1. Take 3 glass jars with a lid. I use jars for olive-oil that are about 6" high and 3" in diameter.
2. Get a glass sheet with a surface of 1foot wide by 2-3feet long to serve as a protection sheet to be placed under the bait while the lacquer is dripping down from the bait.
3. Make a hanger to hang the baits to dry.
4. Make several S-shaped wire pieces to use as hangers for the baits.
5. Take 200g of probionate.
6. Take about 1 liter of the strongest thinner available or equal in strength to aceton.
7. Put 50g of probionate in one of the jars and fill it up with aceton to about 1" under the lid (2.54cm = 1inch).
8. Place 150g of probionate in another jar and repeat the instructions in nr 7.
9. Shake the jars to dissolve the probionate for about a half hour or stir the mixture with a metal pipe until all the plastic is dissolved.
10. Attach your baits with the hangers and start dipping them in this thin solution at least 3 times to close the woodcells. Let them dry for about 15 minutes between each dip.
11. Switch jars and dip the lure head first about 3 times. Allow the baits to dry at least 15 minutes between the dips. Repeat this step with the tail-end of the lure. Dip again four times.
12. Paint the lure with waterbased colors in any pattern you like and paint the eyes or apply stick-on eyes.
13. Dip the lures in cellulose clearcoat 2 times.
14. Dip them in propionate lacquer again 10-15 times depending on how thick you want the layer of lacquer to be.
15. The third jar is used to capture the drops of lacquer from the glass plate to be used again later. You must solve them again in aceton so they melt again.
16. Cut out the slot for the diving bib and glue it in position.

Now your baits are ready to be fished. Add hooks and splitrings and take them fishing. If the lure gets too chewed up after you have caught many pike on them, just remove the hooks and splitrings, gently rub the surface with steelwool and dip it in the plastic lacquer again. Your bait will be brandnew!