Plugaholic, I am relativly new to building plugs, as i refuse to pay that much money for the hot customs. I currently use broom sticks and dowles and i do most of my shaping on a table top belt/disk sander. I just painted an 8" spook style plug "parrot" and will put a custom wrapped siwash hook on the tail end. Just take your time and be carefull not to get hurt.