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well i changed my plans a little bit to make it easier for me. here is what i ended up with (i havent put the weights in yet): with the other side of the head attached:

thanks here is my plan for the inside of the bait. the two lines are where the chain will run, the blocky thingies at the front and back are gonna be where the wires for hook hangers will go. and the weights will be placed where they are. they are steel bearings by the way.

it looks good for a sketch. i have only one problem with it, fins dont grow out of gills

well after i figured out how to change the blade on my new coping saw (that made me feel like a retard) i cut the joints on the bait. to my suprise it worked out EXTREMELY well. i really couldnt ask for better considering this was my first time with a coping saw (besides a few practice cuts on scrap wood). i found it was VERY easy to cut in a straight, vertical line, and if i did get off track i would notice it quick and just get back in line. anyway, here is the butchered bait after that i ran into problem numero uno. the way i planned on shaping the joints was two V', like this << so that the point of one end fits in the open part of the other end, making the "recieving" side wider than the other end. the reason this didnt work out is beacause i made the fins and gills too close to where i was going to cut the bait to make joints. if i continued with what i had in mind, i would have cut into the fins and gills. so i made a very quick change of plans, and left the inside of the joints flat and made the edges very round. this wasnt a big problem. all it means is that now i have to make my joints spaced out just a little bit more. anyway, here are the sanded, rounded joints: its starting to look like a swimbait now

haha! duplicate post from tackleunderground!

ok i got it. it just took a lot of pressure to bend the frame so the blade would fit.

but the blade is shorter than the length of the frame.

just bought a coping saw and i cant figure out how to put a new blade on it!

got some fins put on:

got a little work done on it this morning. i drew in the gill detail last night and went a head and carved it out with the dremel this morning. here is what i have done: under the chin: head on:

ok but the thing is, after i DVD shirnk it, there are a bunch of video_ts files and audio_ts files, i would think i'd have to get them all into one file in order to put it together as a whole on the Zune. is this correct?

5" tip to tail, 2" top to bottom, 3/4" thick

thanks. lets hope it stays that way : i think im gonna have to cut the joints vertically instead of at a slant in order to provide for maximum wiggle room.

okay guys, follow along here... i am gonna make a lipless swimbait and document my progress here. whether it works or not i do not know. but here goes... i started out with a piece of 5"x7"x3/8" basswood plywood. i cut it in half and sketched out the shape of my swimbait on one half. then i roughed out that shape and then did some refining to get it how i wanted it. i then traced it on the other half, roughed it out with a hand saw and used rubber cement to temporarily attatch it to the other half. then i went in with a dremel and refined both halves so they were exactly equal. here are the two halves, glued together, and refined (still pretty rough): leaving them together, i rounded off all the corners, tapered the head and tail with the dremel, and then did some hand sanding with 80 grit paper. i also marked where i will cut the joints. side view: head on: tail view: later tonight or tomorrow morning i will cut the joints and shape them. to be continued...

lots of places around here sell them true value sells the most of them. they are actually VERY common in my area because i live on the chesapeake bay and these are a very popular bait for big stripers.

after i have ripped a DVD to my computer via DVDShrink, does anybody know what i have to do in order to play the movie on my computer? i ultimatley want to put the movie on my Zune.

just kidding... i got bored and made some playdoh and decided to sculpt with it and this is what my mind came up with :

hi, just wondering how waterproof those hard cardboard rod shipping tubes are. how would they hold up strapped to the roof of a car that is driving thru rain? thanks!

if the coontail is as thick as you say then you could crawl anything that is weedless overtop of it and bass would hit.

http://www.zune.net/en-US/setup

does anyone still use these tackleboxes? http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_30067_100011009_100000000_100011000_100-11-9 im sure all of our dad's had one (mine did, so did my grandpa), but i was just wondering if anyone still uses them. they seem kinda out dated...

original bags (which in the case of *** is just sandwich bags) in the deep side pockets of my tacklebag. only downside to this is i can only cary a few packs with me. thats not even much of a downside because i usually only use two or three styles of worm per trip.

how do you make them all so identical in shape?

arial based fireworks are illegal here, but ground based fireworks were just legalized a few years ago. all we can have are hand held sparklers and ground based fountains which just sit there and shoot sparks up.....boring! we cant even have bottle rockets or fire crackers!!! but im going to a minor league baseball game (new team, Blue Crabs, stadium is 15 min from my house and we're getting free tickets) and there will be a fireworks show there.