HAWGHUNNA

Very nice video. I thouroghly enjoyed the tutorial. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you, kind sir. Some learning curves were taken in that first batch, so maybe I'll do better on the next run. Got a Smallie, Perch, and Striper on the slate for next.

Ah-Hah .... I believe that you're correct Mark! Not sure how I missed that

The kidz these dayz are simply amazing! I wish that I could attempt catching fish as much as I'm out having to bang nails. I pm'd PBB about some eyes. Also, I looked at Mr. Boggs site ..... he has "raised" flat eyes that caught my attention, but your suggestion drew some interest as well. Thanks. I posted pics of my first school of bait fish "IMPOSTORS" in the gallery. Still not the quality that I was hoping for, guess I'm due for a camera upgrade ..... or photography lesson . Anyhoo, heres a link .... http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/gallery/category/8-hard-baits/

Are you using the liquid rubber as a seal coat for wooden baits? If so, what type of results have you gotten ..... and what type of paint adheres to the rubber coating?

Thanks Big Bass Man! Jr. brought the camera in with him tonight, we have a lot of pics to take within the next couple of days. He activated my web site on line a lil' pre maturely (before we had a chance to shoot color chart pics for several made, and unmade pages ), but he is excited about building the site and couldn't wait. I should have a 6 pack of pics of my first airbrush and foto phinish jobz up tomorrow eve. I just received some blank stencil sheets tonight, so I will be playing around with the ole Testors' airbrush quite a bit in the near future. But I'm really anxious to break in the Iwata soon as well, however, I have a lot of r/d to do on airbrushing yet. I should have skipped the Soft Plastics, and wire baits trend that took up the last few years of my spare time, and just jumped straight into the hard baits (I'm really liking this). After all I've been a carpenter for 30 plus years ..... go figure.

I've only just begun with kranks, but have not had any reaction as of yet .... with the blue 3M painter's tape.

Vodkaman, I would have bet the farm, that you would have replied .....

Thanks guys, I have a Blue Gill, Long Ear Sun Fish, , Black Crappy, and Baby Bass (Spot) DCVRZ and a shallow running krank bait dressed up in Shell Cracker ready for top coat. I will post up better pics soon. I'm really enjoying trying to match and blend in the colors on these baits. I am being forced to use a Testor's air brush with compressed air in a can at this time, that I bought years ago to paint my son's pine wood derby at this time. I have an Iwata Eclipse, but I don't have a compressor yet. Can't wait to upgrade! I may even actually try my hand at painting a few in days to come, if I can tear myself away from the photo finishes. I may be forced into insetting some 3/D taxidermy eyes into the baits, but flats would be better ..... my front ballast is in the eye socket position

Oh yeah, by the way .... Does anyone have a link for flat, real look fish eyes?

These are a couple of my first lip-less krank bait builds. I would like to give props to Vodkaman, he did a tremendous job of duplicating the blanks that I was wanting to work with for my entire line of wooden krank baits (Albesia Klones). Next, I would like to thank Husky for sharing his photo finishing technique. Mark Poulson, Big Bass Man, and airbrushextreme were also gracious enough to answer a few questions via pm. I appreciate the help guys. I was very fortunate on my first lip-less krank bait proto type. It swam great, and had an awesome shimmy on the drop (much like the Strike King Red Eye Shad). Although I did not gauge my ballast locations according to the SKRES, I did look at and gauge the ballast locations (somewhat) according to another of my favorite rattle baits. This model will be called The Lip-Less DCVR. It drops semi slowly @ about 6" per second. I am also testing a shallow running, and medium running Krank bait from these same bodies that were cut from albesia wood. All of my initial kranks will be silent baits, as the bodies (blanks) are of the one piece variety. I'm thinking of adding a drum type jig rattle, by drilling a hole (the size of the rattle) completely through some of the blanks and fill in the void area after the rattle is inserted, with bondo for a rattling series. Here is a poor phone camera peek at the Threzzard Fin Shad, and Wyt Crappy .....I will upload some quality pics to the gallery once my son brings the camera back home. http://s455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/?action=view&current=shaddcvr-1.jpg http://s455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/?action=view&current=WhiteCrappie-Lip-LessDCVR-1.jpg Thanks again for the help guys.

Sorry, can't figure out how to delete this box

As someone once suggested on this forum, your body on the back section needs to be thicker than the belly section ....... a V shape, if you view the bait from the front. I just built my first 6, and 2 of them should be ready for pics. I will start a tread soon ...... Called Lipless DCVRs (Deceivers). They swim great, and have even better action on the drop (which is what I was keying on. Mark's suggestion, along with the wedge shaped effect should cure your problems.

I'm still green at the top coat stuff, but D2T has been satisfactory so far. Try these fine folks .... http://www.impact-mfg.com/store/

Very interesting!! Is the second coat also dry after one hour? And have you been using this method for any length of time.