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Originally Posted by Tagger
Nice DJ ... what kind of wood is that ?... I've had some new thoughts on HO,ing darters ,, Some pieces may HO so the grain might go vertical thru the beak making a weak beak . (thanks Numby).. you know how beat up that beak gets .. just watch for that .. happens on the tops of pencil poppers too if the grain runs vertical thru the cup it gets (splitty) looking on top .. So I don't HO pencil poppers ,, I've got 1-1.5 ounces of lead in the arse .. don't matter ,, just run grain sideways on those .. Back to darters .. to me ,, if the wood HO's with the grain slicing up the beak ,, that piece of wood can not be a darter .. most pieces the grain goes right ..,  |
Crap, I have not really given the grain orientation any thought and I haven't fished wood darters before but at first glance this sounds backwards to me. When you guys are talking about the wood splitting, where does it split? I can understand the beak geeting beat up onthe bottom but which way do they split?
I know I've split some dannies when I cut the lip slot too narrow and I tried to force in a heavier lip, and the lip acted like a wedge and split it as the cut was horizontal to the grain. So now I make the lip slots go across the grain so that the grain lines go up&down and the lip crosses the grain lines at a right angle.