Plug building...

[eastendlu]

Originally Posted by Flaptail

Sitting in Stan Gibbs basement when I was a youngster and watching him might have had something to do with it, maybe.

Lucky bastage!!!

When i was a kid i use to carve crude lures and fish a freshwater pond.Did not really take it up seriously until 2002/2003 when i got tired of losing and paying for pencil poppers.One day i snapped and said wth i'll make my own.Had a woodshop in my garage already and it gave me an excuse to get a wood lathe and an airbrush.my least favorite thing is epoxying.Favorite thing is painting and testing and the smile on someones face when they tell me they did well on one of my plugs.

[Tagger]

I made some stuff earlier .. pre internet.. broom stick popper ... dowel teaser.. Cut up alot of silver ware ,, (make shift hopkins)... I don't count that.. I was a plug forum lurker about 2 yrs. over sol ..I think I started (for real) 5 maybe 6 yrs. ago .. When ever Newell Guy did .. We made a bunch of crap and thought it was great . Kind of a comedy of errors..Not too much sharing info in those days .. Capesams took Newell guy and me under his wing . We went over his house and he showed us amazing plug skillz. I gotta give Capesams props for my early plug devlopement .. I was taught something by just about everyone on the boards and I'm still being schooled.. I attended plug college and had again Capesams,,Flap,,Numbskull,,Vineyard Blues,, Carl Johanson and Stan Kuzia as professors,,, Not too shabby .. Lately its been Bernzy,,G2,,Lu and always Numby .. I guess what I enjoy the most is fishing the plugs ,, tweaking,, and the other people who build .. I hate buying bandsaw blades ..