I was looking for some advise. I'm not looking to build any plugs but I would like to strip down all my old ones, sand, repaint, and replace all old hooks. I have a couple dozen old gibbs plugs that are in real rough shape. Where do I get started and what do I need? Any advise would be great. thanks

Use the search... it works great for any question you have......
but here is the short list :)
sand
seal
prime
paint
wire
seal
and a bunch of scuffing in between.............no problem

Just hit them with some spray paint and throw some new hooks on and fish the hell out of them...you don't want to go to all the trouble of sanding, priming and painting do you? :rolleyes:

I just puuled all my old hooks off. I think I'm gonna sand them down to get all the glitter off and start fresh. Can anyone help with what exactly I will need as far as spray paint, primer etc. Also how do I get the nice fade in color like my new plugs have. I'd rather spend the time to do it myself than have to buy new plugs so I'm looking forward to getting started. I also want to try different colors you can't buy. Thanks alot for your help. Also if there are any links you know about that would be helpful. I tried doing a search on this site and couldn't find anything.

Here's what I do

1. Cut off hooks and thru wire.
2. clean plug
3. soak in sealer.
4. apply light coat of epoxy
5. sand lightly
6. bin primer
7. paint.
8. epxoy.
9. rewire and rehook.

If you're gonna take off the old stuff it's a slow and painful process with sandpaper. Use a chemical stripper (outdoors if you love your family and your lungs/liver) to get to the wood (it's no less toxic than breathing sanding dust for HOURS) and then seal the wood (Val Oil, Boiled linseed oil, whatever you choose...) dry for 10 days MINIMUM to allow the VOC stench to go away as best as possible. Prime and paint as desired. Finally top seal with a good strong epoxy, if you want to add glitter mix it into the epoxy, use diamond dust XXX fine or some other fine glitter or you'll get curling of the flakes and it'll look like schnitzel. I use devcon 2-ton epoxy (the stuff in the twin-tube syringes from any dept store) and have great results.