Making Fishing Floats ( Bobbers ) without a Lathe .

hey guys fishing stuff today we're making some handmade fishing bobbers right after this today we're gonna make some handmade bobbers and in order to do that without a lathe I'm gonna have to come up with a way to turn them bobberts are generally made of styrofoam or hard plastic with trapped air in it well the hard plastic with trapped air usually tends not to be as buoyant what makes their phone float is exactly that it has air trapped in it balsa wood is a wood that comes from South America and a lot of your older by lures and stuff was made from fossil wood because it has trapped air in it just like styrofoam basa wood consists of the same properties as styrofoam but it's a lot stronger than stair phone the first thing we're going to do is I got two different types telephone a closed cell open cell ones like what this Baba right here is made out of the other types Tara phones more of an open cell and it's basically what pool noodles were made that those so first I'm gonna pick a couple of different kinds of wood and a couple of different kinds of styrofoam and we're going around the test to check the buoyancy of them and we got some different materials here the first thing I want to do is I want to write a little test and see which one of these is more boolean got some regular styrofoam this is a different type of styrofoam that my laptop came in this is balsa wood I guess I'm pronouncing it right it's balsa wood got this at Hobby Lobby and this is just a piece of pine cuz I like experimenting first I got to do to make this test fair we got to cut these down all the same size we're going to put them in water we're gonna put weight on it the bus'll wood soaks up water so we're going to have to put a sealer on it before we can do the test so let's get these cut up let's get the wood sealed and let's get our little test on the road [Music] okay we got to stare phones and their to woods cut balsa wood and some pine now I'm going to tie string on them I'm gonna clip split shots on that we're gonna see which one's the most buoyant which one to hold up the most weight but first in order to make it fair we're gonna have to seal the wood I'm going to use a polyurethane I could put it online and balsa wood has a lot of the same properties as styrofoam like it has air trapped inside of it so it makes it very buoyant but balsa and pine will both suck up water which makes it unfair people make bass bait side this balsa wood but you have to seal it too will see all these two up and then we'll run our pest [Music] all right I got the wood sealed both pieces I just dip them in the polyurethane I got my stereo phone and I tie the string the same way though now I'm gonna add these split shots to it drop it in the water and see how much they can hold up and I'm pretty sure these are quarter ounce split shots it doesn't say on the bag but looking at them I'd say they're definitely quarter ounce I'm gonna start adding split shots will do the pine first okay I did the pine first and this is barely touching the top of the water and I've got six split shots on it and I started with this one because my guess is the pine will be the worst one it's got six split shots on that now we'll add a seventh one okay we got a seventh one on it see what it does oh she's on the bottom sevens out I could handle actually six is all I could handle now let's move on to the styrofoam pieces okay I went ahead and put seven on this piece of styrofoam start outward of pine failed it should hold it yes holding it it's setting a little deep in the order done let's add another one and see what happens okay number eights on there he'll go it's still floating he's sitting deep but she's still floating number nine number lines on there oh there went straight to the bottom with the pine but the pines got seven the stair phone whatever kind of styrofoam that is it has nine sinkers on it I'm going to start this one with eight because I think you'll do at least as good as that one okay I got eight on this close so styrofoam see how it does yeah I'm thinking it's gonna hold more than nine it's not real deep in the water well number nine here's number nine he's still floating dude I went ahead and jumped it up to number 11 it's got a little Evan split shots on it and it still came back up now I starting to sit deeper in the water twelve might do it okay got 12 on there and 12 done it so got seven on the pizza pine got nine on the other piece of styrofoam and that close so you can see how that's an open cell it's getting water all in it so this one has more air trapped in it and it holds 12 now we're gonna try to boss a wood okay with the balsa wood I'm starting out with nine of them because if it can't beat that stuff down there on this left side ain't no point using it and drop it in there went down but it came back up looks like it's going a whole 10 to me okay number 10 is on there and Tian done it but clothes sell styrofoam came in first with the Levin the boss of would second would ten the open cell styrofoam only held nine and the pine held seven but that's interesting it's very close in density and trapped there aster foam is really close but you can say well stir phones better the thing about boss wood it's really close to stir foam but it's about four times stronger than stir fun so it's going last a lot you know what's interesting about this little experiment the boss of wood almost did as good as terrifying balsa wood outdid the open sell styrofoam and this open cell styrofoam is basically what a pulmonary so here you winners just tariffs on one by quarter ounce so what's the advantage of having balsa wood over styrofoam well Bossa wood is really tough you can mash it but it's kind of hard it's terrifying best advantage where we're gonna make its barber without a lathe is we're going to use a drill and I got some thread to dry that's really small six thirty seconds threaded well I put a nut and some washers in between another nut and I locked it down tight you want to leave a little bit sticking out because you need something to lock it in the Chuck with on your drill take your wood and you find your exact center I cut these blocks the same as the ones I used on the test but they're square so I just draw a line diagonally from each corner and that'll give you exact center and then we're going to drill a hole through it so we can slide it up on our set [Music] okay so got my bug drilled out all drills have a run out enema all drills I mean I got a jet drill press it's not a cheap drill press but all drills have run out plus when you're drilling through something with the grain it kind of wants to walk on you and move around the first time I tried this I started in the center and I didn't end up in the center so I find it best to mark the center on both sides start drilling halfway through stop and finish the other side drill halfway through and let him meet because this wood soft and the hosts plenty big enough this woods really soft but now I got it bolted up on the bottom I put two nuts because the woods so soft you don't want to just crank getting that up against it because it'll just put an indention in it so I snug it up tight and I put a second nut on it and lock it to the first nut now we can put it back in the drill press and we can start our Latham procedure okay we got our block of wood locked into the drill chuck that's why you leave that excess and make sure you would doesn't move easy I mean you want it kind of snug we're gonna turn it on and there's gonna be some run-out like I said it's probably gonna shake back and forth a little bit but instead of chisels like what we normally use always we're gonna use files and rest rest we'll knock it down really fast the files will make it finer then we'll go with sandpaper [Music] let's try something smaller this time [Music] yeah the more you do it the better you get at it definitely that's pretty awesome to be such a simple little jig you got our Santy Bible it's kind of like for a fishing Santy rigged now this one I'm gonna make a crappy bobber ride over now we just need to take our bobbers and seal them we dip it down some polyurethane we worried about this coat being beautiful we just want the seal I mean I thought it would stick to the paper the first one I do but it really don't it's like going super fast that wood soaks it up really quick don't do this step here they'll soak up water and start sinking I'm painting at the top of our little float green so you can see it easier now the Santee rigged float I'm gonna paint it black recently painted black usually the Santee rig floats are real bright and that's because they're not made for fishing and Santee rig you don't want it noticeable I mean it's under the water okay so I'm dipping this little one again after I painted it so it can seal the paint and make sure the wood sealed good we've got our barber ready for Santee rig piecing this stuff on my dear Fiat both of our barbers are trying now I just hung them over a piece of paper towel soda probably your thing could drip off over okay guys so that's basically how you make your own barbers or floats and there's tons of different ways and shapes you can do it I like these out here as an example of that I mean there's all kinds of shapes you can use there's all kinds of different uses for barbers this little float I basically made it for crappie fishing and it's designed for a slip bobber kind of like one of these would be with the tube I put in it it's nothing but a little tube you can use one like this you can get them clear like this but it's just a tube that come off of a wd-40 can another good idea for these be to go and get the little straws that they have at Hardee's and stuff to stir your coffee that would work great this barber here it's basically for running the Santee Reed which is basically one of these but these are nowhere near as tough as this wood will be but this video is just an idea to show you what you can do a boss of wood they use them for basilar words they use them for a lot of stuff I never knew it was so buoyant until we run that test it's actually more buoyant than a pool noodle and that's very interesting but those barbers turned out pretty cool and the main thing is now I have ideas to branch out fine I use slip bumpers occasionally but it won't be something I make a lot but this other float turned out awesome because I do use them a lot so I probably will be making me some more of these but hey if you like DIYs go check out my channel page I got a long list of DIYs and you'll probably be able to find something you like and if you do like it click subscribe and click the bell so that YouTube will notify you when I post and you can watch I'll see you on the next build guys [Music]

Channel: Fishin N Stuff

Views: 80,712

Keywords: MAKING FISHING BOBBERS, MAKING FISHING FLOATS, DIY, MANDMADE, FISHING FLOATS, SLIP BOBBERS, diy bobber, diy projects, diy projects wood, fishing bobber, fishing float, fishing floats bobbers, fishing floats diy, fishing floats explained, fishing floats making, fishing floats types, fishing tackle, how to make a bobber, making balsa fishing floats, making fishing floats lathe, wood turning

Id: pZ0jqXSr7ig

Length: 15min 48sec (948 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 27 2019