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Swimbait Scales ?

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If you are really wanting to "carve" them then lay out a diamond grid on your bait.  Use a flexible straight edge (heavy paper, cereal box strip, etc..) use a pencil to draw your lines. Take a dremel and appropriate bits.  A diamond V wheel or something similar in ceramcut and trace your lines to cut a diamond grid.  Then go back with a round ceramacut, ruby round, etc.. and ease the back point on each diamond, rounding it slighting to give  a scale like pattern.  

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You can take the same approach with carving knifes. Just lay out your pattern with very light cuts and get a tight crisp v cut.  Then edge the tips and some sanding with a fine grit paper.  The issue is the time it takes.  

 

Depending on the paint scheme you can also just draw scales on with a pencil.  James Fliger demonstrates how he does this in his book Carving Freshwater Fish.   Bob Berry's books and Ed Walicki are also very common more popular books that show scale methods but will need to modify to fit what you want to do.  Burning in scales usually the way to go if really wanting to get into doing scale work.

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