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I then use Durham's water putty to fill the remaining hole, and file/sand to shape.
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I drill and glue in the small (1/32 oz or 1/16 oz) bullet shaped worm weights along the bottom of my lures. I space them as needed to get the best orientation and action in the water.
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Good idea. Just started turning, carving and painting my own River Runts and Vamps. Search "Carving the face of a river runt" to see my tutorial. Search my gallery, or search on the hard baits gallery for "runt" to see the accompanying pictures. Each pic also has a description of that step. Thanks to everyone who have and are contributing to my learning. Mark
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I went ahead and took pictures of each step in my process and posted them in the gallery in the hard baits section. Each pic has a description of the process. You can find them by searching for "runt" or looking in my gallery (member name "markbxr400"). While there seems to be quite a number of steps, the whole process takes me less than 5 minutes per lure, and I get fairly consistent results from lure to lure. These lures dive well, and action is very good. I've caught dozens of speckled trout and redfish on these. I hope this helps. Mark
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The finished lure after painting and epoxy. -
Final product. -
wrap a piece of cloth type sandpaper around a dowel, and smooth the two sides of the nose. -
This is what the nose looks like after the rasp. -
Another pic of using the rasp to smooth and final shape the nose. -
Using a rounded rasp (I use a Dragon file), lightly continue to shape and smooth the two sides of the nose. -
Profile view of carved nose. -
This is how the nose looks after carving. -
Now, using the bent skew chisel, continue working the two sides of the nose to the new top centerline. -
Redraw the top centerline along the new flat area just created in the last step. -
Using your chisel, carve right down the top line to start creating a curve nose.