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Originally Posted by scottw
..is the ho just getting you as close as possible to the most favorable orientation even if it is altered slightly through drilling and trimming?
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Yes ,,To my thinking exactly what you said ,.. HO just gives you an idea what your dealing with, before you start with that piece of wood. Like we all suspected, every piece is different, even out of the same stick .. Some pieces "the force" is weak ,, may not matter,,some pieces "the force" is very strong. I wouldn't want that on the side of an unweighted darter. At plugfest a few years ago,I brought some round blanks i had totally sealed and a pan of water. I was accused of weighting blanks by a couple of guys to make them flip the way they were.. Probably best just to round out,seal and test a few blanks to see how much it matters to you . It matters most on big wood .Nikes ,unweighted or lightly weighted swimmers,, unweighted darters.. I had a bottle plug I had to hang a vmc 5/0 off the bottom to keep it from flipping ,, so probably bottles too .. havn't gotten there yet ..