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I'm about to build my first Krank Baits from wood. As I await the arrival of my custom duplicated "Albesia Klone" Bodies, I wanted to go ahead and cut out some lips that I designed for the Kranks. I just thought that I would share my process with the TU members. Some of us (including me) may not have a band saw, so this technique is one alternative.

First I drew a diagram of the lip that I wanted to use on my Krank Baits, I sent it to the guy that's cutting my Krank Bait blanks, and he sent me this PDF file of lip templates.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/1005101748.jpg

I cut out a pattern very carefully with a pair of scissors and transferred it to a piece of ridged card board.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/papercardboardlip.jpg

I then used the card board template and transferred the pattern onto a piece of 1/8" thick lexan (my preferred lip material).

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/1005101747.jpg

I then used a pair of Malco snips (made for cutting vinal siding)to cut out my lexan template.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/1005101803.jpg

I then used a medium grit drum sanding wheel on my dremel tool to carefully sand down my permanent lexan lip pattern to match my original template from the paper (PDF File) cutout.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/1005101753a.jpg

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/1005101752.jpg

Using my lexan pattern, I traced out 6 lip patterns onto a strip of the lexan sheet that is a little wider than the lip itself, to allow room for rough cutting the lips with snips.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/1005101750.jpg

I then rough cut the lips just to the outside of my template lines.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/1005101814.jpg

And then, I used the drum sanding wheel on my dremel tool to sand down each lip to match my lexan master lip.

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq278/HAWGHUNNA/1005101854.jpg

Hope this helps someone.

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@ HAWGHUNNA

Thanks for sharing your work , ..........I'm not too fond of cutting my 3 millimetres polycarbonate with snips , as often little cracks evolve which would lead from the cut towards the center of lip . These are usually not very long , so with leaving enough "flesh" on the lips outline , I could afterwards still grind the lip to proper shape on my disc sander showing no flaws no more .

Maybe , my ordinary sheet metal snips are not as suited for this particular cutting job ??

But still I prefer cutting out the lips with a jig saw , that has a piece of a coarse metal bandsaw blade attached(fine toothed jig saw blades always bind into the hot polycarbonate(heated by the friction of the sawblade).

greetz , diemai :yay:

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Take a look at Lincoya's excellent video from this years TU meet. This is how I do all my lips now but watch them fingers.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tutest

Thanks for the reminder Phil. I have only recently acquired a supply of lexan, only to discover that it is not pleasant to work with. The belt sander just makes a molten mess, once cleaned up, leaves an ugly chamfer. Once I have settled on a lip pattern, this is the way I will be proceeding.

WD40 to remove glue residue, would never have thought of that.

Anyone who hasn't seen them yet, the rest of the vids are worth viewing also.

Dave

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