Xxsckarterxx Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 Is there somewhere to buy flat sided and shallow running balsa baits that alrdy have the bill and ballast already placed in them and are RDY for paint? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobP Posted November 5, 2013 Report Share Posted November 5, 2013 You can buy bare balsa bodies but I've never seen balsa baits that are ready to paint. The best I can do is recommend repainting a finished balsa crankbait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJBarron Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 I ran across one while looking for plastic blanks ill check my laptop tomorrow to see if I saved the site. They were charging $15 a a ready to paint balsa blank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joliepa Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 (edited) I ran across one while looking for plastic blanks ill check my laptop tomorrow to see if I saved the site. They were charging $15 a a ready to paint balsa blank. WOW. personally I don't get this. ! If you were going to blow that kind of money.. you might as well start scraping away lucky craft lures and putting your own paint job on. If you want the exercise in painting there are many,many places selling plastic blanks. weighting, bills and all that are already figured out, and I'm just generally loving the ones I completed. (even if I am a pretty unskilled at painting lures). You even 'save' from money, though Not for a long long time If you had to set up shop (like I did)... and onthe other hand, to be able carve a real homecrafted balsa wood lures would be a huge breakthrough in your fishing abilities. No more thoughtless mind games with brandname lures,you systematically experiment with action, depths, and color until you find the lure of the day in a way you'd struggle to do so with brandname stuff. I'm totally understanding the need to tackle smaller challenges before bigger ones though. and I think, once you've got a rough ability to paint lures (in color schemes you think would work); if you don't want to dive into making a whole lure from scratch... janns Netcraft has "turned" balsa blanks. Weighting, through wire, and putting in the bill right is still something you'd have to figure out, but at least, carving wise you wouldn't have the extra challenge of trying to carve a symmetrical "good enough" lure. I'm not entirely sure though how good an spherical turned lure would work. perhaps you would still have a bit of carving to get into a more typical shape. much as I wanted to ease into this hobby, I try to remember the big picture. for the last several years I was the guy with 3 rogues that wandered all over the river. Lose a couple and I'm hunting through the piggy bank to buy some more. There wasn't room for much of an assortment, and even when I did, little understanding about what makes a BomberA different anyways. One of my friends approach the problem much better. a better stocked assortment of lures means they can change lures to better meet the conditions. He's looking down as the lure comes back and gets a feel for the wobble. when it happens, when it doesn't. How strong it does. He has developed an intuitive sense between wide slow wobbles and tighter quicker ones. and switches his lures more methodically. In the Big picture, redoing the paint job of someone elses lures isn't going to really going to get you to the place where you've mastered understanding the plug. I reminding myself, that despite my limitations this skill will be worth it. If thats not your quest, I wonder, why paint plugs at all? the world is full of many great plugs and this board is full of many talented custom lure crafters. Yes, it would be a bit expensive to seek out some of the handcrafted balsa plugs- but on the other hand, making your own, you'd just up spending the money in supplies, time, and failures. (the long rambling post is partially because I was thinking of the very doing the very same thing, until I thought through it some) Edited November 7, 2013 by joliepa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
