Josh Palma wrote:

Does anyone know if Tuned Up Customs is selling the arms now? Looked on their website and couldn’t find anything on them.

That’s because I was the one making them for TUCR.

Unhappy update….
The quotes I got back from a few companies were just too high to make it feasible. Reason the quotes were high is because they have alot of overhead to cover (wages, insurance, pension, etc.)

In July 2017, my child support will be all finished so I will be able to afford about used cnc soon after. I know that’s quite of after jog out there for a date, but atleast it won’t be forgotten…. had a couple friends that have joked around with the idea of a go-fund-me or kick-starter to get the arms back up in production, but it’s truly not feasible to do that either. Granted I could get a decent enough cnc mill for 5-8 grand at auction, but other expenses come into play like cement work for machine foundation, trucking the machine, tooling, fixturing, etc. So my initial investment is looking around 15-20k and a kick-starter or go-fund-me is really out of line for a 25 dollar set of arms…

So, it is what it is, till I can come up with better quotes or resources to get this going again….

Thanks again guys!

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Love my xt1200 pro resort. It is the biggest and heaviest. It is sooooo warm and pulls so much better than my old quickflip3. Plenty of room!!

I just ran lights in mine….

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Imho, frabill has the better bench seats, but otter has the better buckets. Eskimo has a really good canvas folding chair, doesn’t look comfortable but it really is.

In my xt1200 pro resort, I always say I’m going to remove the third seat but usually leave it in for somewhere to set my junk. They don’t make a storage unit for the resort, so I may end up making one….

On my xt1200 pro resort I used the sunflower but found it to get too hot even on the low setting, even with my coat off. This year I switched to a thermablaster porcelain heater, similar to a buddy heater but stripped down and cheaper, with electric start an hose and regulator. Also, it’s a full variable switch on the heat setting.

By the way, if anyone is thinking about the mini bookworm, here is a pic of mine….

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I agree. It’s strong enough for those occasional snot rockets also. I went from one week of catching 14 inch sodak perch and 30 inch northerns to catching 5 inch perch at Brainerd ice extravaganza with the same rod and jig ( wonderbread by brantner ). Crappies also on that rod. The feel is amazing. I prefer the split grips, incase I need any extra sensitivity I just remove a glove and feel the blank on the split.
A bullwhip would get my second vote.

I attach 4 sets of bags per side of binder. Here is how to do that…. see how I have it staggered over?

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Wallet size…. keep in mind the mine is half the size, and if you have alot of plastics, you won’t be satisfied with the mini.

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The velcro binder

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The additional bags. 6 sewn into a velcro strip. Then you just apply it to the velcro binder.

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Here’s a photo of mine

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I use a product called the bookworm. It’s a canvas foldable wallet that velcro shut, and has velcro inserts inside of zip lock baggies. Each inset is like 7 zip lock bags sewn to a velcro strip that you can attach to the inside velcro binder. The mini will only hold about 30 total bags, while the regular will hold over double that. Sportsmen direct sells these, as well as extra inserts. The description of the product should say how many come with the bookworm. I know I ordered a couple extra and make them all fit….
http://sportsmensdirect.com/shop/tackle-storage/the-book-worm-/

I can take a photo of mine when I get home.

Sorry guys, haven’t kept up with the forums.

I changed jobs in march of 2015 and no longer have access to a cnc mill. I have retrieved some quotes from companies to machine these,but currently the price break to make them cheap requires big investments, and even then it would cost more than before. It seems that if you try to find the most efficient place to do them, they have more overhead to cover in their quote

I have prototypes being made by my brother at a company he works for, being laser cut. The 3/8 thick ones he cut seem alot bulkier and heavier due to not having it pocketed out on the bottom, so we are going to try 1/4 inch thick and see what those feel like. I wouldn’t be able to offer any engraving on these. A person could do some etching with etching paste, but that could turn into a task if trying to do a different etching for every order…. I’m still leery about this venture as I’m not in total control of the process, and my name is on the line for quality.

Here is the prototype of the laser cut 3/8 version.

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Friday night we went to lake irvine and caught our limit of eyes and pike trolling the basin instead of weed edges. People that trolled the weed edges that night only caught dinks so luckily we went our own path.

Saturday we went to devils and put in south of minnewaukon. We trolled the golden highway and caught our limits of eyes. Not so many pike tho on the golden highway. Only 5.

Smallest eye we kept was a 15, largest was a 19.25.

Awesome time. Never realized how big devils was till I seen it in person.

Thanks. We will be up on friday till sunday.

rt9 fiasco? last i knew, its waiting to be cleared by google, which can take some time…

good luck seeing anything in the deep with the camera. at 50+ foot, that water in gull lake is aweful dark. I tried that on the south side of the lake and i could only see a few inches.

next year we have a new plan, lol. hope it pays off.

Thanks James! Who woulda thought 3 years ago when I was waiting for the LX9 to be released, that making a little “bling” for my unit would turn into this….

Same goes for IDO, I’m sure back when you started it, you weren’t thinking it would grow this much or have such a following. Keep up the good work, I truly enjoy the shows as well as the tips on fishing and using my sonar to its maximum capabilities!

lol @ big fish hammer!!!!

Thanks for the episode. was really cool to see my custom transducer arms on the tv. Gives me a big feeling of pride.

With the lx5 I think SFL shoulda helped.

I was out there in 60fow with my lx9. Dialing in a jig was tricky, very tricky. I had to dial back the sensitivity and adjust the target adjust, and use ir. I found one selection that seemed to work well for bigger jigs like buckshot spoons and ultra lite ripping raps, but not tungsten jig heads. I had to readjust for them.

Moving shallow helped, both with radar and catching fish lol. This year small perch didn’t get me a prize tho….

Sweet show.

my buddy uses his hds7 in open water mode for ice fishing. he prefers the graphing so to see the past and present in the screen, to see how the fish are reacting. he prefers the hds over his ice35.

on the resort, the seats are on a bracket, no crossbar like the lodge or smaller shacks. no need to worry about those till last since they clip on the back and front of the sled.

I love my quick tips so much I have yet to try my bullwhip

Thanks guys for the kind words. I take pride in my work and it obviously shows with compliments. Much appreciated!!!

25 dollars shipped no matter what unit

Did someone say showdown? I had a feelING they could be mounted to by he base like hbird and vex units. Finally had a customer willing to try it.

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