Wiggler

Your work has progressively gotten better, as I see it anyway and that`s met as a complement.

Diemai,

I think you are the most productive TU guy, maybe not as total lure output, but surely as total types of lures. I envy you for that (or should I say that I hate you?)

Now let me guess something about these lures. If you say you have glued together lead sheets and wires in the slot, this sounds to me like you have not made tests beforehand to see how much lead is needed for each lure, because otherwise you would have needed to seal the slot before making the weight tests. And I remember a story you told us once, about testing the weight for only a few of a bunch of identical lures, and assuming the rest of them would need the same weight. The result was that some of the lures were sinking ones. So how do you solve the weight problem in such a type of a lure?

Dieter,

Those are great! You really are a talented builder and painter.

Nice looking paint jobs. Like the simple shapes. I agree with Rofish, the diversity of what you build is great to see.

Thank you guys for your kind word , I really do appreciate them !

@ rofish

Absolutely true , I wrote these statements before , it was about sinking jerks , if my memory serves me right .

These lure here are made of medium buoyant wood , their shape is kinda "good natured"(meaning they are most likely working well)and I already had a little experience working with these materials and shapes .

Actually there was no weight problem to solve , I just estimated , and I am almost sure , that these lures would also have worked without any extra weight as well .

But since a little balance weight most likely lets a lure run more stable , I just added some , not much space in that slot anyway , the lead sheet pieces are only a few millimetres in size , maybe 7 X 3 X 1 mm , so not too heavy at all , just balance !

I intended to leave the lures buoyant from the start , if I wanted them to be deeper diving , I would maybe have used more dense wood for them , but in this case I would have faced weighting problems , indeed !

I guess , in this case I would have weighted them by drilling holes left AND right of the already assembled wire harness .

greetz , Dieter