Here is a new lipless wakebait /swimbait I made. Made a plan on paper and just took a piece of basswood and grinded it down to the shape and size I wanted with a Dremel tool, cut the joints and added the weight. Sealed it up and added the hooks and screweyes. Used a broken Storm Kickin' minnow tail attached by a wire screw thing as the tail. Worked on the very first try with no adjustments. Either I got lucky or I am getting good at this. Swims better or as good as any swimbait on the market I could buy. Swims at a very slow speed as well as fast and does a 180 back at the fish when stopped on a follower as well as some other tricks. Added the paint, eyes, and clearcoat and it caught a 5lb fish on the first cast when I was just watching it swim for the first time. Here is a video http://media.putfile.com/Swimbait-slow-retrieve . And here is a photo of the bait. Now I just got to get me a slow sinker made to go with it.

That thing has great action.  Great job

great looking bait, I've not tried multiple joints yet (kind of scares me).

Cool bait!  How many hours did it take to make?

It's hard to say since I made it in steps a little at a time and didn't pay attention to how much time each step took. But I would guess three or four hours and maybe more total time.

Awesome action.  I have been looking for a bait with that nice slow swim action.  Dose anyone know of one about 1oz or so ?

I was waiting for that 5 pounder to come out of nowhere and smack it, lol.

That slow retrieve looks like it could be killer.