Here are a couple more that I've started at the behest of a couple friends: One wanted a 4" popper, the other wanted to see if I could make a replica of a 7" Magnum Spook, one of his favorite plugs that he recently cracked. I learned a valuable lesson today working on this: after making the holes for the weights in the tail, I figured that I would take a shortcut and not epoxy the weights in, seeing as how this was just a prototype. So I inserted the weights (1, 1/4oz egg sinker in each hole), covered them with wood filler, let it dry, and put the blank back on the lathe to sand. And while sanding, both weights flew out at about the same time, luckily not in my direction! Lesson learned.
