I just started building my first wooden fishing lure.. a lipless through-wire swimbait.

minimal tooling.. just some hand tools (hand saw, leatherman etc) and a dremel.

I've got the lure carved, cut into 3 jointed pieces, holes drilled for through-wiring, crevaces drilled and filled with lead to weight the lure to just below neutral buoyancy, and a coat of acetone-thinned epoxy for initial waterproofing.

All I need to do now is paint, topcoat with epoxy again to protect the paintjob, assemble the through-wiring and joints (filling gaps in drilled holes with epoxy as well for waterproofing), and put on my hooks with split rings!

As it's my first attempt at any kind of woodworking, any kind of lure building, and figuring out just how to make a swimbait (not exactly easy to get it to swim right), especially with no useful tools like a band saw.. I'm not expecting any kind of success from this lure. However this has been fun so far and a great learning experience. If the lure does anything better than blowing up into 10000 splinters as soon as it hits the water for testing, I'll consider the project a success.

Pics to come at some point in time.