hazmail Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 Another 2 Lip Aligners Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodkaman Posted September 27, 2007 Report Share Posted September 27, 2007 I read your post and struggled, could not get your link to work. Then I clicked your pic at the bottom. WOW! Fantastic. Excelent solution, many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pikeman Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 I read your post and struggled, could not get your link to work. Then I clicked your pic at the bottom. WOW! Fantastic. Excelent solution, many thanks. http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb290/hazmail/Lip%20Jig%202/ maybe it will work like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazmail Posted September 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Pikeman- Top link worked every time for me!! BUT How do you do that? As you can see I'm no computer boffin. Thanks pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazmail Posted September 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2007 Just uploaded "Fixed Post" version. Sorry for the delay.Pete Use Pikemans link . http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/b...Lip%20Jig%202/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverMan Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 Very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastendlu Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 In your fixed post version if you swap out the two pins and use a vertical V-BLOCK you could use a wider variety of lips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazmail Posted October 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 Yep , sounds good to me , thanks Eastendlu. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joliepa Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 An old post That I'm going to bring back to life. as a newby carver my first attempt to set a lip was... well, horrible. its not even close. I have no access to a bandsaw so I attempted a coping saw. That might have not been so bad but I cut a notch far thinner than my lexan. Now carved, I then realized I had some major excavation to do. full of curves and with no reference marks left, the excavated notch is not even close to even and I'm pretty sure the uneven bill will cause the bait to corkspiral through the water.... so what next? here is the game plan. I intend to excavate it even further so that it is wider in every dimension. the fill it with wood sandable wood filler. If I had a lip aligner perhaps at that point, I could insert the lip while it is still soft and have it set perfectly strait? or perhaps I just need to fill the hole and try to cut it, once the wood filler has set... an actual lip aligner is an interesting idea though. and I might see if my feeble woodworking skills are up to the task of creating something. Has other people besides haz attempted a lip aligning jig? I'd appreciate your experiences in getting this tricky procedure right, espacially if you are building without access to a bandsaw, dremel or scroll saw.. (there's got to be an Old school way to do this right?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 First I'd put a front to back centerline on the lure, and another line crossways on the lure's face, square to the first centerline. Close counts, so take your time to get it as close to square as you can. Then put masking tape onto the lip, and a centerline on the lip. Wedge the lip into the sloppy slot using toothpicks as temporary wedges, trying to get the centerline on the lip in line with the centerline on the lure, and the lip surface parallel to the cross ways line. Trust your eye. There is no way to get it perfect, but you should be able to get close. Once you've gotten it so it looks right to you, remove the wedges and lip, fill the lip slot with epoxy and wipe some onto the part of the lip that'll be inserted, and reinstall the lip, again using the toothpicks for alignment wedges. Wipe off the excess glue, and let it set up. Cut off the toothpicks, if they won't come back out, and seal the cutoffs. Test the lure. Next time, take the time to make a wooden miter box to hold your lure blank so you can cut a squared up slot while the blank still has flat sides. You can use a coping saw for this, too. To widen the slot for your lexan, remove some more material from the bottom, so you always have the flat, square upper cut to use to align you lip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobP Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 I cut lip slots on a scroll saw whose kerf is too thin for the Lexan lips I use. Cut the slot immediately after cutting out the basic lure shape, while the blank is still "square" and keep a scrap piece of Lexan by the saw so you can widen the original cut for a perfect fit. Another trick I found when installing a lip in a slot that is much too large (for instance if you're replacing a broken lip and have to hog out the slot to get the old one out): epoxy putty logs used for furniture repair and available at your local home center work great. Fill the slot with putty and then push the lip in. You have about 2 minutes before the epoxy begins to harden to adjust the lip. For lips that fit properly in the slot, I use slow cure epoxy paste (Rod Bond) that is sold for rod grip construction to glue them. The paste is thicker than liquid epoxy, not as thick as epoxy putty. It takes 4-5 hrs to begin hardening, giving you plenty of time to fool around with lip adjustment, but it is stiff enough when mixed to hold a lip in position, and it will not leak out of the slot like liquid epoxy can. Liquid epoxy, paste epoxy, epoxy putty - all great stuff for building lures! Installing the lip is really when you find out how symmetrical your bait body is and whether all the hardware is centered as is should be. If the body is not symmetrical or the hardware is not centered, it's almost impossible to get a lip aligned properly. I've tried several alignment methods. If your lip has a centering dot marked on its end with a Sharpie, you can sight down the tail and belly hangers and the line should hit the dot if it is centered. I sometimes use a laser level light to do this. More often, I just flip the bait over on its belly and make sure that equal amounts of lip protrude on each side of the bait. And if the protruding lip segments aren't exactly alike in shape, that's an indication that the lip is angled up or down on one side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diemai Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 @ joliepa Check out this video put out by Mr. Paul Adams from the UK , .......IMO a most ingenious lure tinkerer , unfortunately he does not apppear to be a member in here . He has a dead sure sense for amazingly simple solutions on how to work down lures and/or making simple jigs or tools to proceed his lure and tackle work . You may also check out his entire YouTube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/paulpadam?feature=watch Enjoy , .......greetz , Dieter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barr5150 Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 I found that getting the back of the lip slot square to the lure is key. Then all I need to do is bottom the lip in the slot and adjust it by eye side to side. You could easily cut the slot by hand before you shape the lure using a homemade miter box (as mentioned above). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazmail Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Paul HAS done an excellent job here Dieter, thanks for posting it-- It really shows the possibility of video compared to photographs. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
