Oak Sebile knock off

[Fishwhittler]

Oak, foiled, purple Krylon X-metals paint, exaggerated hump.

Let me know what you think.

Ben

[.dsaavedra.]

looks great! you're good with rattle cans man. i think the hump looks a little silly though lol ;D

[Fishwhittler]

Thanks! I got the idea for the hump from pics of spawning salmon.

[ToledoEF]

that is fricken sweet! The hump seems kind of odd, but I think it will catch fish!

[BIG M]

Ben the bait looks great.   I bet you had a great time carving/sanding the oak.

[ToledoEF]

Is the oak bait heavy? I have a couple musky baits I made from maple since it was a nice hard wood!

[whittler]

Neat bait Ben. Oak, you must be a glutton for punishment.

[Stringjam]

Very cool!

[bnwcrankin]

''THE HUMPER''... lol.. very cool man..!

[ABLE2DISABLE1]

Peacock Bass, males get the hump,Paint color is great, except for the front end collision,left one of his meal tickets high.The knot.Ram Tough, do you drive a Chevy.

[Fishwhittler]

Thanks guys.

Actually, carving it really wasn't that bad (I think I got a softer piece of oak). It was much harder than pine but by no means impossible. The reason I chose oak for this bait is that it doesn't require much weighting to get it to sink and I wanted a sinking bait. I was surprised with this one though; it floats! I figured it would sink as I built another oak bait before this one and it sinks like a rock, but this one just sits on top. I guess I need to weight it more next time or use a denser piece of oak.

ToledoEF, It's heavy for it's size (about 7") but it's lighter than one of my larger 8" pine swimbaits.

[wickyman]

I would probably get some of those stick on weights, from like a hobby shop, and gauge what amount of weight you need, and then drill it out in the front, to get it to sink at the rate you want.   

I am making a swimbait out of cedar right now, just started last night, all carved by hand, with a dual blade buck knife.  It's coming out very well, the desired shape it about there, but carving it has been extremely tiring, since the wood is so dense.

I think that if you get darker oaks, or even walnut in its younger stages, that you can get the sinking rate you want.  I would use black oak, or even an english walnut to carve it out.  It's going to take a bit more to get those to carve, as they are both some of the harder woods in the same genre.  Anything is possible, if you just believe! 

[Rebel Angler]

great lookin lure!