JBlaze

I suppose it would depend on wwhat you werre going to do with it. I have the little blue bender which does fine for making buzz bait frames and r-bend spinner baits. I seldom use it any more. About seven years ago I bought a Hagens Professional Wire Former. It make those and much more. It is still as good now as the day that I got it. I think it is well worth the money it costs. John

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Mark, I am using the trimboard, I found it at Home Depot several years ago when I was looking for the decking that you spoke of. John

I saw my pattern out on a band saw then use a dremel drum sander for the major shaping then finish by hand and a sanding block. It works up pretty quickly. I think I have read in one of the posts here that it can be rounded off with a router. I don't haave one so I have not tried that. John

Hey Mark, I have and I really like that stuff. It absolutely will not absorb water and eliminates one step in building a lure. Not sure about bouyancy but I feel that it is very close to poplar wood. It is easy to shape and sand. I am working on one right now. Right now it is so cold down here and in my un-insulated, unheated garage that I have not even placed the belly weight in it yet. I am trying to learn one of Littleriver's methods of painting so since I can't stand the cold, I jumped the gun and started painting on this one before it was really ready. One other thing that I found about this stuff, when I first started using it I was worried that with it being so slick that my hook hangers would pull out under a load. So I made two haywire twists 1 1/8 in long each. The second wire was inserted thru the loop of the first one before being twisted so that they were linked together. I then took two small pieces of the PVC drilled a hole in each piece and inserted the wires in the holes. I then applied thin CA glue to the wire where it entered the hole and let it set overnight. The next morning I tried pulling the wires out They wouldn't budge. We have a body builder where I work and I took it to him and asked him to pull it apart. He couldn't do it either although he did succeed in elongating the two eyes of the hangers. So I did find out that this stuff really gets a grip on wire using CA glue. Here is a pic of the one I am currently working on. John http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh72/JBlaze1952/PVC%20Crank/