Lathe turned fishing lures
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You arent actually goin to fish with those? Those are awesome!!
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I'm not much of a fisherman but those look ready to dip in the water! Have you ever caught anything with a lure you have made?
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Treecycle Hardwoods said:
Yep, all the time. Especially in local farm ponds.
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Nice looking wood...and the finish is beautiful as well. Maple?
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Yes Mickey, maple. One curly, one burl, one crotch-just some scraps I had laying around.
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Wow, that's some serious grain there Daren. Nice work for sure.
Hey Ken...good to see you here. Looks like this is gonna be a good place. And the lures sure are nice...if I were a fish, I'd bite:P
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I found another picture, these are from a few years back, I have not made any lures for a good while.
loving them Daren!
Hey Daren, you're a man of many talents !
I assume those things hold up well in the water since it doesn't seem like you'd go to all that effort if they're not gonna last, huh?
I assume those things hold up well in the water since it doesn't seem like you'd go to all that effort if they're not gonna last, huh?
Can't speak for Daren, but I have a customer in NJ that buys a box of FBE lure blanks several times a year and makes them for him self & his fishing club buddies and they swear by them for large mouth bass especially. He's sent me quite a few lurs I should post them. I did poist a few over at WWT but it's been a while ago.
My customer makes them by hand. Look ma! No lathe! kind of guy so I suspect they hold up enough to be worth the trouble of hand carving.
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My customer makes them by hand. Look ma! No lathe! kind of guy so I suspect they hold up enough to be worth the trouble of hand carving.
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I put 4 coats (dipped) of spar marine varnish on the lures, so far so good.
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Those are really cool lures.
Daren very nice work. Have alot of big leaf maple here. Theres a Randle wood place i go to killer lace .I'm addicted to maple those are pretty. Rick
I've never tried fishing lures, but those look outstanding!
Never thought of turning fishing lures and I'm a fisherman. Thats where my user name comes from. I'll have to give it a go. Those all look nice!! Almost too nice to actually use!!
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Daren said:
Picture I found on a disk when I was looking for something else this morning.
I really like those. I'm going to try some of the chug/popper style for my FIL to use in his farm pond.
I'm going to try some of the chug/popper style for my FIL to use in his farm pond.
Nice fish daren. After you started this thread my local pbs station began airing a wood turning show. One of the shows was about turning lures. It was pretty cool they went into how to airbrush and every thing.