pencil popper

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Comment by dick tabbert on December 19, 2013 at 2:15pm

Again nice work Mark.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on December 19, 2013 at 12:22pm

Thanks for the info Mark. May have to stick with the local hobby type yellow pine, which they indeed got tons of, in premade dowels. May have to do that instead.

Comment by Mark Stine on December 19, 2013 at 12:16pm

Leo I bought a huge box of billets (end scrap) at a wildlife expo after hundreds of poppers I have barely made a dent.  But it is available online and our local lumber yard carries it too.  Other great options are cedar, bass wood, pine (not the grainy kind like yellow pine). If you are only making a few or just want to test the waters I'd try soem of the hard foam like Wapsi.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on December 19, 2013 at 11:52am

Okay Mark, I have to ask, where the heck you get all your tupelo gum wood? I looked at the hobby stores around here, and they gave me some strange look. May have to order them online.

Comment by jim cosgrove on December 19, 2013 at 11:34am

thanks mark,i will look it up.need to make some poppers that are tougher for bass.got these corks and hey they should float like a cork

Comment by Mark Stine on December 19, 2013 at 11:23am

Jim and Leo, this is from a piece of tupelo gum wood  that I whittled down enough to fit in the pencil sharpener to get the body cork would be fine too. I use envirotex lite as a top coat its a pour on finish and will smooth out and/or fill most flaws! I didn't even sand these poppers.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on December 19, 2013 at 11:03am

Is that balsa wood or cork?

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on December 19, 2013 at 11:02am

WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE TALENT ON HERE LIKE JIM COSGROVE AND MR. STINE !!!!!! LOTS OF FOLK JUST DON'T APPRECIATE WHAT GOES INTO ALL THESE EFFORTS , I DO CAUSE I TRIED IT ONCE MANY YEARS AGO AND GAVE UP ON THAT IDEA SHORTLY .......

Comment by jim cosgrove on December 19, 2013 at 10:12am

mark-got a questio.i have several dozen small cork stoppers.what would i use to fill/smooth the cork.i am not expecting results like yours but want a nice tough  finish

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on December 19, 2013 at 8:49am

Pretty lil thing. Nice simple paint job!