensive, and tricky...don't always give you the desired action, demands constant change of colors on the bucktail and hardware, wants bronze at times, nickel or SS at others, and you can't use them for 5 days or so out of every month, tempermental too, I have been told if they find out you use another lure, they will never let you use them again.....

[Tagger]

I was trying to hold off until plugfest but I've been working on a scratch and sniff fishing lure .. patend pending ..