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| Hi all, I searched and searched and couldn’t find any large sized propellers. So I decided to design my own and have a batch laser cut. They are just under 3” in diameter. It’s kind of a hybrid design that has the width of a globe blade with the classic style of a pointed propeller. I cup the blades and then mount them on a rivet bearing for smooth spinning and some metal on metal squeak. So far I’ve made some toppers, flaptail toppers, and some sub surface countdown propeller baits.
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 topper a.jpg (92KB - 521 downloads)
topper b.jpg (90KB - 509 downloads)
topper c.jpg (92KB - 472 downloads)
Flaptail topper a.jpg (93KB - 481 downloads)
Flaptail topper b.jpg (93KB - 476 downloads)
Flaptail topper c.jpg (93KB - 489 downloads)
subsurface prop baits.jpg (93KB - 524 downloads)
subsurface prop baits b.jpg (93KB - 489 downloads)
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Location: Southwest PA | Gorgeous! |
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Location: Moses Lake, WA | Beautiful work Mike. Innovation seems to be your middle name. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Those look so evil! Beautiful work of high quality as always Mike. |
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| I highly recommend getting one of Mike's baits if you have the chance! I just got my double flaptail from him and it's an amazing looking and running bait. I hope to get it beat up to make it look even better! Haha! |
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Location: Jane Lew, WV | My goodness. That flaptail is SEXY. |
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| Awesome work. |
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| Thanks for the compliments guys. Here’s another flaptail topper I just finished up. They haven’t heard one like this before
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Flaptail topper d.jpg (92KB - 487 downloads)
Flaptail topper e.jpg (86KB - 434 downloads)
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| Awesome work Mike! |
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| That firetiger one is very cool. Awesome job! |
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Location: oswego, il | Those all look incredible. I have made a few with screw eyes. I used a cup washer for the front blade, nothing on the back which lets it klink and klang on the screw eye. |
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| Amassing, I've never seen such attention to detail like these before.
If I owned any of these I'm afraid they would only site in a display box
on my mantel. Any chance you have video of any in action?
Again, simply amassing. |
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