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  1. Maine
    Any you fellas plug builders?
  2. Plugs and Plug Building
    Can any one make a 10 '' cigar shaped plug body . My lathe is tiny I can only do up to 5'' . Sure could use a couple . Let me Know in the post Or P.m. me a price , trade or something . I make a pretty decent jigging slab amongst a host of other things .
  3. Plugs and Plug Building
    Anyone know anything about the Central Machinery 5 speed, 1/2 HP Bench Top Wood Lathe #65345. Habror Frieght has it on sale @ $199. Wondering how good this wood be for making plugs.
  4. Plugs and Plug Building
    well as i see their are tons of knowledgeable plug builders here .... what am i going to use to seal the wood? and were can i find it? and any other advise about the subject
  5. Hudson River
    I have been told by more than a few..If you plan on plugging the upper Hudson "Your just gonna get yourself tired." "They won't hit plugs they can't see, they go to the scent" I was also told the fish behavior is different than being in salt. They are in spawning mode and eat to continue moving...
  6. Plugs and Plug Building
    Can anybody help here? Preferably South of Boston all the way down to the cape. Looking for a good selection of different types. Thanks. Chiefmurph
  7. The Sports Bar
    For the record, Luck (6-foot-4, 235 pounds) outweighs Wright (6-0, 185) by a good 50 pounds.
  8. Buy - Sell - Trade
    I am looking for any old plugs that my son can revive and use. Kind of a father son project to get him interested in fishing. I have been laid off for a while so price is wicked important. Any help would be greatly appreciated.:icon_smile::icon_smile::icon_smile: High Tides and Tight Lines Mike
  9. Plugs and Plug Building
    I recently was able to buy out an old time lure maker who has retired. He used to make wood blanks, under contract, for many of the major lure manufacturersincluding Gilmore, Fred Arbogast, and Creek Chub to name a few. I have a few of his Pikie Minnow blanks now...but those are not for sale...
  10. Plugs and Plug Building
    Ive been looking around and having trouble finding alaskan yellow cedar, western red cedar, maybe some maple or birch, cant remember where i used to order wood from would appreciate it if any one could point me in a good direction ! :thu:
  11. Plugs and Plug Building
    Just wondering what is the best or wood of preferance for turning or carving. What are the advantages of thes and diadvantages. Right know I'm just messing around with some hand carves, I had used maple as I had a bunch of left over pieces from a custom closet I did. The pieces are 1 by(3/4") so...
  12. Plugs and Plug Building
    Here they are guys, tons of new stuff. Musso wood replica wadd needle 2 of 3 bunker a 40s for surfratiam, swims the balls! Heres the gold/pink meet my big o for surfchat! Handcarved gills, fins and mouth heres the mouth gills Small bunker pikie Water drop plugs, very easy and...
  13. Plugs and Plug Building
    Samiam sent me a laminated blank and said to do something with it. Sam: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the top is poplar, then walnut, red cedar, walnut and holly. Has about a dozen coats of lacquer on it.
  14. Plugs and Plug Building
    and wanted to share it. SamIam and I have been exchanging PM's since he sent be a box of persimmion, heart pine and some beautiful red cedar. One of the reasons for the PM's is to see if I can get more, and whether SamIam would be willing to sell blanks to plug builders. Sam has plenty of red...
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