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02-15-2010, 10:40 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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easiest= epoxy...go figure
worst= drilling belly holes that align...I don't have a jig for it yet. My paint is getting better as I'm mostly doing two colors with rattle cans.
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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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02-15-2010, 11:30 AM
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shut up and fish
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,384
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most skills have gotten better with time. though less than a year under my belt and having mastered almost nothing, i think i have worked hard to learn most of the the basics of the craft, and after all, i build my plugs to fish. i got tired of handing over what i felt was too much money for a piece of wood that could be gone in a second. that said, i still want my craftsmenship to be admirable.... the big pain in the butt so far, makes me wanna sell it, is the air brush. i think i know my mistakes so we will see. but honestly, i don't aspire to be a picasso, i think rattle cans are all you need if you want to catch fish, but the fumes suck!....then epoxy (etex). i just epoxied 12 plugs so i'll see if i learned anything from my last disaster batch (where i didn't thoroughly clean them before application).
.... long winded answer sorry, airbrush!
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02-15-2010, 03:16 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
easiest= epoxy...go figure
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I want to stick awls in my eyes when I read that ...  |
Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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02-15-2010, 03:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Alloway NJ
Posts: 117
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Lack of taking the time to make jigs for various steps. Also everthing Tagger wrote in his first post here is pretty much right on the money for me.  |
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02-15-2010, 04:30 PM
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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 Tagger
I want to stick awls in my eyes when I read that ... |
Its simply because I build rods and found many commonalities between finishing a rod and a plug....not to say I haven't %$%$%$%$ed up the epoxy on a few plugs cause I have, but epoxy is the only part of the entire plug building process I didn't have to ask you guys here 1000 questions about.... 
You may, of course, look at one of my finished plugs and determine the epoxy job sucks, but for me it was the least confusing part of the process.... |
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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02-15-2010, 05:23 PM
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Big E
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Seabrook, NH
Posts: 681
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So far, it's building the shop.
Should be done  |
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02-15-2010, 07:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pembroke,MA
Posts: 784
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My biggest problem is consistency. I feel like I can do everything well, but putting it all together on any individual plug can be a problematic. A plug that is has perfect woodworking, and great paint, the epoxy will suck etc... I think the biggest answer to fix this is patience and pacing myself, the more i rush the more mistakes I see.
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02-15-2010, 07:40 PM
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shut up and fish
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,384
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Quote:
Originally Posted by angler229
My biggest problem is consistency. I feel like I can do everything well, but putting it all together on any individual plug can be a problematic. A plug that is has perfect woodworking, and great paint, the epoxy will suck etc... I think the biggest answer to fix this is patience and pacing myself, the more i rush the more mistakes I see.
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truer words were never spoken!!!!! |
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