So we all have preferences when it comes to the eyes on our plugs! Beveled sockets, straight sockets, flush, recessed, holographic, plastic/glass, 1/4", 3/8", 5/8", what have you......how do you like the eyes on your plugs??:eyes:

that's hard to say because underwater they will look different

than in bright or full light... conditions.... and it would vary of course from a diver to a top water plug....

the gold smaller eye looks realistic but the larger eyes seem more enticing. tough call BF

You are missing the intent of the thread? I want to know what eyes and techniques you guys like on your plugs? I only used my pictures as an example! Lets see what you like and why!

I've been liking the yellow iris/black pupil painted eye lately, Numby does nice ones. You can control " emotion". Express fear, look up look down, look back. I just think they're cool.

Yeah, the painted ones are the most fun, but I've messed up more plugs in more ways trying to put eyes on them than during any other step in the building process.

Some styles of plugs look wrong without eyes, on others the eyes seem a distraction to me.

I bounce around from one method to the next as far as eyes.It is whatever strikes me at the moment as like you pointed out Larry so many ways to do them.One thing about hobby building it only has to make me happy.:uhuh:

I like the 3D clear plastic (BM style) painted gold or pearl white in back in a beveled socket.

Also love the vintage black and yellow cirlce eyes used by Gibbs, Musso and Pichney. Got to figure out how to make some.

Them new ones with the non-round pupils are cheese.:uhuh:

I don't like any eye
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I like the 3-D holographic,and am just starting to tinker with the hard plastic eyes that you cut the posts off.

Danny style, 40's , most bottles,pencils and darteres dont get eyes, I like 'em old school and blind...

the rest I like a slightly recessed eye, I've found that glueing them in place rather than just sticking them on eliminates bubbles when you epoxy the plug..reason being, the trapped air behind the eye socket expands as the plug in my heated spinner revolves...

for colors and sizes.... 1/4 on small hand carves and needles.. 5/16 on most otheres, exception being squid plugs.. I use 3/8 on those....

Most black plugs get glow in the dark or holowgrafic eyes.... white plugs get a little Alice Cooper treatment and red eyes... Mac and tiger patterns get yellow eyes.... and sometimes i get lazy and use what's lying on the bench from the last plug...

Danny style, 40's , most bottles,pencils and darteres dont get eyes, I like 'em old school and blind...





Ditto, 'cept I'll put eyes on the rear of pencils at times.

been Heller Keller, blind melon chittlin-ing a lot more nowadays as far as swimmers go. As said before what ever strikes me at the moment

I've been liking the look of the plastic eyes with the posts lately.

Don't put eyes on my Pencils...but everything else usually get them

What eastendlu said:uhuh:

I bounce around from one method to the next as far as eyes.It is whatever strikes me at the moment as like you pointed out Larry so many ways to do them.One thing about hobby building it only has to make me happy, at that time.
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