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    Posted: 12 Aug 2010 at 12:04pm
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Heres a few that I turned this morning, hopefully get some time this weekend for sealing, painting and epoxy if the weather warms up!!!

On the left are pencil poppers, a swim bait and big mouth popper in the middle and jointed piper stickbaits on the right and below. The rear section of the piper stickbait will give it more action, and if all goes to plan these should sink slowly when not retrieved, where they will be snapped up by a 20lber if nothing is happening up topWink ( Think big I say )
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Top stuff, what wood are you using, and what kind of through wire system are you thinking of going for?
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These are all pine, I use 1.6mm stainless fully through wired on all of these. Wire passes through the swivel in the belly and is wrapped at the tail.

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AHH if only I had a lathe...very cool work RAL.
Any tips for getting the wire loops nice and even,im struggling a bit with the wire I have,and lack of tools...
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Great looking poppers on the way there RealAppeal.
I have been making poppers for a while and will put up some photos shortly. Mine are strictly for personal and friends use although the technique and components are similiar to yours. I use a 1 to 1 1/2 oz ball sinker in the tail to give them a bit of weight.  They end up  between 80 to 120 grams and are mainly used when fishing off the rocks.  That weight suits my gear and gives a good aerodynamic cast. It is an extra buzz to deal to a  good fish on a lure you have made yourself.
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Originally posted by falco falco wrote:

AHH if only I had a lathe...very cool work RAL.
Any tips for getting the wire loops nice and even,im struggling a bit with the wire I have,and lack of tools...
 
Do you mean the loop/eye or the wraps at the rear of a lure?
You can form the eye pretty much how he will in the link, some people have a barrel wrap on the eye some don't, it will take some serious drag to straighten an eye just bent with no wrap.
 
If you are lacking in tools this link will be great for you Falco, pretty simple. I use Knipex circlip pliers instead of a allen key but only because it is quicker.
 
 
Another tip Falco is buy pre-bent wireTongueWink
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Shad, there is quite a few of these on the market, but man have you seen the prices!!!Some are $800 USShocked
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Originally posted by Raumati South Raumati South wrote:

Great looking poppers on the way there RealAppeal.
I have been making poppers for a while and will put up some photos shortly. Mine are strictly for personal and friends use although the technique and components are similiar to yours. I use a 1 to 1 1/2 oz ball sinker in the tail to give them a bit of weight.  They end up  between 80 to 120 grams and are mainly used when fishing off the rocks.  That weight suits my gear and gives a good aerodynamic cast. It is an extra buzz to deal to a  good fish on a lure you have made yourself.
 
Sweet Rau, would be cool to see some photos. Its good to see some other people into making lures and like you said that extra buzz makes the fiddling round worth it.
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Another popper ready for epoxy, I tend to save them up and have an epoxy session otherwise I waste too much... 165mm and will be 4oz ( 110ishg ) when rigged. Added some aluminium dots for strike triggers. Colour not to great in photos, but is black fading to green to blue. 
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Pretty wicked man! Beats my eva grip with the treble hanging out the back lol

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Originally posted by Kid Gigity Kid Gigity wrote:

Pretty wicked man! Beats my eva grip with the treble hanging out the back lol

 
Kid if it catches fish whats wrong with the EVA gropperLOLLOL
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They look great ReelAppeal - can't wait to see a few pics of them beaten up and covered in teeth marks!
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Originally posted by ReelAppealLures ReelAppealLures wrote:

Heres a few that I turned this morning, hopefully get some time this weekend for sealing, painting and epoxy if the weather warms up!!!

On the left are pencil poppers, a swim bait and big mouth popper in the middle and jointed piper stickbaits on the right and below. The rear section of the piper stickbait will give it more action, and if all goes to plan these should sink slowly when not retrieved, where they will be snapped up by a 20lber if nothing is happening up topWink ( Think big I say )
 
Base coats are down and dryed. Right now they are flat white, what colours have been working for you lot? I will try and keep some of the piper shape lures as realistic as I can, I have some aluminium tape for the silver undersides, but as for paint jobs / colours for the other any ideas? May try some paua sheet for inlays etc....
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I've made a bit more progress on the latest batch of poppers so it is about time for post. 
 
This is a progress shot from the top is the partly shaped wooden blank. It has a groove cut down the middle plus a hole for a ball sinker at the tail. This is a new shape I'm trying - a long tom imitation.
Then jumping to the middle one is the popper with the wire / ball sinker / swivel attached and a goodly layer of builders bog holding the lot together.
Closest is the near complete small model popper all ready for some day time work. - (That could be some time off down here in Wellington)
 
A couple more models including the dark early morning or late evening variety and the stick bait type at the back. As you can see the spray can paint job is fairly basic but it does the job.
It is fairly time consuming making them up but a lot of fun using them.
 
 
 
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Good Stuff, like you said it is time consuming, but the more you make the more of a technique you develop. Good luck and let us know how they fish, I am picking the middle popper in the botton photo to put up some good splashes.
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Nice one Dadsy, we'll get a yellow fin hangen off them for sure...
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Heres a pic of my first attempt. A whitled and sanded job. Cant wait to see how it goes!
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That one looks good Nathan.  I'd be keen to hear how it swims.
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