sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet all of them

Don those are Chris's and they are beautiful. Aren't we getting fancy, very professional work. Please sir may I have one.:kewl:

Don its easy to tell us apart, I'm the good looking one:hihi:


George this one is for you

Ouch - my mistake! :hs: Still beautiful work. Gotta show & tell at plugfest if there is a lathe there.:kewl:

I'll second that! I know from firsthand experience how difficult it is to get those right, quite an accomplishment, Chris.

Thanks guys, I would be glad to show but I figured it out with a specific lathe & attachments. To borrow a movie line "Abbynormal".
I have been trying to figuring how to with a "Normal" lathe but keep seeing potential probs so I dont know what to say. I can give the basic principle then maybe you can see something I dont.
One thing is for sure is there too much to it to explain here:wall:

'07 COLORS....missing are blurple, 1/2 yellow-1/2 white, and black.

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Holy Sheeeeeeeiiit! :beat:

hey png, can you turn that into a 442 clone for me please!:jump1:

wow don, a few of those sure do take me back to my largemouth fishing days. man, they look good.

Hey I handed you a Hemi on a plate and you dropped it





No clone for you 2 week:grins:

you know, when you want something done, i guess ya gotta do it yourself. i asked mom dukes to find the bank that owned that house and i got lost in the owning your own business shuffle.that's o.k. i guess, she's in tampa now working on a few deals for us. if they go through, i'll buy you a hemi!! that , i believe, was a 392 marine hemi. doh!!:crying: :crying: :crying:

Show off. Nice job as always

Nice color lineup Don....the line starts to my right!:jump:

Time to hit the bottle.

that's sweet george!

Getting that lip right is hard. It looks like you nailed it do you use a jig or you eyeing it up as you go?

100 Bottle plugs on the wall 100 bottle plugs on the wall
take one down pass it around 99 bottle plugs on the wall :jump1:

:soon:

:kewl: Very nice looking stuff guys.............

Nice looking bottle George one of the best producers at montauk .:drool: :drool:

Do it by eye. It is not too difficult. Lay out the rearward shape with a template, waste out most of it on a band saw, push it into the right sized sanding drum until even with the "brow" (you don't want to undercut the brow too much), then roll it and sand back to the layout lines, touch it up with a file. The difficult part is weighting them. This one has a tail weight and chin weight, ala Mr Pogey, but it doesn't swim as well as a Gibbs except at one specific retrieve speed. The next batch, waiting for paint, are weighted like the Gibbs, 1/4" slugs along the thru wire, all the way to the front hook hole. I'd love to get my hands on a Musso to see how he did it, and I think Pinchney also made one, though there's probably no chance of ever finding one of those.

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George ... ever have a Hahn bottle ? I hear raves about his big one ... 3 ounce ,,I think .

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I handcarved one tonight ... not too bad ...Are they weighted .. I have a few originals .. either they did a good job hiding the weights or there aren't any .

If you have a few then howsbout a little BandsawEddy action:shocked: I was thinkin of the askin the good doc if he could flash away on one

I dont think they are weighted. Mine are, either b4 or after the hook hole

I'd bandsaw in a heartbeat but the ones I have are unfished mint .. can't bring myself to do it ... Numby ? help !!!!!