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04-01-2010, 10:54 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Vega cutting bit question
I'm starting to get a little tearout on my plug bodies that need extra sanding. Could my three month old vega midi duplicator bit be dulling already? Is is something else? I probably did about 100 or so bodies from various types of wood. Do you sharpen these things or just replace them?
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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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04-01-2010, 11:19 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Is is HSS or carbide? the stock HSS bit can be sharpend.. the carbide is replace once you use both sides...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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04-01-2010, 11:35 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Gotta be the HSS as it just looks like a sharpened steel cutting point. Do you send them to a special place or do them yourself?
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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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04-01-2010, 12:06 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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surprised it lasted that long if it's steel
sharpen it yourself
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04-01-2010, 12:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipknot
surprised it lasted that long if it's steel
sharpen it yourself
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Yea usually the hss only last 5 lures and its dull. I would get in touch with the Professor and get the carbide tool. |
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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04-01-2010, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: new bedford, Ma.
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the HSS one they give is basically just to give something.
P's holder and inserts are great. If you switch remember to look at the height as the HSS one they give you is a hair higher if I remember correctly.
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Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man.
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04-01-2010, 02:45 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by eskimo
P's holder and inserts are great.
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Great, now I have to beg him for something else... 
Maybe he'll just adopt 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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04-01-2010, 05:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
G reat, now I have to beg him for something else...
Maybe he'll just adopt me. |
All i can say better him than me  |
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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04-01-2010, 08:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Buxton, Maine
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Might not be just the bit. With all the humidity in the air the wood sucks it up like a sponge. More moisture content more and bigger tear-outs plus with some woods you'll get stringy-ness. Something I learned from my shop teacher back in high school a couple 2 or 3 yrs ago. LOL
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04-02-2010, 09:04 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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and you thought you were going to make cost effective fishing lures.
Species of wood, red cedar for example, lends itself to tear out more than others too. Like stated you can resharpen, stone, them but they don't last long. Give it a shot and if and when you get aggravated and give up I have what you need.
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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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04-02-2010, 09:50 AM
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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 ProfessorM
Give it a shot and if and when you get aggravated and give up I have what you need.
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Invoice 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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04-02-2010, 10:13 AM
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Certified Mass-hole
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Jackson, NJ but born and raised in Massachusetts.
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The Prof. makes some really pissa cutters.  |
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04-06-2010, 10:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 324
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Hey Professor, can I get a new cutter too? 
Seriously...I could use a couple. |
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