Legendary Lures Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Check this out: The 3 inch cedar body is handcarved and hollow. It has rattles inside. The soft rubber legs and feet are the resdults of my first mold. I made the mode from water putty. Sat it on the furnace for a couple days to dry it out rather than baking it. Epoxy finish. The hook is on the back to make the lure more weedless, hide the hook from the fish and to keep the hook from interferring with the legs. Comments welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebler_custom_baits Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redg8r Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Alright Larry! Good to see you dabbling in some soft plastics! good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Brush Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Cool design. I'd like one in mallard or wood duck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangeboy79 Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 cool lure. the pikes here in sweden would love to put there teeth in that one! how did you attach the legs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legendary Lures Posted February 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 Thanks for the compliments. However, I'm having a problem with the soft rubber legs and feet. They keep falling off! Here's the background info: I drilled a hole into the duck body and it is slightly smaller in diameter than the top of the leg. I purposefully avoided coating the inside of the hole with Devcon. I did not put oil of any kind on the soft rubber parts. My mold is made of baked water putty and coated with Devcon diluted with alcohol. I didn't oil the mold. I tried a super glue. One leg stayed on, the other fell off. I tried Devcon two-part 5 minute epoxy. Both legs fell off, early squirted out of the holes. What works to hold soft rubber to unpainted, uncoated wood? BTW: Once I find out how to firmly attach the legs, I'll be making these little ducklings in other colors. I'll put a couple on eBay to try to establish a fair price and then put them on my website. So if you want one, please hang on a little while longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlander Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 I have seen where someone will hang large Colorado blades underneath for the feet. I have thought of making these in the past. Wouldn't be that hard to do. One man builds these with feathers. Could not bring his website up. He has advertised in MuskyHunter magazine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskiefool Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Very cool Nice work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Why don't you attach small corkscrew spring steel to the duck and just screw the legs on. That way if a leg gets damaged by a fish you can easily replace it. :idea: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
