Ah, but we ran through this before, remember?- Corn oil does come under the drying oil classification (based on iodine content), it's just not an ideal oil. In any case, I had to sit down for a spell last time I read the price tag on a bottle of linseed oil- it would be fair cheaper to buy my plugs then make it, if I had to finish it with that stuff.
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. I was going to buy one but needed to sit down again when I read the price tag- see above- my wallet and blood pressure are connected in some way). My idea was to make a few dollars selling lures and that sort of stuff (I also tie a few flies, and always intended to sell some) but the only way to make them efficiently was less then satisfactory (I tried carving them, but the cost in time and band aids really cut into the profit, so I tried turning them on my pole lathe (the cost of a power lathe....), and they all wound up looking like Vienna sausages. So that idea was off.
I wouldn't know a bass lure from a bass guitar,

we don't get bass unfortunately, I heard some fellows go on about bass fishing- seems like the stuff. Trout is about all you would use a lure for around here, (though I think lures are starting to be used for cod fishing now- jiggers have been banned, sadly) And even that is not all that common.
I don't fancy doing that but I suppose you could use old ball-bearings (or lead shot) instead, which would also add a nice rattle to the lure.
Funny you should mention that, I've been wandering around all over looking for old ball bearings and lead shot

catapult ammunition, see. I think lead is illegal over here too for use in fishing equipment and fowling (I remember a stir about something a few years back, but I'm not sure) But extra weight is very much needed in the plugs I made- I wound up tieing a few 1/4 inch nuts above and below them- they looked more then a bit queer sitting on the water like they did before, and they flew like a hand full of feathers. I wonder if filling the hole with sand would work? I might knock up one next day or so and see, seeing as trouting has just started up again.
All in all the idea needed more work then I gave it- I really only jumped in feet first, no real thought, I just wanted to keep myself busy for a spell, and he idea of 'a few dollars' in the future was plenty encouragement. Perhaps come winter when I'm on my arse again I'll have another go at it. Ent it grand? I only start thinking about stuff like this when I haven't got the time to really go at it.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.- Unknown.