I've been fooling around with PVC for a little while and its based on the Gladidator bait but this is hinged. The hinges are  1 1/4" ss eyes with 3/32" ss bearing stock for the pins.

Great looking swimmer, really looking forward to seeing it finished.

I love this body design, looks very cool. Can't wait to see this with paint on it!

Great looking swimbait. Whats the length of it?

That's a very good-looking bait. I really like how you did the fins.  8-)

It looks great! It looks ghostly.  8-) Where did you purchase the PVC?

islandbass,

I just got my order from Vintage Woodworks.  I used to get PVC from Menards, but I think I'm going to switch over to ordering from Vintage Woodworks.  Their PVC doesn't have a plastic casing on it, which makes it much easier to work with.  Make sure you get the trim board, not the deck board.  The deck board has a woodgrain on one side which would decrease the useable thickness of the board.

Hope this helps.

Ben

Thanks! I am seriously considering using this material, after I use up my balsa supply. Need some winter time projects anyway.

Thanks for the kind words;

IB-The material is something that Whittler told me about. I picked it up at Home Depot. It's brick molding door trim.

MD- It's about 7 inches long with a ballast of 7/8ths of an ounce.

The line tie is stainless steel eyes like the hinges and the hook eyes are home made stainless steel wire twisted around a 8d finish nail.

I don't have a clue as what to paint it just yet but I do like trout baits. I have a picture of a "Punker" type bait I made and painted with a trout pattern and I'll post that tomorrow.

Here's the "Punker type" I made and painted the trout pattern.

Very nice work on that Punker.

Sweet! Looks awesome, love the paint job. Hows the other one coming?

Very nice looking swimbait !!

Sweet! Looks awesome, love the paint job. Hows the other one coming?

Nate, it's still sitting on the shop bench. I haven't decided what to paint it yet. My guess it will be a forage pattern we have around here, but not sure what just yet. Thanks for asking.

What do you use to work it down after the rough cut, a dremel? By hand?

Nate, it's still sitting on the shop bench. I haven't decided what to paint it yet. My guess it will be a forage pattern we have around here, but not sure what just yet. Thanks for asking.

This took too long to post but I finally got around to finishing it. I guess I like the trout pattern. It swims great and dives around 6 to 8 feet and "wakes" just great.