..... One of my favorite builders,,, been a lot of good times in our short friendship, I look forward to many more Welcome Benny

Can't wait to see this. Benny's work is awsome!!!! drool drool


Bluesfish

SWEET!!! CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT YOU GOT UP YOUR SLEEVE BENNY!

one of SBO'S finest....... benny cant wait to see what u got cooking for this ....

Hey guys, sorry for the late response. I've been under tecnological attack today affraid.

I did a whole build with pictures over a month ago and lost the memory card.
So I rebuilt the plug this
morning and took more pics. When I was uploading them to photobucket my computer was attacked by a worm virus and shut down on me.

I'm at work now and I'm going to try and do this from my itouch.

I have minimal tools and I wanted to do something that coul
d be done with just a knife and some sandpaper.
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I'm always trying to come up with something new and usually finding out it's all been done before.
This build is just another one of those stories.
I generely like to sit and hang with the piece of wood I'll be using and wait for the inspiration to come. Trying to pull from the miriad of lures we all see. This is the shape I came up with on this 1.5" square piece of cedar.
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If you have access to a bandsaw or a jigsaw that's the easiest way to cut out your shape but you can also just do it with the knife.
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Next I'll draw my shape on top and bottom and cut to shape with a knife.
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from here I'll put the plug in the vice Greek style and start sanding.
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This plug is pretty easy to make for a wooden lipped swimmer and they've swam very consistantly for me. Basically you just round the bottom infill it meets the top up to the end of the first curve and the round out the back, top and bottom first and then the sides.
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unfortunately this last pic is where my computer crapped out so I have no pics of the rest of the build. As far as weighting goes I put a six gram slug at the center of gravity and a three gram slug an inch in front of that with the hook centered between them. I'm still playing with the through wire but I'm basically doubling the wire,pushing it through and then opening it up again. I fill the holes with plumbers epoxy and then sand and seal.
Tomorrow I should be able to get a couple more pics of the build up and pics of the finished plug which will be given away in tomorrow nights chat.

I'm not sure why these pics aren't coming up in the post, probably has to do with posting from the itouch. If someone knows how to fix that, that would be great.

benny...i've edit your pics to show the images....let me know if it's in the right order.


Looking good benny....

lookin good benny....

way to help with the pics jett.....