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12-09-2005, 08:16 PM
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Primate
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Central Jersey
Posts: 106
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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).
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12-09-2005, 08:39 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Nice job. I fight with metal lathes everyday.  |
"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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12-10-2005, 08:17 PM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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pissa !!  |
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12-10-2005, 10:41 PM
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Tackle Junkie
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Scotts Valley , California
Posts: 278
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Beautiful work .
Some very nice 'wittlin' . 
Thanks for sharing . |
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12-11-2005, 10:18 AM
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Mongerman
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 121
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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
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12-11-2005, 03:13 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Beautiful work Jklett.  Do you rough it out with a dremel or start right off with the knife? |
" Choose Life "
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12-11-2005, 06:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North shore
Posts: 1,247
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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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12-11-2005, 10:11 PM
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Primate
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Central Jersey
Posts: 106
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Quote:
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Do you rough it out with a dremel or start right off with the knife?
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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?
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I cut them from 1/8" lexan. |
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12-23-2005, 08:39 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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[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.  |
" Choose Life "
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12-23-2005, 11:38 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
Posts: 2,290
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real nice! I like the blue colored one best - great shape.  |
low & slow 37
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