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05-10-2008, 08:40 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North shore
Posts: 1,247
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Some swimmers, works in progess...
My goal is to make them lipless. The top one is my best effort so far. Starts on top and will swim down to about 2 feet. The second one started out lipless and I wasn't happy with it, so I put on a Lefty lip and it was transformed. It swims scary good... The third is totally different and is modeled after a swimmer a good friend of mine gave to me that he whittled out of a piece of cyprus about 30 years ago. A long skinny lip. It hovers in the current with just the tightest littlest wiggle, just like a bait fish doing no more than necessary to hold it's position.
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05-10-2008, 08:51 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Very nice job
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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05-10-2008, 08:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Very , very nice.I've been working on a few double jointeds myself. Lotta work, but I think the reward is there. That long lean pikie style plug has me drooling as well.... nice stuff, thanks.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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05-10-2008, 09:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North shore
Posts: 1,247
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I need to find a source of sheets of thin brass or stainless steel for the skinny pikie style. I made the lip for this one out of a cut down stainless steel lefty lip. It's nose heavy compared to the original.
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05-10-2008, 09:30 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Nice work and lots of it.  |
" Choose Life "
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05-11-2008, 06:16 AM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
Posts: 1,132
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Those are very cool.
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05-11-2008, 09:33 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North shore
Posts: 1,247
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Salty, I eyeballed the brass, comparing it to your round head swimmer lip. The brass is maybe 1/2 to 2/3 as thick. If I can find a friend who has a micrometer, I'll get you better info.
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05-22-2008, 07:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North shore
Posts: 1,247
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Threw a coat of paint and epoxy on the middle jointed swimmer.
It may become my go to plug if the early forays are any indicator.
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05-22-2008, 07:17 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 41
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steelhead,
What size is the jointed lure with the lip? Height, width? They all look nice.
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05-23-2008, 06:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 100
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how did you end up weighing the top 2, ive made a couple similar lipless swimmers but havent come up with a way to weight them yet
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05-23-2008, 06:54 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North shore
Posts: 1,247
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Top one, no weight, made of cypress. It swims on top to about 12" under. It's scary what it looks like, It just can't handle any amount of current. Middle one, is out of oak, so it's inherently a bit heavy. It has no weight. With the lip it gets right down there. The next few I'm combining the slab sidedness of the top with the weight of the oak in the middle one to see what happens.... Adding belly weights will be after that.
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05-23-2008, 08:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Centerville
Posts: 492
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Good stuff
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