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Back to Hand Carved

I started out carving bomber copies, then fought with a metal lathe to spin classic style plugs, now I'm back to carving. I really like the look and action of the turned plugs, but I have to work on my setup some before I turn more. I was getting 1 good plug out of 5 or so peices of wood and that's too much waste for my budget. Anyways, I tried this shape that I got off a dutch(?) pike site. It's 5" long and white pine. I'm only doing one at a time so I can play with the weighting and stuff until I get what I'm after. Right off the bat it's pretty good. I didn't weight this one at all, but with the hooks and splits off an a-salt it snakes along nice and tight with a little roll. It floats too high though, so the next one will have a slug between the lip and the belly hook. For what it's worth, using a knife and carving this out was very enjoyable.

I hung a regular a-salt next to it for scale. By the way, the weight between the two are pretty much identical(no scale, just balance beam).

Nice job. I fight with metal lathes everyday.:doh:

Beautiful work .
Some very nice 'wittlin' . :jump1:
Thanks for sharing .

nice lookin plug. there is something sweet about witteling away with a sharp knife. i can almost picture what the bass that's gonna try and eat that plug is doing right now off the coast of NC. sometime next spring those two will get together. very nice

Beautiful work Jklett. :kewl: Do you rough it out with a dremel or start right off with the knife?

That's a beautiful shape. I bet that fw bass and pike would also clobber that guy.... Whose lips are you using, or are you cutting your own?

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Do you rough it out with a dremel or start right off with the knife?

I cut the shape with the bandsaw and started whittlin'. Once I got it to about where I wanted I handsanded the rest.

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Whose lips are you using, or are you cutting your own?

I cut them from 1/8" lexan.

[QUOTE=jklett]I cut the shape with the bandsaw and started whittlin'. Once I got it to about where I wanted I handsanded the rest.

Thanks JKlett, forgot to check back.:smash:

real nice! I like the blue colored one best - great shape.:buds: