As I sit in the man cave looking at 5 gallon buckets full of old wooden plugs, mostly gibbs. And with all the nostalgic plug talk lately, I 'd like to restore some of them.
So is it ok too use a certain type of paint remover over another ?
Or do I have to hand sand, tried that already takes forever.
A plug building pal of mine will re paint if I strip them down to bare wood.
:confused:

Just fish em'! Too much work to refinish them!:fishin:

Just sand off the loose paint and spray a coat of primer over them.....then Paint.

That should be fine

Old plugs like antique furniture retain
value if unfinished and unpainted. One
of best wooden plugs I ever fished had
no paint on it and developed a kind of
fuzz that would seemed to attract SB
over new plugs. Beats me why??

Try a heat gun it might take the paint off with little sanding,,, Personally,,, I would pick the ones you want to keep and fish the rest...

if they 're not rare or collectable why not restore them? you'll learn in the process....i've got some beat up lc coopers that i plan on refinisning ah style for the heck of it over the winter.

I only have a few plugs behind glass.
Anything I redo is to fish with.
The plugs have a fair amount of chips and dings, right down to bare wood.
I have a pile of fluorescent orange pencils, I would't mind making a more natural color. For example.

Bobby, look through/search the plug building forum.