Sonny.Barile

Well.....I am all set up and ready to paint. I know most of you airbrush guys will scold me for doing so, but I bought a Badger 250. I had a 40% off coupong for AC Moore and it was all they had left on the shelf. I figured $19 for my first one wasnt to bad of a deal anyway. I also bought a small off-brand compressor but it was so loud (and the package said it was quiet) that I brought it back. I ended up piecing together a Badger 1/4" adapter ($4) and a Home Depot quick disconect fitting set ($5) to a 5 gallon air storage tank I have (free). I am able to fill the tank with the portable 12 volt compressor I keep in my truck. I know it is a nuissance to refill it but it beats compressor noise hands down. I only had about an hour of free time last night and I used it painting some scrap paper...........I have two lures ready to paint and will be doing so as soon as my kid goes to bed............One of them was made with the pattern I posted yesterday...........

OOPS...............forgot to attache the files............... (To much laquer fume exposure)

I have attached a 7 inch diving stick bait pattern. It includes the lip in the drawing. Just print it and cut it out to use it as a template. I am in the process of making one myself. Just sealed it this morning. It should weight about 1-1/2 oz when finished....maybe a little more cause I used 15mm thick hickory. I had the file in Autocad but I know most folks dont have that. I converted it to DXF and bitmap files. For the bitmap, just scale it until it is the right length................. This is a good newbie project..............as always, check the weights by attaching them temporarily and putting it in a bucket of water before commiting to the hole positions...................... Have Fun Sonny

I ate a smaller fish for dinner lastnight............and I couldnt finish it all...............

Small V hulled boats have no stability at rest. I bought a Zodiack for that very reason. I am a 200 pounder and can stand on the sides without it tilting. It still has a moderate v and can plane through the rough stuff. It has it's bad points though.....If I ever scrape a submerged stump I will probably be swimming back to the dock.....lol

The wires are bead blasted to give them a rough matte finish then they are molded in. They wont pull out.

I get oak and hickory planks (approx. 3/4") from the pallets used to ship equipment to the facility I work at. I also have plenty of friends living in the burbs that tend to stockpile all sorts of odd hardwood planks for the woodstoves and fire places. I have some thin trunk pieces (about 6") from some young ash trees a friend cleared on his land a couple of years ago. I waxed the ends and have them sitting in my furnace room drying out. I have a nice stock pile going..........

I ended up buying a Badger 250-3 and a small "quiet" compressor. The gun was $33 and the compressor was $130 I got 40% off the compressor ($78). I got them home to find that the hose doesnt fit the compressor. I plugged the compressor in anyway just to hear it. It was really loud. The box said it was "Quiet", so I would hate to hear what they mean by loud. Anyhow, I ended up bringing the compressor back. I picked up a Badger 1/4" adapter. I then hit Home Depot for a quick disconect fitting set. I hooked it up to my 5 gallon air storage tank. I added in the quick disconect so I can change from the airbrush hose back to the schrader valve hose quickly. I have a small portable 12 volt lighter plug compressor in my truck to keep the 5 gallon tank full. The cost of the adapter and the fittings was $8 total. SUPER QUIET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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How loud are these little desktop tankless compressors that are used for airbrushing? I will be doing my airbrushing in the house at night and noise is an issue. Also, has anyone ever used one of those 5 gallon air storage tanks as a quiet option? I have seen them with shrader valves....Im not sure if they can be hooked up to the airbrush though. Any help would be appreciated................

I second that on the drywall net tape. I just finished foiling a bait that I used it on today. It doesnt look so great..............but it is way better than the paint job I attempted to put on it at first. I did this to try and save it.

OK I am no "epoxy expert" but I think I know what the gummy film is on the surface. It is referred to as "amine blush". You need to do exactly what these lure building experts have told you below. Wipe it down with denatured alcohol. If you are not going to prime or paint within 24 hours, do it again just before painting. Depending on the cross section (thickness) it could reappear if not painted uo to a few weeks later. If you poke around on some woiod boat building web sites you will learn all about it. That is probably why you are getting spots that dont paint. It feels like some kind of greasey wax film and it doesnt hold paint on it...or even more epoxy. The boat builders reccomend sanding between layups if you are waiting more than a few hours to hit it again. Hope this helps...........

I have already tested them in the water, and they do swim like they are supposed to. I havent tried really fishing them yet, so I dont know if they catch fish.

jflures.......if you ever had to get your lure out of the mouth of a 20 lb. blue fish you would switch to singles in the rear.....LOL

Im from Secaucus......I think we talked a few weeks ago on another thread labeled Salt Water Builders??????

Thanks plenty folks..........I hit the Home Depot and came home with a 9" Ryobi band saw. I have already cut out a bunch of blanks to play with. I have a few slats of oak from a pallet. I also have a couple of the large cross peices that I was trying to figure out how to cut planks from easily. From what Coley posted....I guess I was thinking about it all wrong.......Thats definitely thinking out of the box..........A freind gave me a Hickory plank today and I have already made some dust with it. That stuff is rediculously hard. It cuts nice, but it is really hard to sand down finished. I like how tough it is....but it makes oak feel like pine in contrast...LOL Regards Sonny

The chubby ones are Breams. 4-1/2 inches long and about 1-3/4 oz. The longer ones are Divanni No Twitch's 5-1/2 inches ,ong and 1-1/2 0z. I found patterns for them on a website. I havent been fishing yet this year byt I did walk over to the river and take a few test casts. Im pretty happy with the way they run. Im not real happy with the finishes as I said....but I think that is just going to take practice and more patience between coats of paint.

Well.....Here is the product of the last weeks evening work.......My finishing isnt to good but I hope to get better.............

Sorry MT............LoL

Hey..........the poloticians always try to win over us sportsmen right before the election. You will see........a week before the presidential election you will see Hillary hunting bear with a shotgun or bass fishing on a Sunday morning tv show. I have a joke.............. Why does Bill Clinton hang out with George Bush Sr. so much? He doesnt like Hillary either.....................

If you havent made the bondo fixture yet, skip it. Return it to the store and get your money back. Go over to the walmart or any local craft store and pick up a bar of Sculpey III polymer clay. This stuff seems hard when you buy it but you need to work it with your hands for a few minutes and it gets soft. Push it into a square shaped dish or box. Push the lure into the clay so it takes the shape you it needs to cradle it. Pull the lure out and put the Sculpey into the oven for 20 minutes at 285 degrees. And ther is your fixture. The clay cost about $2 for a brick big enough to make fixtures for 2 or 3 common sized cranks. It isnt a ceramic or stone. It is a plastic so it wont crack the way regular clay does. It can also be worked like wood when it is cured. Have fun.................