Hello,

My name is John, and I am a new member here. Making my own fishing lures has been a hobby and passion of mine for 8 or so years now. I began making my own casting and jigging spoons out of metal tubing and lead, and now make my own crankbaits out of wood. (Mainly cedar) Lately I've been building these square bill rattle cranks and mid diving walleye baits. Below are some samples of my work in metal and wood. 

 

Looking good!

Those look awesome.

Thank you. I'm having trouble adding pictures but will post more when I get it figured out. The file sizes are within the limits but it's telling me it's been exceeded. 

4 hours ago, Baitmaker said:

Thank you. I'm having trouble adding pictures but will post more when I get it figured out. The file sizes are within the limits but it's telling me it's been exceeded. 

First off, welcome to BR!

You may need to resize your pics by opening and saving them to a different program.

Your work looks incredible! Nice cranks with beautiful paint. Nothing like a good custom wood crank. Those blade baits look interesting as well.

28 minutes ago, CJ said:

First off, welcome to BR!

You may need to resize your pics by opening and saving them to a different program.

Your work looks incredible! Nice cranks with beautiful paint. Nothing like a good custom wood crank. Those blade baits look interesting as well.

Thank you, but I have opened my pictures in Paint and re sized them to over half their normal size and they are still too large. BUT- The pictures that I already uploaded were larger than that. Hmmm

Welcome aboard, John!

Very nice paint jobs!

Thanks for the nice comments. Still having problems posting more pictures. Perhaps I've reached my daily or newbie bandwidth limit? It says max total size 0.03MB

Gorgeous!

59 minutes ago, Baitmaker said:

Thank you, but I have opened my pictures in Paint and re sized them to over half their normal size and they are still too large. BUT- The pictures that I already uploaded were larger than that. Hmmm

What file type are you working with? You may need to change to a file type more compatible with posting on the web. (smaller footprint not actual visual size) jpeg seems to be a good all around file type for posting pics.  Here is a quick reference page on the topic JPG vs. GIF vs. PNG

As for your work I agree with CJ, Your work looks incredible! You must have extreme patience to do that. 

16 minutes ago, Baitmaker said:

Thanks for the nice comments. Still having problems posting more pictures. Perhaps I've reached my daily or newbie bandwidth limit? It says max total size 0.03MB

That could be it. I'm really the MB idiot as far as those kind of things go. You might search the sight for help. There's a search bar up toward the top right.

Oh yeah there is a Staff button listing the staff at the top of the page you could message one of them from there for assistance as well. 

All of my files are in the jpeg format. I'm not computer savvy enough to know how .03MB converts to KB or exactly how to go about making the file size small enough without reducing the photo size too much. 

9 minutes ago, Baitmaker said:

All of my files are in the jpeg format. I'm not computer savvy enough to know how .03MB converts to KB or exactly how to go about making the file size small enough without reducing the photo size too much. 

http://www.convertunits.com/from/Mbps/to/Kbps

.03 MB converts to 30 KB

Changing format (file size) doesn't change the photo actual view able size.

Message Glenn he seems like a good guy and will know or be able to fix any issues. 

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/profile/16-glenn/

1 hour ago, S. Sass said:

http://www.convertunits.com/from/Mbps/to/Kbps

.03 MB converts to 30 KB

Changing format (file size) doesn't change the photo actual view able size.

Message Glenn he seems like a good guy and will know or be able to fix any issues. 

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/profile/16-glenn/

Thanks a lot for the info, but the first picture at the top of my post is well over 30 KB. Now it says my limit is 30 KB. I'm done messing with it for now. Unless there is a daily limit of how much you can upload than it's not making any sense. I have no problems uploading photos to another forum that I'm on. 

I like the designs, are all the cranks through wire construction with circuit board lips? The consistency is amazing, very nice work!!!

4 minutes ago, smalljaw67 said:

I like the designs, are all the cranks through wire construction with circuit board lips? The consistency is amazing, very nice work!!!

Thank you, and although I do build wire through baits, the ones pictured are made with eye screws. One reason for that is due to the rattle chamber limiting the room for the wire to pass through. They are made with a single bearing side to side rattle vs the head to tail rattle chamber in most baits. These are sealed, and have 3 coats of E-Tex epoxy, so the eye screws will never come lose. 

It appears as though the picture file size limit has been dropped from 200K (when I originally posted) to 30K. The only explanation is that I have nearly reached my upload limit. Will check back tomorrow and see if it's back to 200K. Reducing all these pictures is just a pain in the butt. 

Really cool looking stuff man.

Would like to post some more but it is saying this. " You can only upload a total of 0MB". I'm done trying to figure it out. Sorry

Try starting another thread. I would like to see more too! There could be a limit on pics for one thread.

New thread didn't work either. 

This site must have a limit of available bandwidth for new users. Which would be understandable. If that's not it then I give up.