Salty's Forum
General Category => Plug / Lure Building Forum => Topic started by: Salty on December 15, 2009, 05:23:41 PM
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Welcome to the new Salty's Lure Forum. This is intended to be a place to ask questions about lure building, post pictures, ideas on kits, any new products you'd like us to carry, neat things you'd like to share and anything about lure building for us junkies ;D
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wow excellent
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Hi Eddy!
Merry Xmas and happy plug building ;)
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scott happy holidays to you and your family...looks like we got a white x-mas :) great looking fourms
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Hey Ed same to you and hope all your fish are large in 2010! When I get back next week I've got some plans for some new videos so stick around.
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just found this sight...happy holidays to all
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Ive been looking for a site just like this...gonna make a slew of plugs this winter for the next season and Saltys look great!
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Hi Salty,
Came to your site to order some building supplies and found your new site. Good luck with this, I look forward to learning from you and hopefully adding a few bits of information now and again.
Again Best of Luck
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Salty,
Great Idea with the forum...
did very well on the plugs this year
Thanks
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Looking forward to helping somehow and learning a lot!---LOUIE ;D ;D 8)
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Glad to registered. Love the kits and have been spreading the word to everyone I know to check out the site. All the best to everyone in the coming New Year
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Happy New Year to all, I just registered, came on the site because I wanted to try to send Scott some pictures of what I did with some of his great kits. Now I just have to figure out how to do that.
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say!!! salty great idea, good forum...while shopping at your site i see you added that big wobbler( jitterbug) now thats gona hit the surf in Jersey for sure i ordered 2 plus im in... this site is just what i needed....thanks!!........................the handyman
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hi, first post on these boards, but not the first time on the website :), great website, very helpfull and has helped me build some of my best plugs ;D
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Welcome Striperman! Thanks for the positive comments!
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Welcome Striperman! Thanks for the positive comments!
thanx, and good both at the show on saturday at the coliseum ;D picked up alot from your both ;D
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thanks for the business. We'll be back down there but in Philly the last weekend of the month.
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how did you like the show btw?
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how did you like the show btw?
i personally liked the show :), first year i whent to this one after hearing that they made it alot better and i would definetly go again 8)
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Just got back from the expo in Wustah. I have seen Salty's plugs around for a few years now and have only used a few of them. I got to looking around and saw the lure kits and though it would be a great way of easing the pain of waiting for the spring migration. I was wondering if some one could tell me what are the must haves in my tool box for building these lures. I cannot wait to start building these. Oh and not only did I get two awesome lure kits but my son got hooked up with a nice homemade chocolate bass.
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welcome BIGLOU...............mmmm chocolate stripers..........well if your just starting out on kits a good pair of dikes roundnose pliers, splitring pliers, channellocks for bending hook eyes closed, some guys use knipex pliers, watch saltys vid on how to bend the threw wire for the tail hook, devcon 5min epoxy, a good woodsealer[waterlox marine or zinnser sanding sealer] primer, spray paint, or airbrush and paint,......i use flexcoat two part or devcon 30min epoxies and i spin my finished plugs on a rod dryer to prevent sags........but once the addiction takes over will discuss the heavey duty tools..............building plugs is a good father/son project good luck and welcome to the forum. :)
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Couldn't have said it better than Handy. Handy your hired :)
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thanks salt!!
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Awesome. Thanks for the info. I gotta go pick up a few of these things mostly the paint and epoxy. My son is 2 so I will have a few year to try to learn as much as i can about building lures before I show him. I'm sure I will have plenty of questions so I will be on her allot. Thanks again.
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oh God I hope there some stripers left for me. welcome by the way :)
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hay say as i recall numbnuts you said last year you had a stash under the seat of you truck for on the way home from the somerset show.....prolly all melted into a big COW FLOP unless you devoured them before you got home...........and forgot your wifes chair at the show :D
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Great site.. More videos please... Aspiring builder looking for visuals.
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What would you like videos on? I'm not a video person or a public speaker but if you can tell me what you'd like to see I'll work on it.
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WELCOME BUZZARD :sofa:
LOL
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Thanks for the welcome words. I appreciate it. I an new to wooden lure making having made just two last season, but have become more interested and active so far this season which is approaching us here in Marblehead MA. My objective in taking up the art of lure making is to use the materials, techniques, and tools resident in my shop. I am a carpenter specializing in the restoration of antique wooden windows and doors so I have some basics well down already. But this lure making is challenging and I look forward to learning much from this site.
At first I was somewhat intimidated by the fine detail, equipment and techniques I saw necessary to produce such beautiful lures that I see people make. Then I said "What the hell?" and aimed at making "classic" lures as simple as possible using simple materials and simple techniques. I guess you could say I'm just a simple minded guy.
So I have proceeded without a lathe (I can make squares round), an airbrush (I use rattle cans), and none of the paraphernalia like clamps, rollers, etc. Just keeping it simple. Last season I made two plugs, one dark for night time fishing (my favorite), and one yellow for day. Both worked well in the water, caught as many fish as purchased plugs, and with repairs are still here. Both made with screw eyes, rattle paint, glitter, but good hooks. I caught some nice fish on these two lures and am impressed with how well they held up and performed. There is a picture of The Dark Knight and Tweety Bird so I named them. Both made from Oak, linseed oil, glitter spray, color and clear coat.
After the fall season in '17 I started to fiddle with making shapes using my shop tools and studying better techniques and hardwares to use. A lot of reading what others have done has led me to make about thirty plugs so far again just using simple techniques and materials but respecting basic shapes, colors and rigging concepts and proven combinations. I haven't yet ventured into the fine detail that more accomplished makers display like scales, vents, lips, etc. I hope to learn some more about those refinements here from more experienced makers.
I am putting some pics of my progress to date here hoping to get some comments that will help me to do better and hopefully be able to produce some of the beautiful work I see posted. Thanks again for the welcome and I look forward to killing the stripers in the near future.
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Good job on your objective Patrick. It looks like your having fun and learning at the same time!
You have good colors there, red/white head is deadly as are the greens and yellows you have on the others.
Make gills easily by taking a sharp knife and cutting a slit in a piece of milk carton. Lay it over the lure and lightly spray over the milk carton and remove. You can repeat on the other side and theres your gills.
"chicken scratch" color is done the same way but poking holes in plastic and spraying through that. You can heat it with a hair dryer and bend to a nice shape too...
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Numbnuts doesn't fish :sofa: :)
Hi Jimmy ;)