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@ Smallie Smokers , drinkers and drivers are keepin' the system goin' , .....at least over here ! greetz:yay: , diemai

@ JBlaze I haven't yet worked with PVC , but this surely is a very good idea for those , that do not have a bandsaw accessible:yes: . Do you use a plain razorblade or one of those with a sheet metal covered egde , that acts as a kind of handle ? Probably a spare blade of a carpet knife might do as well ? Thanks for sharing , John:yes: , .....greetz , Dieter

@ sinyo Never heard of such before:nuhuh: ,.......maybe to create a kind of putty to fill up little holes in the wood:? ? I sometimes do this , but mix with the tiny woodchips from my lathe ,.......filling up the weight holes in my lures this way . greetz, diemai:yay:

@ JustJohn369 Hi , John , welcome at TU ! I purchase my lure components at Welcome to Moore's Lures , but there are also a few other suppliers around , like f. e. "Barlow's" , "Hagens" , "Jann's Netcraft" , "BassProShops", "Cabela's" , etc . , they are all mentioned somewhere in here ! I guess , that mahagony would be too heavy for topwaterlures , ......with all hardware added , such lures would not be buoyant sufficiently anymore:? . Probably a good choice for sinking glider baits ? I guess , over there in the US the guys take your local pinewood or basswood , ....here in Europe abachewood is quite popular , it's weight and density is somewhere between pine and balsa , and it holds epoxied screweyes as well . good luck , diemai:yay:

@ Pike catcher I wonder , why you've put up almost the very same questions in a second thread , even in the same "hardbait section" ? greetz , diemai:yay:

@ Vodkaman Very nice and interesting , Dave , thanks for posting ! Did you use any kind of jig to bend the wire connectors ,..... since the distance between the single eyes of at least each pair of them requires to be exactly alike ? If I need to bend repeatative wire forms , I'd use a jig roughly consisting of a wooden board with some nails in it(heads snipped off) to bend the wire around . Seen a similar hinge before in a Swedish crankbait making book(German edition) , but it was a single joint(not a pair of connectors) , instead of a wire form the author described the use of a sheet metal stripe to connect the two sections . Thanks again:yes: , ....greetz , Dieter

@ Pike catcher At first , welcome to TU ! Location of ballast/balance weights are really depending on the kind of baits that you are building and/or their different purposes . The title of your thread is "jerkbaits" and you are from England , so I assume , that you refer to the kind of lures , that Americans call "gliders" , but we in Europe call them jerkbaits . Have you checked Lurebuilding 101 , there are some building instructions published in there , it's a Dutch site , but an English version is available . For beginners in jerkbait building(also in fishing them) I can especially recommend one model called "The Roach" in there , better known elsewhere as the "Heiddy" . Concerning the sealing and painting of your wooden lure blanks , there are tons of info in various threads around in here ,....... since you are a newcomer , you might not have found out already , but you can utilize the search function to find out more , just type in some keywords refering to your questions . Just be ready to take some time for a thorough look over , you'd definately find something to help you:yes: ! And it is always of advantage to specify details about certain problems ,.... to answer just rather more common questions like yours above would surely fill entire book chapters and hardly anybody might type his fingers sore to answer all ! greetz:yay: , diemai