Eye bin...

nastygunz · January 20, 2018, 09:37:34 PM

...whittlin me a fishin lure with my old timer pocket knife and a piece of an old broomhandle:

FinsnFur · January 21, 2018, 06:54:48 AM

Interesting.
Keep us updated with progress pics

nastygunz · January 21, 2018, 07:05:52 AM

Shes almost ready for paint!

nastygunz · January 23, 2018, 08:39:17 PM

I could sand it and make it smooth and perfect but I don't like that I like the rough handmade look with the carving marks still in it so someday 20 years from now someone will pick it up and say wow that is handmade.

Now I need to put the final high-gloss finishing coat on it and then put hooks on it and the line eye and the diving lip and that little beauty will be done

nastygunz · January 27, 2018, 04:30:27 PM

Next picture will be in a fishes mouth!

I made this Pike slayer over 20 years ago!

pitw · January 27, 2018, 06:47:00 PM

Looks like a great job to me.

The proof will be in the skillet.

Why the [L] did someone call it a skillet?

nastygunz · January 28, 2018, 05:18:13 AM

** be careful witch broom handle you cut into pieces for fishing lures

FinsnFur · January 28, 2018, 06:43:09 AM

Pretty rough looking compared to the perfect plastic they sell in todays world, but you know it'll work just as good.

nastygunz · January 28, 2018, 08:09:12 AM

I know, especially when I can buy those perfect plastic lures from China for $.99. Haha! It helps keep me occupied During these long ass winters! 👍

Dave · January 28, 2018, 08:37:40 AM

Nice! I like the hand carved look as opposed to the hollow plastic garbage. So much more rewarding and probably even talk just a little to that fish you just duped - "How do you like THAT! - You know, I made that meself"

nastygunz · January 28, 2018, 10:38:42 AM

I would like to see Huntncarve do one, hes an amazing artist!

HuntnCarve · January 28, 2018, 11:53:49 AM

Shucks! You just had to ask Nasty! LOL!

I did these a few years ago just to try my hand at making lures? I gave them all to Dave and our friend Tom. I'm with you on the Chinese lures. I put the whole project on the back burner. But I did learn a lot from watching lure making videos. -Through wires, drop loops, wire wrapping, making eye loops....

HuntnCarve
Dave

nastygunz · January 28, 2018, 02:50:11 PM

Wowzer! Those squid ones look like striper assassination lures! Veryyyyy nice👍👍👍

FinsnFur · January 28, 2018, 07:50:46 PM

Daaaaang...Dave

HaMeR · January 28, 2018, 10:31:26 PM

Hope you put a rattle in it nasty!! They sure won't be able to get it on their sonar with all those flat panels on the sides. Looks like a Stealth Shadrap!!

nastygunz · January 28, 2018, 10:57:02 PM

I personally think that rattling thing is just a selling gimmick by the manufacturers. I have never caught a fish yet that I heard rattling

I did try to put a rattle inside a number #24 black gnat fly once, didn't have much luck with that either

I try to avoid buying lures with the rattles in them but they are kind of the rage these days.

HaMeR · January 29, 2018, 07:11:52 AM

Like everything else in my tackle box. Some days you just wish you had a box full of a certain lure!!

Or in Jim's case a frying pan full of them!!

Okanagan · January 29, 2018, 10:45:15 AM

I sure like that slightly lumpy look, like a scarred bruiser of a prey fish. My guess is that it will either work better as a bait or turn fish off. It is different enough from the perfect smooth ones that fish will notice. Hope you get a side by side test this spring.

nastygunz · January 29, 2018, 06:54:00 PM

After spending countless hours at the CAD table designing it I also have it so I can pop that diving lip off it and slap a wide lip on it and turn it into a jitterbug too! 👍😇😉

nastygunz · January 29, 2018, 06:57:19 PM

I think my next one I'm going to tackle is making a bass fishing snake, check some of them out on YouTube kind of neat.