i'm sure somebody can give me some input here.

i got some nice cedar, and figured i'd try making a bait out of it.

is it very dense? hard? easy to sink? easy to work with?

thanks

I don'tknow but it wil sure smell good.

yeah this stuff smells soooooo good!

yeh its a great wood to make crank. ther are a few co. that use cedar   poes  cranks are all cedar i have made a few with red cedar and the wood is easy to work. i cut a cedar tree down and then cut it into pieces to make baits  cedar is the only wood i know of you dont have to have kiln dryed  just air dry it for year

Cedar is harder to carve than basswood and watch how the grain is flowing.   For weighting I would say the density is pretty close to basswood.    I don't make sinking baits so I start with less than half the weight I would use in a similar balsa bait.

big m   how did the cedar work out that i sent you?

Kb, the deep divers I made from that wood were the bomb.    I would like to say thank you again.

I have made a bunch of baits from a red cedar fence post a friend gave me and the wood works up great. The baits are easy to get the action that you want ( floating, sinking, suspending) I think you'll like it.

Cedar is great to work with, I'm kinda a rookie at wood baits but I   use cedar for all my cranks except ones that I want super sallow, those I do with balsa. One thing to remember is that cedar can peel so be careful when using a knife, other than that it's like working with any other wood only it's much more durable and much more forgiving on mistakes  

cedar is awesome.  next to balsa, its the very easy to carve, sand, and finish.  however, i've had problems with it chiping as I carve and haven't found a way around it.  Maybe 1 out of 3 baits end up getting chipped as i carve which makes the project take longer to carve and sand.  floats very well although, i've found it takes quite a bit of weight to get them to sink.