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whittler1, The use of a router, together with some sort of mechanism to move the router or/and wood blank, is one option being considered. In addition to the use of routers, some of the YouTube videos exhibit a small saw for the cutting function in the associated make-it-yourself lure-making machines.

Skunk master, Thank you for the reference. However, the lumenlab.com link does not appear to work at this time.

Regarding "... not sure you could buy the machine ..." - the idea; here, is to make the machine much like some others have done as seen in their YouTube videos.

There are a variety of YouTube videos that show homemade devices capable of cutting wooden fishing lure bodies from blank wood stock. Some of the homemade automated devices use a master lure body - the shape that is to be copied - mechanically linked to a lathe, saw, or other cutting mechanism that traces the profile of the master body such that its shape is replicated in the blank wood stock. This post requests your experience with making wooden fishing lures via any automated approach that involves equipment costing no more than $2k.

Thank you for the welcome.

The forum administrators; since they can see the account details, will immediately understand the wheeler reference in the topic title. The rest - prehaps it can be a tiny morsel of information for later discovery, if it is not already obvious.