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A lot of nice detail on this bait. If you put this in water, you'd better be near a large net when you do it. Its going to get smashed! -
I love threads like these. This is what building is all about...balls out, go for broke engineering. Pop rivets for eyes? You betcha. Adding lead as you go? (*Fatfingers does his best impression from the jail house scene with Gene Wilder)"That's right, that's right.We bad, we bad." Welcome to the boards, my friend. You'll fit right in here, Matt. Soon the world will look very different to you. See that sugar you used to thoughtlessly throw in your coffee? Now, before you stick your spoon in it, you'll consider its possibilities as glitter. Plastic will no longer be something you casually discard....oh no; you must first examine it for even the least potential as some type of stencil. Your wife's makeup drawer takes on a life of its own...its brimming with color (nail polish) and applicators (little makeup brushes) and stencils (that huge variety of thingies she uses to curl and otherwise toy with her hair-do). Your friends will look at you with raised eyebrows as they respond, "Why yes, Matt, I'll save my kids popsicle sticks for you." And woman will view you quite differently too...as they question your masculinity after seeing you in the lace and fabric department at Walmart for the third time this week. Welcome to the insanity. You can never go back...never.
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Those just look like they interest a variety of species of fish. Very cool design! -
Amazing as always, Doug. -
I threw my Bass-A-Matic Jr today. I had a smallie take a swipe at one of my musky baits, so I reached over for my other rod, snapped on the Bass-A-Matic Jr and on the very next cast to the same spot...
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Nice batch of baits, Rod. The colors really pop on the one with the black dots. I see smallmouth in your future. -
The Custom Micron CM-C Plus is a precision tool, sort of like a cell phone. You could function without one, but you'd never hit your true potential. It comes down to how seriously you want to approach this hobby and how far you want to go with it. Can you "get by" without one or one just like it? Yep. But you could say the same about a drying wheel, the number of colors you paint with, the use of epoxy, and a whole range of things we commonly use to build a quality bait that is not only productive but also esthetically pleasing to use.
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Thanks, Braided. Stone Coal, I figured you'd see all the similarities because of your love of building vintage baits. I hope you're building again soon and posting some of your work. -
Clear-coating the ceiling sounds like a great idea...but first a little foil around the light fixtures, a few scales and stripes...
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I can see a color shift in the picture and I like that fade down the throat too. That's going to get smashed in the water! -
Thanks, Dean. -
Beautiful work and I'll bet the bass will love the combination of pop and dive too. Those old timers had a lot of good ideas. -
Even a swivel on the belly hook? Man, that's a quality bait! Great paint work too, Doug.A+ -
Thanks, you guys. -
I made this sort of as it happened, from start to finish. I had no plan for it, either shaping it or in the painting process. I just painted whatever colors I grabbed off the shelf, more or less. Actually it runs great as a wake bait. It runs about 4 to 6 inches deep with a fast retrieve and about 0 to 2 inches with a normal retrieve. I did try to copy the eye area of a vamp (with the cutouts) and I tried to add the slant of jerkbait to the forehead to move water and create a downward bias. So, lol, yea, it was sort of a mistake, but it is functional and seems to have potential as a surface/sub-surface, low-light, muskrat-lookin', wounded-beaver, easy meal sort of thang. I do think it needs a bigger, bushier, black bucktail dressing for the ass end. And maybe a top hat and mustache and an entourage of baitfish toady escorts.
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Lee Sisson makes a crank bait in a color he calls Texas Red. The muskies on one of our local lakes favors that color so I made a Palm Bait in that color. Bent Lexan lip in the square shape. -
Lee Sisson makes a crank bait in a color he calls Texas Red. The muskies on one of our local lakes favors that color so I made a Palm Bait in that color. Bent Lexan lip in the square shape.
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Lee Sisson makes a crank bait in a color he calls Texas Red. The muskies on one of our local lakes favors that color so I made a Palm Bait in that color. Bent Lexan lip in the square shape.
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Thru-wired cedar; body is 4 1/2 inches long. I built this muskie wake bait to throw mostly at dawn, dusk, and after dark. -
Thru-wired cedar; body is 4 1/2 inches long. I built this muskie wake bait to throw mostly at dawn, dusk, and after dark. -
Thru-wired cedar; body is 4 1/2 inches long with fine opal glitter in the clear coats. I built this muskie wake bait to throw mostly at dawn, dusk, and after dark.
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Outstanding!
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The color scheme on this baits works well. I like the eye on this one too. Its is plain, but it adds to the bait somehow. -
6_Feet, that Bass-A-Matic is a real beauty, isn't it? I think its a real winner of a design. I also have one very similar to the Norway Runners. MT, I have one of Tigger's baits too. If you think they're beautiful in the photos, you ought to see how sharp they are in front of you.
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From cedar; 3 3/4 inches long; unweighted; bent Lexan lip. I made these two for Lake Erie smallmouth bass. The lip was a new type which I had not tried previously and it worked out great. It's a bent #1 lip from 1/16 Lexan and they baits run really nice. One is foiled, one is just painted with greens and pearls.