Crankbait I've been working on

[Siebert Outdoors]

So hows it look for a first timer?

[Steven Ladner]

1st time?! Looks pretty dang good, great work gman  

[Siebert Outdoors]

1st time?! Looks pretty dang good, great work gman

Yup first time.  I've got a good mentor though.  Thanks Big M.

[Steven Ladner]

I would think so after seeing the awesome cranks he puts out. All I can do is paint, I'm not sure if I could make the actual bait itself

[BIG M]

GMAN, that bait looks good enough for me to fish, you must have a heck of a teacher.    Now get some paint on that bait, they don't like to be naked.

[Fishwhittler]

That looks great! Your first try is miles better than mine was. This one (the bottom one) wasn't my first, but it was made the same way. I took a stick, whittled the bark away, bored a hole through the stick, inserted a wire, and colored it with Sharpie pens.

[islandbass]

G,

That looks awesome. How did you go about rounding the edges? Let me know if you need some feather tails.   8-)

[Siebert Outdoors]

sand paper and a carving knife.  I like making them.

Will do on the tails IB.

[islandbass]

Thanks! for some reason, I was thinking it was going to be a bit more complicated than that. I cut out some shapes out of balsa and I will "round" them out per your instructions.

Any time on the tail feathers.