My first swimbait (Also Foiled)

That's outstanding, especially for a first swimbait. Great foil job, paint scheme, and fin/tail.

I also had that problem with Etex getting into the joints, and me having to use a sst wire in a drill to remove it and restore the movement in the joint.

I got around the joint coating problem by coating the insides of the joints with D2T first, and letting it set, before I assemble the lure and put it on my wheel to topcoat. It gets hard enough in two hours to redrill the pin holes and assemble the lure.

The D2T is stiffer, so I can just brush it into the joints and onto the joint faces, and lap it onto the face of the lure about 1/4", so the topcoat epoxy has a good lap onto it.

I'm not sure how your lure is connected, but I actually epoxy everything separate w/ D2T. I then put it together and spot epoxy to cover up. This kept my hinges completely clean.