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Travis and Cullin(Dwain) like big magnums as well as I do Check out these toads along with these stripers(sieb will like them) This is not an advertisement,although I wont hide the fact that this particular guide is among the most loyal and best friends I have on earth :grin: By the way,he was on the tour for several years and fished the classic as well but realized his calling was guiding.Anyway enjoy the photos.These are truly some nice fish.B&B http://www.fishlanier.com/id11.html

LOL thanks guys! New I could count on you I was looking at this as well.My wife is a PA (physician assistant)in the laperscopic surgury field.Guess she needs to show me how to spell all that as well :-D One would think with an engineering degree I could spell better :-D Any way she told me that the technicians use uv adhesives to bond plastic surgery tools and poly tubes and such together as well as they use it in some surgery techniques actually in the body.She told me it was made by a company called dymax.You are correct Skeeter and Spo they have to use speacial eye protection.She said the stuff they use bonds in 2 seconds as well.And they use a speacial light as well that can be pinpointed to a specific area. I contacted dymax and they will take some general information from you as to your application intentions.They will then send you samples for testing free. http://www.dymax.com/ The guy I spoke with told me that they have all kinds of formulations that cure at different uv strengths and said was very possible to get a formula that did not require the really exspensive lights but that it would cure a little slower.Best thing is (if i did not mis- understand him) the stuff is completly safe to use as far as VOC and harmfull vapor.Only draw back is once cured something like accitone would dissove it.Well guess that an't so bad. I think I will try to persue this more because I huff enough dangerous fumes as it is.And since I refuse to get away from lacquer i guess i should cut my exsposure down in other areas if i can. Thanks for saving me the trouble of searching amelesly(sp) for that nuclear bomb that guy was inventing lol.I will keep u posted B&B

A recent thread on Bill Dance Outdoors caught my attention.You can read it at the link posted below. I call your attention to the 14th or 15th post in that thread. Please correct me if I am wrong! If we follow the logic in that post,does this mean that 99% of us here at TU are not Lure Makers? I have only been at TU less than a year but noticed this guy named Carolina Chip must have been a big influence to alot of people here according to his claim. I was wondering with his 31 years experience how many of you at TU he influenced.I remember this guy being around on TU when I first joined but he dissapeared. Does anyone know why?Were we just amatures in his veiw? As of 5/23/05 this thread was deleted. http://www.billdanceoutdoors.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=007251 Thanks B&B

http://www.tackleunderground.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=3186 would the link rockhopper posted on patent search help find this. I bet not it is probably in the chemical section

I like it LL you have some very cool stuf dude. Thanks for sharing it

Golden,here are the threads related to this topic,go to the search menu and type in devcon. Each one of the tpoics below have many replies regarding topcoats. There is a weeks worth of reading at least here and much usefull info. Forum Topics Author Replies Views Last Post Hard Baits spray epoxy? bgolden 0 42 Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:01 pm bgolden Hard Baits rookie 'weighting question' finlander 10 278 Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:27 pm Skeeter Hard Baits Table Top Epoxy Husky 12 400 Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:00 pm Skeeter Hard Baits Steping up my game ROBZILLA 5 382 Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:40 pm Skeeter Hard Baits Calling all Plastic Melters! Need help with dip! Oncorhynchus_tshawytscha 8 349 Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:25 pm Oncorhynchus_tshawytscha Hard Baits Coat for Rapala wood BassBandit31 3 236 Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:23 pm Skeeter Hard Baits Sticky Devcon mossy maker 1 65 Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:36 pm Nathan Hard Baits Painting cedar lures- bare wood to clearcoat -(polyurethane) dragline 10 277 Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:54 pm RiverMan Hard Baits buying devcon or e-tex? brandonjh00 8 260 Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:09 am baitmaker2 Hard Baits Kiln dry? musky1 3 149 Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:16 pm cheesehead Hard Baits Coating big lures with Devcon. Slimo 7 272 Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:04 pm overkill Hard Baits Etch A Sketch's new wheels! ROBZILLA 14 452 Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:08 pm Richoc Wire Baits 3D eyes on spinnerbaits dont stick FishnDreams 8 211 Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:06 pm kellure Hard Baits Sanding between coats. Slimo 6 177 Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:33 am apb Hard Baits wooden lure sealing revisited yet again [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] jigmeister 15 481 Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:09 pm Dean McClain Hard Baits Been Lurking for a while, now it's time to ask a question RP 5 407 Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:06 pm RP Hard Baits direction to rotate dtrs5kprs 4 216 Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:14 pm Dean McClain Hard Baits Recoating time Devcon bombadier 4 156 Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:57 pm bombadier Hard Baits Aristocrat liquid glass overkill 8 327 Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:33 am woodsac Hard Baits E-texbad batch? [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] Tom S 20 689 Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:52 am angeliter Soft Plastics Durhams mold help. log 5 293 Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:57 pm The Dutchman Hard Baits still fightin bubbles [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] RiverMan 18 583 Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:48 am tbasse01 Hard Baits cracking devcon mossy maker 9 310 Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:30 am Skeeter Hard Baits spraying epoxy bengowa@hotmail.com 10 427 Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:55 pm bengowa@hotmail.com Hard Baits Automotive Laquer johnnytheboy 12 541 Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:18 pm johnnytheboy Hard Baits Air Brush Basics for Dummies [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] badfish03 20 956 Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:28 am SpoRoller Hard Baits bait blanks tbasse01 5 401 Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:21 pm RiverMan Hard Baits createx gloss clear coat tbasse01 4 224 Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:38 pm badfish03 Hard Baits A ? for the foam gods of TU Lurehead03 9 245 Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:41 am Travis Soft Plastics Does anyone pour a 10" fluke??? GaBassNerd 7 248 Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:12 pm vishezfish Hard Baits Giving Up Travis 10 460 Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:23 pm SpoRoller Hard Baits I need help with Epoxy HellRazer 10 429 Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:10 pm cheesehead Hard Baits epoxy smearing my paint mossy maker 6 192 Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:46 pm mossy maker Hard Baits Crankbait rattles basbaits 8 263 Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:11 pm apb Hard Baits Foam baits with molded in lips [ Goto page: 1 ... 3, 4, 5 ] Coley 60 3062 Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:02 am barramundi Hard Baits tamiya or other alcohol based paint? dtrs5kprs 4 191 Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:31 am musky1 Soft Plastics Help! recoating mold badfish03 1 127 Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:22 am overkill Hard Baits Epoxy mold ?? Cliff 7 465 Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:41 pm SpoRoller Hard Baits Decals are cool, but...... [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] MagicBob 19 975 Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:44 pm Coley Hard Baits Sticky: hard bait cookbook dtrs5kprs 6 3170 Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:10 pm dtrs5kprs Hard Baits holographic tape softworm 8 359 Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:59 am apb Hard Baits unpainted Believers finlander 7 431 Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:57 pm Tom S Hard Baits paint peeling off!!!! [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] robert giberson 20 727 Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:30 am Mallard Hard Baits eyes kellure 3 273 Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:03 pm the greek Hard Baits More Chrome questions... [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] JustDave45 19 894 Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:43 pm ROCFISH Soft Plastics Some Hints and Tips When Making Plaster Molds NJFishRGuy 8 404 Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:49 pm Travis Hard Baits plastidip BowfinBoy95 4 222 Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:39 pm Nathan Hard Baits My Devcon is sticky [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] TackleTester 20 500 Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:24 am TackleTester Hard Baits After Devcon woodsac 3 166 Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:05 pm woodsac Soft Plastics First two piece mold but... [ Goto page: 1, 2 ] NJFishRGuy 21 621 Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:49 am Teamdiarrhea Bgolden go to search menu and type in devcon and search lots of good stuf

Welcome Geeman.

I hereby give anyone permission to copy any patent I have (up to this date relative to fishing) or duplicate them for personal use and profit. :grin: Disclaimer: This does not apply to my 3 machine patents. 2 Utility and 1 Design. Just wanted to razz a little LOL sorry. PSS. [b]Not wanting to boast but the part about machine patents is true.LOL[/b]

I was having problems with the PC (powder coat) holding up to the riggors(sp) of a day of 100 or more cast into heavy cover and slow rolling bladed baits off and along bottom structure. This one just went through a day just like that and wow!!!! The finish was undamaged.Thanks Cavu for the tutorial and every one else for all the corrosponding threads. They have helped me greatly. B&B Oh Yeah, before I took the pic I kept bending this one back and forth until it broke. Notice how clean the break was with no cracking LOL

t-bait pm me with sizes you want I will be sending some to basskat as soon as possible

And here endeth the lesson on the "fair use clause" :grin: Amen Brother Skeeter,Amen Blades and Baits

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Lapala gave told me of this site a couple days ago.This site was very informative and had many links to other related sites.Maybe someone else may find it helpfull as well so thought I would post it.Thanks LP www.franklinforge.com

LP, those look better than the originals dude :!: Keep up the good work :!: I think I am gonna put away my airbrush and try the rattlecan :-D Oh yeah, are these for personal use ? If so then make all you want dude and tell anyone you want to how you did it. Just sel me one please B&B

http://www.texastackle.com/pliers.htm I got home made ones of every type I can imagine.Thought I was happy until I got these.I always had a problem installing split rings on ball bearing swivels until I got these. Sorry for late reply,had some time to dig around in the forums B&B

That fade from craw scale to craw scale is awesome.First class on both of them :-D When the clear goes on they will be even better. I am impressed!

Dwain,as with any subject there will be many with interesting information to respond.Man! what a good subject to post here. I cant say for sure that Bob was the sole person to start this crazy and wonderful thing we do with custom lures.I can say the he has been a big influence on me. Bob came up with some pretty good color schemes back when there were only just a few to choose from, and most of them caught fish. Dale Sellers gives Bob a lot of credit for influencing his work.I think that Hughes was a taxidermist back then,(I could be wrong) and Bob had some influence on Tim as well.I think that Tim and Bob may have worked together at one time.(I may be wrong about this as well)Maybe guys like Tim Hughes (is he still a moderator?) could shed a little more light on the subject. Last account I had of Bob was he was still in the Missouri area.The last time I spoke to Bob I believe he was in the electrical buisiness.Think I might try to contact Bob sometime in the future and get his take on the subject.Maybe he could give a little history on who or what influenced him.

Sorry Steel Pulse, I did not read the post correctly- my bad! I would highly recommend powder clearcoat. If the aluminum is shaded (toned with paint) then when you clear it be sure that your paint is fully dry.Water base paints can handle the heat better than laquer. You can purchase some clear from component systems http://www.csipaint.com/ if you call ask for kurt.You can take a heat gun and 1 pound of clear ($12.00) and clear a bunch.B&B

http://www.devcon.com/devconfamilyproduct.cfm?familyid=107.0&catid=15 works very well- I also use it to make prototype jig modifications.Bonds to lead very well.B&B

I have ran about every model Ranger made from time to time.The 518 is probably the worst for "chine walking" you will just have to drive your boat thru it or just get used to where it starts to do this and back out of it a little.If you were to continue at that particular trim and drive thru it the temp light is probably gonna come on for low water pressure. If you were by yourself and running fairly light then no matter what you do you are probably going tp see this.Put someone in the boat with you and fill the live wells with water. (just to see the difference) I run a 205 vx now with a 225 efi.By myself it will run 81 mph gps if I can drive it thru the chine walk.I might add that it will walk pretty bad until I get it on the center of the pad.When I am tourn fishing and have a partner,I could not make it chine walk for Hell.74mph is tops I wouldnt mess with it.Ranger sets those boats up from the factory to perform as a fishing boat not a racing boat.Over trimming is just something the operator needs to control.Oh yeah------ If you even think about putting a jack plate on it get prepared to have worse handling problems. Call this number and ask for CW Bond @ Bonds Marine Sales 706-795-0951 Give him the boat info and he will tell you in about 30 seconds if the motor and prop are as factory set it up.There is always a chance someone has changed something. Good Luck and congradulations on owning the best boat made Blades

Utah,Here's how this skirt deal works.If you buy from Stamina,Jann's,Barlow's,and most other suppliers you are essentually buying a silicone skirt that was supplied by Skirts Plus.Even the majority of skirts purchased from living rubber were supplied by Skirts Plus. This silicone material is produced in Thialand in solid un cut strips.It is then ran thru a slitter to make the pad into strads with a repeated skip. Skirts Plus almost has the market cornered so I do try to buy from them when buying bulk.Altough I am pretty sure they hold the patend or trademark or what the heck ever you call it (rockhopper probably knows) on natures edge,nature scales,silichrome,and barbed wire, I have never known them to offer it in fine strand. Enter Rat Trap. Listen to Pop :!: 95% of my skirting comes from Rat Trap.I do know that they have the capabilitiy of slitting strands for custom order.I dont know if they own a machine to do this or not.I do know that they also get some material from thialand same as skirts plus. These guys are great.Since building a relationship with them I very seldom make a banded skirt anymore.If I come up with something new I just send them a sample,and from then on I just order the skirt banded.Call them and request a brochure.It an't impressive.But the prices are very good.I figure by the time I build a skirt from scratch I am only saving about 5 cents.I will gladly pay 5 cents not to have to mess with it. Any way,take the number that Pop gave you and give them a call.Get a tax id number if you wish.Depending on how many lures you sell you may need one.If you dont sell that many lures to the public,take some advice and dont get the id #.The government will expect to hear from you on a regular bases.You will save 10%(well not exactly but close) on your purchase but you had better be selling something and passing that savings you were given from the supplier on to the government when you sell the lure you made from the raw goods. blades

For those of us who were,and are, fortunate enough to have had a Father or even a Father Figure to take the time to do things with us,what are your fondest memory's. Here are a couple of mine At around age 4 Dad started taking me along on his fishing trips.It seemed that every Saturday we would leave before daylight.We would go to a local community lake called Lake Well Brook.We didn't have a boat so we would borrow the caretaker of the property's 10 ft John Boat.He was a man named Roy Miller and was good friends with my Dad. I can remember it like yesturday pulling up to Roy's house and helping my Dad slide that boat in the truck.We also had to borrow the paddle LOL. It seemed like we made countless trips to Lake Wellbrook and I wondered would I ever catch a "Big Mouse Bass"(thats what dad said I called them) Finally I caught me a "Big Mouse".Odly enough I was not emparting any action to the jelly worm as Dad had taught me.No,I was standing up in the boat taking care of giving the lake a little more water.A remember that like it was yesturday as well. I remember Dad and I went to"BIG G" discount store in Athens one afternoon, and Dad purchased us a brand new 12 foot John Boat.Complete with Johnson electric trolling motor ,anchor,seats,and a couple of Coleman lanturns. I think the boat cost $40.00.It was 1969 but I remember that day as if it were 10 minutes ago.This was probably the happiest and most memorable day of my childhood. Since that day there have been at least a thousand fishing trips wev'e taken in that boat and at least 5 picture albums full of memory's. Now I fish from a $40,000 fully loaded Ranger. My Dad has never really had much use for it.He say's "Boy!!!! your'e running past all the fish when you hammer down the lake at 70 mph" and I dont want no part of it!!! Looking back now I realize that I had much more fun in that John Boat.I still have that old Gibson John Boat and the trolling motor. The boat is as good as new.I would sell my Ranger tomorrow and never bat an eye,but there will never enough money to buy that John Boat.My memory's are not for sale. A couple weeks ago Dad and I were discussing when we would take our first spring fishing trip for the year.Arguing over what farm pond we wanted to hit first and whether I could fit a trip in between my tournament schedule and other business. He is currently fighting for his life in the hospital.If any of you believe in a greater power above,please pray for him. Blades

http://www.tackleunderground.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=4698 as for a brush,you will find many pro's and con's to all brands. Do some research here on the brush subject.I think you will find some good info but it can also be so much information that you will still be indecisive.Short and sweet here is my opinion.Buy an iwata from dixie art supply period-paragraph.B&B