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magicmusky

Posted 4/23/2014 6:13 PM (#708403)
Subject: homemade dawgs

Posts: 33

Hi Guys, I'm new to the site, but I've been browsing and lurking for quite some time. I've been impressed with the amount of talent on this forum as far as people producing their own lures. I've been making some of my own wood lures for a couple years, but decided to give the soft plastic lures a try. So far it has been pretty fun. Through trial and error I've ended up melting down most of my original casts, trying to perfect the finish product. I'm getting pretty close, so I decided to post a couple of my latest attempts. Let me know what you guys think, and if you have any helpful criticism.

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Simple Man

Posted 4/23/2014 7:11 PM (#708426 - in reply to #708403)
Subject: RE: homemade dawgs

Posts: 136

Very Cool work!

mastical

Posted 4/23/2014 7:58 PM (#708435 - in reply to #708403)
Subject: Re: homemade dawgs

Posts: 568

Location: Lake St Clair

id buy it

magicmusky

Posted 4/23/2014 11:14 PM (#708486 - in reply to #708403)
Subject: Re: homemade dawgs

Posts: 33

Thanks guys! I'm still working some of the bugs out. The nice thing about the big plastics is that they're such a forgiving bait as far as tuning and getting them to swim right, but I still need to play around with the weight a little bit. I may need to make a new mold. I used plaster of paris, but it's too hard to seal to prevent bubbles.

ToothTamer

Posted 4/24/2014 6:01 AM (#708498 - in reply to #708403)
Subject: Re: homemade dawgs

Posts: 311

Location: Lake St.Clair

I really like that top one good work!
I've always been interested in making my own soft plastics but seems like a ton of trial and error and wasted product...

muskie tamer

Posted 4/24/2014 8:22 AM (#708514 - in reply to #708403)
Subject: Re: homemade dawgs

Posts: 411

Location: Waconia,MN

Looks like a cross between a bulldawg and a twinkie, nice work.

Zib

Posted 4/24/2014 8:48 AM (#708522 - in reply to #708403)
Subject: RE: homemade dawgs

Posts: 1405

Location: Detroit River

^{Nice job. They look like UBoats.}

magicmusky

Posted 4/24/2014 9:54 AM (#708533 - in reply to #708403)
Subject: Re: homemade dawgs

Posts: 33

Oddly enough, I hadn't even heard of uboats or twinkies up until a couple weeks ago after I had my prototype made. I will admit, they are similar looking. It would be interesting to see how they swim next to each other once I get these dialed in. When I started, I didn't really have any sort of presentation in mind, I just wanted to see if I could do it!

As far as wasted product, alumisol/plastisol is pretty forgiving stuff. If I don't like how it came out of the mold, I just cut it up and remelt it for another one. Very little waste in that sense.

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