Time to Get Crankin’ – Making them, that is.

[islandbass]

Well, I got inspired by a someone to give crankbait making a shot. I have seen some tutorials in the past, but that was quite a while back. I had some scrap balsa around and decided to use it. I figured if balsa good enough for Rapala, it ought to be for me.

This was the starting block, which I cut in half length-wise.



I cut it in half like below and soon learned that I could probably get two cranks from that one half. I also traced a basic shape.



Next, I cut out the shapes and then carved out the shapes by eyeballing.


The first one I did with mostly sandpaper which seemed really slow and not very precise. Some thought on approaching the second one led me to try carving the basic shape with a hobby knife. The latter was definitely faster, but more care was needed to not shave off too much at one time.


In the photo above, the one on the right is the first one that was carved.

So far, so good. I need to figure out how much weight is needed, which I have no clue.


-ib