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| So who is making there own knock-off Kraemer Brothers Revolution bucktails? I have made about a half dozen so far and they look great and run awesome. With all due respect the price of the originals is just comical. There is less actual material involved than a standard double bladed bucktail. |
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Location: MN | Where are you getting the blade? Or are you cutting them out yourself? |
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Location: NE Ohio | ^^^^^^^^^ YEP, the blade is the only problem. |
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| Just cutting them out myself nothing fancy at all and with hand tools. Luckily I am not needing to make 100s of them. |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | What material are you using to make the blade? Also could you post some pics of your work because I'm intrested in making my own aswell. Thanks! |
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| I haven't drills the hole in this blade yet or bent it but I think you get the idea. The tape is 3M reflective DOT from Amazon.
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Yep!
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| So what material did you make the blades out of? Spring steel? |
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| After a quick impatient search I settled on a stainless steel kick plate. I am sure something cheaper and better exists but that's what i went with. |
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| nice,personally i prefer to pay 40 bux for that instead of a dusdon that is not innovative at all,minus the skull head |
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Location: Gilberts IL/Rhinelander WI | .
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Location: Waukee, IA | I made one with an aluminum blade. I made a post titled "aluminum bow tie blade bucktail" a couple weeks ago about it with a picture. It got me a 44.5" muskie on its first outing. The marabou I put on it looks bad as it's scavenged from a tie I did years ago.
The blade itself works pretty well but I think I'll back off from 1/8" aluminum and go with 1/16". I also want to try rounding off the leading edge a little for better hydrodynamics. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Those look great! Good job. |
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