Well I was looking at some older posts from the archives and really liked the shape of this plug. I did the best I could do with the measurements I found here and did a couple of diagrams so I can play around. Figured I would post them here since everyone has helped me out with my stupid questions :smash:.
If anyone has anything to add to the diagrams just drop me a PM and I can make changes!
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h122/blackjackCB/BANANAPLUGONE.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h122/blackjackCB/BANANAPLUGTWO.jpg

Again thanks from the nube!!

Presto
http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq108/Quissett/banana.jpg

Is the hatching at B your wt position?

lead

Your diagrams are better than the original article, which has the hook position pictured wrong and lopsided "exact" profiles that will screw you up if you use them.

Your diagram is wrong in that it shows a tail hook position. The plug does not carry a tail hook (which would unbalance it and inhibit its action). The article makes clear it should just have a light screw eye with a flag bucktail.

The plug as you picture it, and as the article describes it, will come out weighing 4-4.5 oz. If you thin it some, taper the sides a bit more, and shorten the large weight so it is closer to an inch you can end up with a plug at about 3 oz.

The taper at the head and tail are important. The plug should float level with the water 1/2 way up these slopes (at least as a starting point). Add or subtract weight on either end to get it right.

Frech's epoxy hook hanger system is very strong provided you epoxy the eyes in using 2 ton epoxy (not 5 minute stuff) and you do it before you seal the plug.

Fish it with 1 foot tugs of your rod tip.

Here's the outline out of a cad file if you want to scale it and cut out for a pattern.

This will help, too.
Drill your holes before you bandsaw, the back hook hole at an angle. Measure the depth you want to drill off the side profile as in the first picture
Then check out this thread for some tricks on shaping the plug.
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/how-favorite-plug-forum-guides/28065-hand-carve-how.html

Oops, this should be the first picture

BANANA

3D BANANAAAAAAAA

Banana with a bite out of it :rotf2:

Maybe I bring a BUNCH of BANANAS to RISAA :devil2:

:banano::banano::banano::banano::banano::banano:

Maybe I bring a BUNCH of BANANAS to RISAA :devil2:

Don't forget to seal with banana oil. Very important ;)

Ray probably still hates me for that :rotf2:

Don't forget to seal with banana oil. Very important ;)

U sob..U got Bare bodies??????????:drool:

imagine those in plastic.............

I'm feeling ill...atleast put some built in sawdust on them:)

First G code conversion with some new software I got 2D. :happy: Working on this today to make this work in 3D halves :heybaby:

I'm goin BANANAS figuring this out little by little. This is a serious amount of work.

This is 3d toolpaths for 1/2 a banana.

tiss a wonderfull thing..u go to the head of the class....make a spare alum. mold for me....I feel a 2 to part resin coming on.



Where's that Prof.m hiding....

steve how about a plastic with wood fiber....ground sawdust....I know there is a commercial version of this on the market..betting it could be easily made..

instead of microballoons you throw some finely ground sawdust in there...use ya wife's food processor she'll have ya sack for you :hee:

Dang prof.m...he hears me thinking an runs:rotf2:..sawdust? all I gotta do is vac the shop...toxic waste my butt:)

stage one....nag numby for a plug
stage two...turn on the gps locator \\\i planted on p's car an drag him to the shop.
stage 3..vac shop
stage 4...get resin

nothin to it....sellem in bunches.

thought i smelled something cooking..
yep.... wife is baking loaves of Banana Bread..wit walnuts!

U pullin on my good leg:drool:...be r over.

Where's that Prof.m hiding....

building rocket sections and dealing with the plague. Got absolutely no desire to get involved with that plastic thing. I prefer wooden things.

But wood it be plastic if it was wood?

U pullin on my good leg:drool:...be r over.

if yer in Harwich tomorrow AM..swing by the paint counter..there

may... be a slice left after the first round of coffee.....but no gaurantees..that crew dives in hard

crud! I b going by there about 530 am...b stale by the return...double crud.

dang..yer up & out early..headin over the bridge?

just hi-annis....an a room with a veiw of the haba.blueberry muffins.tv.hopin for a redhead an good drugs,goinna have me high high time:uhuh:.

niiiiiiiiice








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good luck Steve. At least I won't have to hide my car at work for a week or 2.

aha!.. I know you won't read this till you get back...but best o luck...

is that what you bought that 2 foot length of 1/4 inch vynal tube for??
ya know..they got stuff there for that..... ya didn't hafta bring yer own...

;)

omfg!...now Im half man half beast...I blueberried out...them gals r great cept one...it was a he she....saw it at rehab 2 years ago taken mom there...had to be a redhead:yak5:

good luck Steve. At least I won't have to hide my car at work for a week or 2.
U safe for a month....rest up:)

Hows your banana plug hangin Steve

my front is bare a$$...bzzzzz...LMAO it tickled so much...even had the buzzie lauhin..is there a breeze in here:confused:burrrrrrrrrrr!

now it's decision time.. tough out the itch of the new stubble coming back in, or keep it mowed...always something...

ya gonna be scratching like a dog with fleas while that's growing back in....

well..at least ya don't need a length of beech to turn a new peg leg with...
rest up, and heal quick... has the boss figgered a way for ya to tackle tha "do" list while ya mending????

yet??

worked like a dog to get 97 per done...before...these pain pills r :hf1 great.

Honey get well soon

Do bananas get fleas?

Was thinkin of ya Steve

All I could keep thinking was shriveled banana

ever seen a purple banana...when I see the doc soon I gotta ask him ahhh! how cum:confused:

BANANA progress!

http://www.saltys.co/images/banana.jpg

sample rough cut. I finally did it.

http://www.saltys.co/images/bananacutrough.jpg

and finish :happy:

http://www.saltys.co/images/bananacutfinish.jpg

more tweaks and sizes to set but may be cutting some stock tomorrow.

Amazing, Scott, just amazing.

Field Tester!!

Field Tester!!

Me too!! :uhuh::uhuh:

I see WOOD banana
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Good show sb....hardware's a :bshake:,but a fun build if ya not in a rush...30 in primer/2 in color...glass eyes an your stick on's.

Wow wait til you guy see this. Left n right sides....finished. CS is gonna blow a raisin when he sees these. Can't post pic from shop but will upload a full movie later
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Banananaaaaaa

First one rough cut. Made some changes.....


http://www.saltys.co/images/bananaroughcut.jpg

RAW banana

http://www.saltys.co/images/bananaraw.jpg

Banana Quick Sand.


http://www.saltys.co/images/bananaquicksand.jpg

Very nice finish. Smooth as a baby's behind.

Maybe we give CS a GOLDEN BANANA :hee:

http://www.saltys.co/images/bananagolden.jpg

http://www.saltys.co/images/bananagolden2.jpg

http://www.saltys.co/images/bananagolden3.jpg

http://www.saltys.co/images/bananagolden4.jpg

http://www.saltys.co/images/bananagolden5.jpg

Steve take some nitro before you watch this :hee:

This was the first one. It took 6 minutes rough and finish/cut out. I think I can cut this in half with a bit of work on the keyboard.

YouTube - ‪BANANAAAA‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNt1yuaUK28&feature=player_embedded)

I don't want to show you up with posting pic's of mine,but I'll give ya top shavin's for coming up with what you just did....:want:...just picked up a second drawknife so I can go twice as fast now...look out:rotf2:

LOL don't cut your finger off old man :wave:

You would luv the new machine we got this week, 50 plus inch X table ,thru spindle coolant, 12,000 rpm, Haas.

You would luv the new machine we got this week, 50 plus inch X table ,thru spindle coolant, 12,000 rpm, Haas.

mill me out a nice pair of tits I can mount on my truck hood....nipples need to light too.:)

So this wicked wicked WICKED smahhhht engineer dood was in the shop today. He looked at the golden banana and saw a different way to manufacture it than I did. Instead of milling 2 sides and pocketing the middle.....mill it as one piece with the top down...then sand the top edge to a profile...then things like drilling the belly etc can be written into the file.

Then you'd just have to drill front to back and the rear weight side to side....

Stay tooned :hee:

Anyone ever tried to put a metal lip on the front of one of these? I'm thinking this profile would swim really wild?

If I was to do this would you post a picture here?

mill me out a nice pair of tits I can mount on my truck hood....nipples need to light too.:)

Bet your :bshake: I wood.

THIS is gonna be good lol

Bet your :bshake: I wood.
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