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| For those of you who have made your own glide baits, etc from wood what kind of wood did you use? Where do recommend buying it? Do you buy them fairly close to the size of the finished product or do you have to take off a lot of the wood yourself from beginning to end? THanks.
Andy
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Location: Freedom, WI | Lots of choices depending what you want to do with it. The heavier the wood the less lead you add, but with lighter wood you can put the weight were you want it (thats the hard part). I buy mine from a local saw mill and cut to size (boards as close to the size that I need as I can get). Were you buy your wood should be able to tell you weights of the wood. The grain of the wood also makes a difference on how the bait will work sometimes also. There will be lots of trial and error so do not give up after the first try, little things make a difference. |
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| If you let me know the the exact type of glide bait your planning on making I may be able to give u a bunch of help.
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Location: Anchorage | Any type of cedar is always an option because it resists water/rot so well. It's also pretty easy to work with. I've even used hickory for baits that I don't want to rise fast and it works, but is very difficult to work with.
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Location: Pound, WI | I have used White Ash, but that, too, is hard to work. If you want a jerk-type bait that you can turn on your lathe, it will work pretty well. I cut and sanded mine down right on the lathe and then sealed and painted it.
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Location: Grafton, WI | I have been using hard maple on mine. It's a good type of wood to turn on a lathe. I will be experimenting with some cherry wood I got from a lumber mill this summer. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Hard Maple is a good glider material. Basswood and Pine for surface lures, and Hickory, really tightly grained, is great material for jerk/gliders too, but tough to work with. I made a couple lures out of birch, and found that to be nice stuff to work with too. |
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| Rule of thumb.Hard wood -jerbaits Softwood- crankbaits. |
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Location: Freedom, WI | To expand on what Sworral said about Birch it is nice to work with but make sure you pay attention to the dark wood (center of tree) it is heavier than the rest so put that part where you want it heavier. Zelasoski out of Antigo said I should try beach (they use it and hard Maple for handles). So I took a old wheel barrow handle and tried it (think it was beach), it was pretty good to work with too. Might have to try more of it.
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Location: Holly, MI | Instead of just using paint to seal the lures I've made, I have coated them in epoxy. I have a slow rpm motor to turn rods while drying and lures work out well on this as well. No runs and smooth even coat of rock hard finish. Eliminates the problem of soft woods getting wet also. |
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