I try to build a minnow, not limiting myself to explain how to do it, but photographing the building and also errors, which in the working of this kind are very frequent. The piece will become quite long, so I decided to do it in installments. When I build an artificial but I always thought the place where the user, for example, I remember that stretch of shallow oxbow, with the bottom covered with branches and nannufare sunk, in which the predators, if present, are on the bottom, even at some distance from the shore. I think then to a floating fish, but also heavy on 17/18 grams, so you can run well. As for determining the buoyancy is the weight / volume ratio, will lure out a little 'chubby, ideal for stimulating the attachment of a nice pike in shallow water, or a big black bass. The weight and volume of the eye to decide based on experience, and is said to be floating as I want. The first prototypes made them Rapala birch or poplar, but he chose the industrial production of balsa wood, which being much lighter is well suited for this purpose. Who does not have a model airplane shop near where buy this wood, must necessarily fall back on the substitutes, for me, the best one is the root of poplar, which can be found free on the riverbed.
The sun of the summer dry until it becomes light and having no bone and very tender is ideal. Cut a piece of wood to length, and sagomiamolo to form a box. With a saw cut a slot along its length, which is intended to receive the armor, which I made of copper wire with a diameter of 1 mm. This slot will be regularized and expanded with the sandpaper, and also serve as a reference model in our fish, altimenti would be difficult to maintain symmetry. The little fish you carve with a sharp boxcutter, then you can easily finish with coarse sandpaper (80) and then finer (100) is not necessary to smooth it perfectly, because the first coat of primer would return ruvidissimo.
cut that will accommodate the blade must be done with a saw rather late, not splinter the wood being cut for the long, fragile. The headstock is made of aluminum, which in this artificial size (about 12 cm) is much more robust, and being stuck with the hot glue you can simply detach and paste warming, which is very handy if you need to change its shape, and a center channel in the armor. I did the armature of copper wire soldered, provided with only the tail treble hook. At this point I put on my scale prototype, the paddle and stir with the ring, and I see what is missing to reach the desired weight. This weight is missing, is that I have to add lead ballast, and for that I practice at the point of greatest thickness, the space for a lead-weighted and shaped for this purpose. At this point, using hot glue, hard armor, and then lead. Lungitudinale close the cut with a strip of the same wood, and fill the gaps by pouring glue, spying with a bra type spatula, heated over a flame.
As you can see the first image above.
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