You need to find a good bream bed this weekend, the moon is full, fish should be on the bed. Several years ago I had 16 fishes on 8 cast, then they drained the lake. It has been refilled for several years now, I may hit it Saturday morning.
Very nice popper and awesome paint work.
Bass popper. I turned the body with the tool, brushed acrylic gold paint on it, spray painted the scales, put the eyes on and covered it with Liquid fusion. The hardest part for me seems to be getting the cupped face right. And I put red dots on the bottom too! You can see 
them in the pic above in the lower right. And I also think the legs make a difference, as I see the fish will sometimes just grab a leg and not the body.
With a slant to the face the only way I know to get a cut is to take a ball shaped grinder or possibly a cylinder sanding disc and grind it off after the body is shaped. If I use a flush (square) face I can use an Exacto knife or emery board to remove the material while shaping the body. I use a rechargeable Black & Decker tool that doesn’t run as fast as a Dremel and I use a straighten small L-hook in the chuck to hold the blank body for turning. The small L-hook has a diameter of maybe 3/32 in. with a wood screw thread on it.
Hi RHenn,
Like the rest, beautiful poppers! Very nicely done.
Regards,
Gandolf
Thank you very much!
That bass popper looks great and I agree that the rubber legs can be a big plus.
Here is the tool I use in my Dremel to carve the front. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Dremel-High-Speed-Cutter-DR100/203362527?N=gr#.UfMJZ23y1ZM
I like a deep pocket so it makes a good popping sounds. Here is one I made using a feather and you can see the front.
Looks great! I have a dremel stone I use for the front. I like the paint job, how did you paint it?
I used a pheasant feather. You put down a layer of slow drying epoxy then fit the feather the way you want it. Once dry you put on two coats of fast drying epoxy. Takes a calm hand to keep the feather straight.
Do you trim the feather prior to laying it in the epoxy?
You pick the feather the size of the popper. The only trimming is done at the front of the body. I trim the feather with a razor blade after the first epoxy is dry. I don’t work the front of the feather over the bend going into the front indenture but leave it sticking out from the body. Once trimmed you take a emery-board and smooth before placing the finish coats of epoxy.
Here is another in a brown feather. I first painted the body in a color that matched the light color of the feather and then added a few small red dots. I think it blended very well.
I should say, I don’t fish with these as they take to long. They are in a display box 
Very nice!
You must be much neater in your work than I. All of the paint and epoxy has to been on the bug body before I touch a feather of rubber leg. Nice job, great paint job.
Took Jesse’s advice and put some dots on the bottom:
Not trying to one up you, but several years ago I found some ant stickers, I liked the look but cannot say I have caught any fish as a result.
That looks cool, where did you find them?
It ha been so long ago I am really not sure. It was one of those things I saw and bought on impulse. Probably Walmart.
those poppers are far to pretty to fish with. would keep the showcase in a vault. i hope the unsophisticated fish i target around here never get a glance at those beauties!
When I used to shoot a lot of skeet tournaments, I was shooting with a guy that had a Perazzi shotgun, which is an expensive weapon. I told him that it was a beautiful gun, but I used my Remington 3200 to hunt with as well as shoot in the tournaments. He told me that he used his Perazzi in the duck blind when duck hunting, and that if it was too nice to use in the blind, it wasn’t worth having. That kinda sums up the way I feel about my poppers, so I use them all the time. I just enjoy making them, and fishing them. PM me an address and I’ll send ya a couple, but only if you promise to fish them!!! LOL