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11-08-2007, 11:33 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 11
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Our First Plugs
Hello my name is Bob Norton and my brother is Glenn. I posted here a few weeks ago looking for a mentor in my area (Point Pleasant NJ). We met up with one of your fellow builders Bill Charleston for some fine instruction in plug building. We met at Bill's shop 4 times to make our first plugs. We were so fortunate to have Bill. His shop was the best and he was a great instructor. This site has given me and my brother a great start in plug building. Words can not express our gratitude for Bill's stepping up and lending a hand to get us started. We are putting together our shop this weekend and in the coming weeks. We have a new Turncrafter Pro/w extension, and maybe a Vega 5200 in the future. We had other tools needed as we also carved decoys for competition and to gun over. I am posting pictures of our first plugs. Mine is the Blue one, and my brothers is the Yellow one. My brother is pictured with Bill in Bills shop. Again thanks to you guys and especially Bill, we are on our way to yet another addiction. Comments on our first plugs are welcome. More pictures as we start our own turnings.
Bob
Last edited by bigtime1204; 11-08-2007 at 11:46 PM..
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11-09-2007, 12:12 AM
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Wave Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: On The Edge!
Posts: 443
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You's are off to a great start!
I like the blue one with the glitter in it, looks like one the girls will like.
Good luck to you both when you give them their maiden voyage into the suds.  |
Insanity is a long and winding road ... I think I finally made it there.
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11-09-2007, 04:48 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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You are so lucky hooking up with Bill .. He saved you alot of time and money going thru the learning curve .. Great guy .. Don't tell him I said that . Shop is imaculate .. I'm in a cramped dust box ... If I was you I buy Bill a nice gift certificate for Mc Donalds ..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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11-09-2007, 05:08 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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lookin Great
your having way to much fun already... 
nice plugmanship guys
hey if you wouldn't mind , post some pics of your
decoys too... and good luck surfcasting those beauties |
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11-09-2007, 06:41 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: south nj
Posts: 317
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wow looks great.
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11-09-2007, 06:54 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Marblehead, MA
Posts: 864
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Nice work! Your set-up looks sweet....
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Fish Rule!
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11-09-2007, 07:15 AM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,543
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very nice firsts!! tell bill his shop is too clean  . |
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11-09-2007, 07:22 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,736
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I'll ecco what everone else has said, you are off to a great start, having been tutored by an experienced plug maker has saved you much time and experimentation.... enjoy your new hobby, it's a great way to stay close to the bass when the skies turn grey and the snow piles up outside...
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11-09-2007, 07:35 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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welcome! Bill is good people  |
Domination takes full concentration..
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11-09-2007, 07:41 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
Posts: 17,119
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You are off to a great start, congrats.
Bill is a good guy, that was very nice of him 
Just wait until you catch fish on your own plugs, you'll really be hooked. |
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11-09-2007, 08:03 AM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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Nice plugs, and that is what makes this community great.
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11-09-2007, 08:27 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Bill is one of the best!
If I was a fish I would bounce all over those poppers!!! They are sweet!!!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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11-09-2007, 09:36 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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That Yellow/red head is Awesome....Nice Job.....They have a Smack-it look to them |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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11-09-2007, 10:36 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Whoa! Nice lookin' stuff there but there is only one problem, Bill's shop is way to organized and clean!!!!!!!!!!! 
Your hooked now, no looking back! |
Why even try......... 
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11-09-2007, 12:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Very nice work! I though that the shop was a store at first. Although my first plugs are long gone, the dust and chips are still in my shop.
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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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11-09-2007, 01:05 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Beautiful work.
Kind of Bill to get you over the curve in a short time. 
Your decoy building experience should help in alot of ways. Like Rav says,post some pics of your decoys. |
" Choose Life "
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11-09-2007, 01:25 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Beautiful.....now go fish them together and let us know who wins!
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11-09-2007, 04:02 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Nice plugs. Shop is way to clean and organized. Looks like an operating room . Bill you must have a maid come in and dust once a week. I prefer to spend 20 minutes looking for one of the 50 screwdrivers I own. Now I can see that contraption your dup.is mounted on.
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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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11-09-2007, 04:38 PM
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Certified Mass-hole
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Jackson, NJ but born and raised in Massachusetts.
Posts: 1,223
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Thanks!
Bob and Glenn had a real desire to learn the basics and that they did! I gave them the whole deal.
My shop is not really all that clean. Sure it's organized but there is saw dust and cedar chips all over.
I hope that my teaching these two guys the basics brings two more people into the forum. Two guys that can contribute some great stuff to the cause. I had a blast teaching them and will remember it for a long time.
Paul, I'm the maid!
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11-09-2007, 05:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 11
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Ok Some wanted to see the decoy work. Here a a few shots. Mostly Bay gunners in Jersey White Cedar hollowed out. A couple are in cork. Some are mine and some my brothers. Not sure how this relates to plugs. Oh yea I have a plug in my 12GA does that count.
Tight Lines
Bob
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11-09-2007, 05:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 11
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A couple more.
Bob
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11-09-2007, 09:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
Posts: 2,290
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low & slow 37
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11-09-2007, 10:20 PM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
Posts: 1,132
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bigtime1204
A couple more.
Bob
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Did you guys go to the Tuckerton Decoy show? I took my Family down there and they got a kick out of it. |
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11-09-2007, 11:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 11
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Striperknight
Down there every year. My brother took first place year before last for a rig of decoys he made. Our heritage is from tuckerton. Great grandfather was a Bayman (Clammer and Duck Hunting Guide) some pictures of him are in the Tuckerton Seaport. Its in the blood.
Bob
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11-10-2007, 12:30 AM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Beautiful head on that Bluebill. |
" Choose Life "
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11-10-2007, 08:42 AM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Good work guys
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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11-11-2007, 12:15 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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They look great. I'll ditto everyones positive comments about your first creations.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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