by Watchhiller » Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:55 am
hey recon. i learned a trick on the web from an oldtimer lure carver. it involves using 2 blocks instead of one. once glued together it gives you a 'vertical lateral line'. much like one gets from the sculpy baked half at a time, but with wood or alumilite white it would be much more rigid. this makes it much easier to mirror one side to the other by eye and make the master symmetrical. in other words it gives your eye a reference point where it had none before. this also would come in handy if one were to make a two peice mold. the line of seperation between the two blocks(the glue line) is the perfect guide for where to build your clay up to. use your idea, but pour 2 blocks of material half the size lengthwise(ie. half as deep). glue them together and there is your vertical reference. it also makes it easier when placing hardware and even a reference line to place a crank bait lip to the perpendicular of or whatever! hope this helps.
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Watchhiller on Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.