Is this the Place?

[eastendlu]

Morning guys just cleared snow so i can open the door.Have over 20 inches with big drifts.My back is hurting just looking at it as i have a long driveway.

[Striperknight]

I 'm still looking for my car.

[Backbeach Jake]

Grapevine, about 5years old. It was 6" thick and straight. Quartered it and it immediately corkscrewed..

[eastendlu]

I have to go shovel the driveway now i will be back in a bit.Built a paint shaker last night i know Salty will get a good laugh out of it but the thing works like you won't believe.

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by eastendlu

Morning guys just cleared snow so i can open the door.Have over 20 inches with big drifts.My back is hurting just looking at it as i have a long driveway.

Don't you have a wife?

[Diggin Jiggin]

Good morning everyone... I'm jealous of what you guys already have going. I haven't gotten to work any plug stuff yet, its hard for me to get to it before the holidays but I have a few hours to play this afternoon. I've been meaning to experiment a bit with the musso swimmer shapes but I don't have anything to work from. Can someone post some basic length width dimensions ?

[Backbeach Jake]

Good morning!
I have the same problem, altho here I sit. But I guess we all need a little rest time. After Christmas, money and time will loosen up a bit.
I will spin some ornaments from the grape vine today. I think that the spiral grain will look nice.

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by Diggin Jiggin

Good morning everyone... I'm jealous of what you guys already have going. I haven't gotten to work any plug stuff yet, its hard for me to get to it before the holidays but I have a few hours to play this afternoon. I've been meaning to experiment a bit with the musso swimmer shapes but I don't have anything to work from. Can someone post some basic length width dimensions ?

Much about these has been posted previously. Here are some details on the 6" Musso pine I measured (but no longer have). If you are interested in the big swimmers pm me, or better yet come by Falmouth this week and I can show you what I know.

Here are the details on the pine jr I sent ******. The size of weight is in there.

The junior musso I measured was a pine.
it is 6 1/8" long
.85" at the nose
.5" at the tail
widest spot was 3" from the nose and measured 1.3" wide
the weight was also 3" from the nose and is 3/8" diameter and 3/4" height....drilled through
first hook is 1.25" from nose, second hook 4"
diameter 2" from either end is 1.2" (it is 1.11" at the first hook)
The lip slot is above center on the plug I saw. about .34" from the top of the plug to the slot.
The plug weighed 2.5oz, but I don't recall if this was rigged or not

I suspect the lower lip slot position that appears to be used on some plugs I've seen on line (I've never actually inspected one) was a later change and used primarily in surface swimmers (which I have not built in the Jr size).

The pine uses a high slot lefty 2 lip
The ss presumably uses the mid slot lip
I've not xrayed a maple jr....the maple sr carries a much smaller weight than the pine or ss. I think he just weighted them to float level and low.

[Diggin Jiggin]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Much about these has been posted previously. Here are some details on the 6" Musso pine I measured (but no longer have). If you are interested in the big swimmers pm me, or better yet come by Falmouth this week and I can show you what I know.

Here are the details on the pine jr I sent ******. The size of weight is in there.

The junior musso I measured was a pine.
it is 6 1/8" long
.85" at the nose
.5" at the tail
widest spot was 3" from the nose and measured 1.3" wide
the weight was also 3" from the nose and is 3/8" diameter and 3/4" height....drilled through
first hook is 1.25" from nose, second hook 4"
diameter 2" from either end is 1.2" (it is 1.11" at the first hook)
The lip slot is above center on the plug I saw. about .34" from the top of the plug to the slot.
The plug weighed 2.5oz, but I don't recall if this was rigged or not

I suspect the lower lip slot position that appears to be used on some plugs I've seen on line (I've never actually inspected one) was a later change and used primarily in surface swimmers (which I have not built in the Jr size).

The pine uses a high slot lefty 2 lip
The ss presumably uses the mid slot lip
I've not xrayed a maple jr....the maple sr carries a much smaller weight than the pine or ss. I think he just weighted them to float level and low.

Thanks George thats plenty to get me started. I'm not sure what I will do with the shape. I will have to try some normal ones that go by the specs, but I'm tossing around the idea of doing some lipless stuff like the nike uses. When I was picking up wood around thanksgiving I got some maple for darters and they did not have any 5/4 so I ended up with 6/4 and it started me thinking maybe I could try and make some heavy swimmers that go down a bit. I had a lot of luck with the darters last year but I don't make any swimmers that go deep. I think a lot of guys built conrads for this purpose last year, but I really like the shape of the musso.