Was wondering if anyone could give me an easy way of making balsa wood popper bodies.
Popper Bodies
Was wondering if anyone could give me an easy way of making balsa wood popper bodies.
Raiderhunter....Always In Search Of Water and Fish....
At this time on the forum read the one titled BALSA BODIES for all the information that you need. It will also be shown on the FLY TYING section. BILLOriginally Posted by raiderhunter
Raiderhunter, I use the foam from flip flops and they work great. I place an aluminum arrow(short piece and the diameter depends on how large you want you poppers to be) in the chuck on a drill and the arrow shaft will make a perfect plug. I take my dremel and I push a needle(must have a flattened part to keep bodies from spinning on the needle), and shape it with emery board. When I finish, I cut a groove in botton of newly formed body, place hook in groove, and glue it. Then I dress up which ever way I want it to look. PM me and I can give you more details. mathcarver
A search turns up with no results.At this time on the forum read the one titled BALSA BODIES for all the information that you need. It will also be shown on the FLY TYING section. BILL
Oh?....
http://flyanglersonline.com/bb/showthread.php?t=30536
per Bill.
I just go buy the balsa spars they sell in the craft stores for the r/c airplane guys. I buy them in various widths (I like the square ones rather than the dowels) for different sized poppers. Then all you have to do is cut off a piece the length you need the popper body to be, sand it to the desired shape, glue it to the hook, paint it, then I usually coat it with some type of clear coat for durability, tie on the tail and you're there.
If it swims and eats, it'll eat a fly.
Raiderhunter
Go to a hardware store like Home Depot or Lowes and they sell assorted styles of cork stoppers. They range in diameters from about 1/4" on up to very large. Sorry I can't remember which section they were in. You can also find them in the craft stores like Michaels and Hobby Lobby. They are easy to work with and they float like cork.
Greg
http://www.peninsulaflyfishers.org/F...s_poppers.html
and theres a lot more ways if you did a GOOGLE search
I have a pictorial set of directions regarding how to crank out popper bodies using flip flops here (they go very fast) -
http://www.freewebs.com/fountainheadflyfish/apps/blog/
(scoll down about one screen, you can't miss it)
Other than a drill or dremel tool and a piece of sand paper or nail file, there nothing else you'll need.
Last edited by pszy22; 08-30-2009 at 05:14 PM.
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