JayR

Impressive decent!

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Bluewater Australia

No, LHD or RHD I believe; they used to sell a fair few to the middle east which is LHD. About US$120K for a new bus. Mine's 12 years old.

Lots of wheel travel... this isn't mine, but it illustrates what can happen when your septic tank lid isn't strong enough... he drove out:

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Reaux

Gee missed Hals's prompt reply over the weekend. Seeing as how I spent the weekend here, below, and didn't go on-line. Okay, I can understand the trade secrets thing, but those lures, when they get here, are going to get a through going over. Interesting that Black Jack puts the tail weight on the outside; we normally put tail weights on the inside. Ours are normally cylindrical weights with a hole through the center which fit inside a drilled hole in the rear of the lure and then through wired. We also use belly weights to achieve the proper balance, I assume you guys do so as well?

Anybody on this board interested in getting together - after the fall run, and looking these Australian lures over. I could handle five people here at the Museum and include a private tour. The Polynesian room, which I just found after more than thirty years here, is almost totally devoted to native fishing gear; one could spend a lot of time there.

Bill

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RI Popper

WHAT are you talking about? it all sounds like code to me LOL

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Reaux

Hi RI Popper,

Sorry, in my hubris I thought you might have been reading my posts in other Forums. I'm a Vertebrate Paleontologist and I work at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (section Museum of Comparative Zoology) here in Cambridge MA - not all that far from you. Last spring I hosted Jason and his wonderful family for a behind the scenes visit to the Vertebrate Paleontology collections and a private tour of the museum; largely because Jayson sent me a number of his lures (unfinished) for my experiments with sealing plugs with CAs or Cyano Acrylates.

My suggestion for a get together of nearby plug builders here at the Museum was for the purpose of examining the Australian Plugs which I ordered from Bluewater. Perhaps I should have started a new thread. I will do so once the season is over, if no one responds to this thread buried such as it is in the otherwise very interesting topic of Australian plug construction. These plugs and their construction should be right up your alley as they are meant for very large fish.

I'm going to do my best to figure out how they do the tail wraps. First I'm going to give them the eye ball evaluation and then I'm going down stairs and will X Ray them. My initial impression from what Hal has told us is that they are wrapping the tail wraps in reverse from the way we do it.

For example: if one were to wire a plug with the hanger or swivel and instead of finishing it off as we normally do was to reinsert the wire (180 degree bend) back into the rear of the plug after attaching the swivel. Then, perhaps you could take a nail and insert it in the loop of wire and start twisting. Of course then there would be the problem of the return wire rotating internally. That could be solved by running the return wire up to the belly swivel giving the return wire something to fetch up aganist. Or they could take the egg weight thingy and cut a notch in it then thread the wire through it and then return it through the thingy and then make a small 90 degree bend in the return wire. This would require carefull measurement. At any rate the thingy is inserted and glued into the rear of the plug; then as above a nail is inserted into the tailing loop (with swivel) and twisted. The wire would turn internally until it found the notch in the thingy at which point it would start twisting making an internal tail wrap.

Just guesses on my part. I'll do my best to figure it out even if I have to take one apart . . . after it has caught a lot of fish.

Finally, RI Popper and other commercial plug builders; don't you sense a chance here to go international. If I were any one of you I would be touting my plugs to Hal as I type.

Bill

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RI Popper

Hi Bill,

As far as internations. I do sell plugs to Portugal, New Zealand, Australia, and a couple to Brazil. I'm trying to slow down.

Armand

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JayR

Count me in!!!

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Reaux

Hi Armand,

Just checked your web site. Nice! Wonder if the Australians use metal lipped swimmers. BTW they, I believe, call lipped swimmers bibbed swimers.

Bill

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Reaux

Okay Jay. Lets see if we can get four more people. It can be a fun winter time excursion.

Bill

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JayR

Cool but I'm not driving this time I hate Boston traffic!!!!!!

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