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12-11-2011, 10:53 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Pocasset, MA
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Bill and a few in process and a few complete
Saw may Dad again this weekend. He finished 2 more 9" needles (my best catcher in 2011 on MV and in RI). Also a 6 inch swimmer ( a tribute to my favorite Afterhours Swimmer) which has been my best swimmer and hopefully Bill's will do the trick as well. See another hand turned copy in process next to the original. Also he finished a nice medium sized Danny. Finally after his 91st Birthday a few weeks ago he has another 9 inch needle in lathe and a swimmer and medium Danny wired and ready for painting. We are looking forward to Plugfest March 3rd.
Bill
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Hardcore from shore
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12-12-2011, 06:26 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Lexington, MA
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Nice needle and swimmers Bill. Is that an old Boice Crane or Walker turner lathe lathe... looks like a sweet oldie lathe...
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 Blond Terror
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12-12-2011, 07:35 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,749
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Too many things to list... darters in 3 sizes ready for paint... lefty's 6'.. ready for paint... 3 piece eel plugs in R&D stage... flaptails ( not completed from last season ) in need of primer.. some more laminated plugs.. including a 5" darter..lot's of fun.. also bowls...pens and wine stoppers as gifts.. real busy..
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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12-12-2011, 02:23 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hardcore from shore
Saw may Dad again this weekend. He finished 2 more 9" needles (my best catcher in 2011 on MV and in RI). Also a 6 inch swimmer ( a tribute to my favorite Afterhours Swimmer) which has been my best swimmer and hopefully Bill's will do the trick as well. See another hand turned copy in process next to the original. Also he finished a nice medium sized Danny. Finally after his 91st Birthday a few weeks ago he has another 9 inch needle in lathe and a swimmer and medium Danny wired and ready for painting. We are looking forward to Plugfest March 3rd.
Bill
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This is way cool. |
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12-14-2011, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Melrose, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hardcore from shore
Saw may Dad again this weekend. He finished 2 more 9" needles (my best catcher in 2011 on MV and in RI). Also a 6 inch swimmer ( a tribute to my favorite Afterhours Swimmer) which has been my best swimmer and hopefully Bill's will do the trick as well. See another hand turned copy in process next to the original. Also he finished a nice medium sized Danny. Finally after his 91st Birthday a few weeks ago he has another 9 inch needle in lathe and a swimmer and medium Danny wired and ready for painting. We are looking forward to Plugfest March 3rd.
Bill
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Originally Posted by numbskull
This is way cool.
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I agree. I can only hope I am still plug building and fishing when I am 91. 
I regret I have not posted anything for a while but I have been building plugs lately. For the most part I am working on some of the same stuff that worked for me last season, (sliders, peanuts, needles etc) incorporating some new building tips and ideas I picked up during fishing season. Hopefully always improving. I will post a
couple pics of the latest batch when I finish with top coats. For now here are a couple pics of a few from my last batch. Some of these will be going to Plugfest.
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12-14-2011, 08:16 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,544
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Knocked out a bunch of these an hour ago. Some more trees and ornaments tomorrow then some painting
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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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12-14-2011, 08:59 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Lexington, MA
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Originally Posted by nightfighter
Knocked out a bunch of these an hour ago. Some more trees and ornaments tomorrow then some painting
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Nice looking light... will you paint them diff colors or all the same... post a pic of one of your turned trees.... |
Blond Terror
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12-14-2011, 10:11 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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Originally Posted by blondterror
Nice looking light... will you paint them diff colors or all the same... post a pic of one of your turned trees....
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Depends on what I find for paint on hand.....Might try one marbelized. Need to clean up the tree tops where I come just short of parting completely. |
“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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12-15-2011, 06:34 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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hardcore from the shore: Man, those pics brought back memories of my grandfather in his woodshop. He retired as a mason and began making furniture in his garage, must have 15 pieces in my house! thanks for posting.
Nightfighter, cool idea on the christmas tree and lights, gonna have to try that!
Muskyslayer96, My friend gave me one of those little rotessiri ovens little bigger than a breadbox. I plan to try to convert it to a spinner or just salvage the engine to build one. Thanks for posting, gives me some ideas. Should be a good project this winter and I am getting sick of spinning those plugs by hand for hours.
Last winter was my 1st year building plugs, I learned a ton from all of you and from trial and error (mostly error, HA!). This fall I ran into a big run of needlefish, but had not made anything to match. I picked up a store bought needle and superstrike 1 3/4 oz. I hope to spend time trying to make some imatations that sink or suspend with weighting right and proper hook placement. The needlefish I encountered were about 7" long and fairly skinny, so curious how I will get the through hole lined up well and have enough space to place weights. Should be interesting.
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12-14-2011, 09:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
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Originally Posted by nightfighter
Knocked out a bunch of these an hour ago. Some more trees and ornaments tomorrow then some painting
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Very nice. saw the video. Now you gave us all another way to stay out of the wife's way. LOL
I'll be doing remakes of capt. andy slim jointed eelies. 9". proto in primer. testing over weekend. |
Billy D.
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12-18-2011, 01:05 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hardcore from shore
Saw may Dad again this weekend. He finished 2 more 9" needles (my best catcher in 2011 on MV and in RI). Also a 6 inch swimmer ( a tribute to my favorite Afterhours Swimmer) which has been my best swimmer and hopefully Bill's will do the trick as well. See another hand turned copy in process next to the original. Also he finished a nice medium sized Danny. Finally after his 91st Birthday a few weeks ago he has another 9 inch needle in lathe and a swimmer and medium Danny wired and ready for painting. We are looking forward to Plugfest March 3rd.
Bill
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Wicked Kool Times 2
Happy Holidays EveryOne
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12-23-2011, 12:12 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
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9.5" Jointed Eely 2.5oz.AYC 3 weight ports. 2front half 1 rear section. Swims amazingly seductive. Subsurface 2-3'. Hope to make a baker's dozen!
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Billy D.
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12-27-2011, 01:53 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pbadad
9.5" Jointed Eely 2.5oz.AYC 3 weight ports. 2front half 1 rear section. Swims amazingly seductive. Subsurface 2-3'. Hope to make a baker's dozen!
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I do well with eel like productions like that... love the color! |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
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12-27-2011, 03:37 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Northern Illinois
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After somewhat mastering Nikes of various sizes, I had this crazy idea of building a soft-tail Nike for musky fishing..........off to the "Lureboratory" I go.......
CheapTrix
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12-27-2011, 09:02 PM
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Covered in Sawdust
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 358
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My wife and I bought a house last year so I wasn't able to do any plugs due to lack of space (wasn't allowed in the basement). I bought a nice 10x14 shed and ran electric from the house. I just quartered a bunch of WRC 4x4's for 3 different pencils sizes.
I'm really looking forward to building again. I got some great advice and help from a couple of the members in the past so I'm happy to be back at it to share some of my stuff.
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