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12-18-2009, 12:44 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Getting started-need suggestions
Ok, I don't want any feathers ruffled, shortness of breath, or heart palpitations...yours truly needs a new hobby as the rodbuilding stuff is old hat for me now. 
I'm looking into building some plugs and need some newbie plug building suggestions in terms of tools,wood, cash outlay, and the like...let's hear it...
I figure if Numbskull can do it, anyone can...
Last edited by Back Beach; 12-18-2009 at 01:05 PM..
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It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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12-18-2009, 12:57 PM
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time to go
Join Date: Oct 2007
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12-18-2009, 01:18 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Buy my Shopsmith.... lathe, drillpress, tablesaw, disk or drum sander, horizontal borer, all in one tool. Plus five turning knives AND a jointer attachment. In Classifieds.
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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12-18-2009, 01:17 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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so I am building those pencils for nutin?
You are welcome to stop over any weekday you have some time and we can go thru the whole kit and caboodle as to what you need and what you don't need in my eyes. Everyone is different but I can show you what you will need to get started and the prices you are going to pay for pretty much everything. I can also get an idea as to what you hope to accomplish.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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12-18-2009, 02:02 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
so I am building those pencils for nutin?
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No way!! 
Given my typical learning curve and lack of mechanical skill I'll likely be retired by the time I figure all this stuff out. Perhaps by then I can actually produce something that would hoodwink a bluefish. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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12-18-2009, 02:34 PM
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OLDGOAT7205963
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: CAPE
Posts: 693
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Mike I'm not a plug builder BUT when the kids where little I could make needles out of bank giveaway pens, tooth brush handles,hair brush handles, and silverware knives. I,m not allowed to look to hard at anything in the kitchen
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12-18-2009, 03:34 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Damn! I knew it was cold out today, but I didn't expect hell to freeze over!
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12-18-2009, 03:45 PM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
Posts: 1,132
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Start off with kits to see if you like it. There are a lot of good
quality kits on the market. If you like the hobby then you buy the tools,wood ...etc.
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12-18-2009, 04:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Damn! I knew it was cold out today, but I didn't expect hell to freeze over!
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It is kind of nipleee out there. |
Originally Posted by Flaptail
"Throw plugs like we do that will cause them to suffer humility. Pogies make any fisherman look good when bass are around. Bait is easy."
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12-18-2009, 03:44 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD GOAT
Mike I'm not a plug builder BUT when the kids where little I could make needles out of bank giveaway pens, tooth brush handles,hair brush handles, and silverware knives. I,m not allowed to look to hard at anything in the kitchen
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I still have one of those bic pen needles too. I used to brag to people about my friend(you) who caught fish on a toothbrush, in fact I still do. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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12-18-2009, 03:50 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pembroke,MA
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Paul, any chance I can crash the party, I would like to see some of the ideas you have come up with.
Mike, same offer Paul made, though I'm sure his toys are much better than mine.
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12-18-2009, 04:20 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by angler229
Paul, any chance I can crash the party, I would like to see some of the ideas you have come up with.
Mike, same offer Paul made, though I'm sure his toys are much better than mine.
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Thanks Danno!
Sounds like next week I'm going on a main streets and back roads plug shop tour...kind of Peter Meheegan-like. I did get one look at PM's shop, which kind of lit the fire for me. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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12-18-2009, 04:41 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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I'll give you some blanks to screw around with if you want. Dan your welcome anytime, anyone is welcome, the only problem is I only brainstorm, turn, paint, assemble, swear, complain, in my cellar. I do most everything else at work so I don't have a lot of tools here so you are not going to see a lot of plug making fixturing. I can still tell Mike what he is going to need and the cost of it all.
still waiting to see that first plug john. I have heard a lot about it
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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12-18-2009, 05:53 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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You can come down the street once you are done over at Professor's shop and maybe I can show you some tips. Bring Paul and he can borrow my Stetzko Sr. needle. I don't know why you would want to enter this black hole of plug making, but it can't be all that bad even Numbskull does it. Start with something easy like poppers or needles. And come to plugfest.
one thing though, we don't make plugs out of flesh and blood, we use wood
Last edited by Slipknot; 12-18-2009 at 05:58 PM..
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12-18-2009, 08:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
Posts: 1,727
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There'was a Shopsmith on craigslist up here in Maine a few days ago under tools for $50, There's also a jet lathe there more recent and another shopsmith for around $500. place to look. The jet was used by a pen maker. good way to save some pennys. The jet was $225
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12-21-2009, 09:08 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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I am pretty sure the PVC he is using is different from the PVC I machine. Next time you stop by G. I can show you sold stuff up to 12" dia. The stuff he is using is material that is much more porous than the the pure stuff i use and the stuff they extrude into plumbing products. I could be wrong but I have made plugs out of the stock we use and it weighs a ton. You can buy it any dia. you want and there is no need for gluing pieces together but the weight would be a major issue. I think he is using that stuff they make trim boards out of for the housing industry and it is a much lighter product. Probably the percentage of PVC in it is lower or they inject air into it when they make it or use just a certain percentage of PVC along with something else to keep the cost down maybe. I am not sure but this is me speculating. I just feel it is not the same product. But I could be wrong.  That is why they probably don't just use PVC cement. I also can't see paint sticking to the product I use either very well and his sticks good which also makes me think they are not the same animal.
Last edited by ProfessorM; 12-21-2009 at 09:16 AM..
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