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[Legendary Lures]

Check this out: The 3 inch cedar body is handcarved and hollow. It has rattles inside. The soft rubber legs and feet are the resdults of my first mold. I made the mode from water putty. Sat it on the furnace for a couple days to dry it out rather than baking it. Epoxy finish. The hook is on the back to make the lure more weedless, hide the hook from the fish and to keep the hook from interferring with the legs.

Comments welcome.

[siebler_custom_baits]

Pretty cool.

[redg8r]

Alright Larry!

Good to see you dabbling in some soft plastics!
good work.

[Art Brush]

Cool design. I'd like one in mallard or wood duck

[mangeboy79]

cool lure. the pikes here in sweden would love to put there teeth in that one! how did you attach the legs?

[Legendary Lures]

Thanks for the compliments. However, I'm having a problem with the soft rubber legs and feet. They keep falling off!

Here's the background info:

I drilled a hole into the duck body and it is slightly smaller in diameter than the top of the leg. I purposefully avoided coating the inside of the hole with Devcon. I did not put oil of any kind on the soft rubber parts. My mold is made of baked water putty and coated with Devcon diluted with alcohol. I didn't oil the mold.

I tried a super glue. One leg stayed on, the other fell off.

I tried Devcon two-part 5 minute epoxy. Both legs fell off, early squirted out of the holes.

What works to hold soft rubber to unpainted, uncoated wood?

BTW: Once I find out how to firmly attach the legs, I'll be making these little ducklings in other colors. I'll put a couple on eBay to try to establish a fair price and then put them on my website. So if you want one, please hang on a little while longer.

[finlander]

I have seen where someone will hang large Colorado blades underneath for the feet. I have thought of making these in the past. Wouldn't be that hard to do. One man builds these with feathers. Could not bring his website up. He has advertised in MuskyHunter magazine.

[Muskiefool]

Very cool Nice work

[nova]

Why don't you attach small corkscrew spring steel to the duck and just screw the legs on. That way if a leg gets damaged by a fish you can easily replace it. :idea: