Installing the lips

[ProfessorM]

I go about it a little differently but like all above we all end up with good results. You just have to find something that you are comfortable with. For me, like all my plugs pretty much, I use the belly holes to locate all my plugs for machining so my fixtures have pins that go into the belly holes and hold them onto the fixtures to do slopes, lip slots, flats and pretty much everything else. I am also not a fan of leaving the square ends on. Good luck and you won't go wrong with any of the practices mentioned above. P.

[numbskull]

I just use a Japanese thin kerf pull saw.........but my lip slots are all crooked. The lips fit in better, however. Wit a full sized bandsaw I find the kerf is too big.

[Hookset]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

I go about it a little differently but like all above we all end up with good results. You just have to find something that you are comfortable with. For me, like all my plugs pretty much, I use the belly holes to locate all my plugs for machining so my fixtures have pins that go into the belly holes and hold them onto the fixtures to do slopes, lip slots, flats and pretty much everything else. I am also not a fan of leaving the square ends on. Good luck and you won't go wrong with any of the practices mentioned above. P.

Never tried that, normally drill my belly holes after the lip. The order I have been using is (1) mark eyes & hook & weight & hook holes, (2) cut lip slot, (3) use lip slot to to mark line tie, (4) drill through hole, (5) drill belly and eye holes.

Thinking through that I can really see the value of using belly holes to align along with a jig.
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[ProfessorM]

Originally Posted by Hookset

Never tried that, normally drill my belly holes after the lip. The order I have been using is (1) mark eyes & hook & weight & hook holes, (2) cut lip slot, (3) use lip slot to to mark line tie, (4) drill through hole, (5) drill belly and eye holes.

Thinking through that I can really see the value of using belly holes to align along with a jig.
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I hydro a lot of my swimming plugs so you can't have ends on so that is why I have gone that route and continued it for all my plugs, although I don't hydro everything.