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You have nothing to worry about from an availability perspective, the rewards program is not going away, neither is the forum, you can read my statement and answers on the forum and Do-it's comments on our home page. If you have any concerns you can call me just like normal. Jason

I make small crankbaits and topwaters and use small diameter wire. I normally use round pliers but decided to make a homemade wire bender just cause I like to make my own tools for the challenge and the fun. I would up the size a bit for larger wire sizes. Ed How I made a wire bender.pdf How I made a wire bender.pdf How I made a wire bender.pdf How I made a wire bender.pdf How I made a wire bender.pdf How I made a wire bender.pdf How I made a wire bender.pdf How I made a wire bender.pdf How I made a wire bender.pdf

mod podge is good, but pretty thick. i use it on the outside of my molds. i use elmers glue & water 50/50 for the inner cavity. some people use thinned down epoxy, i cant really comment on that other than elmers is a lot cheaper & cleaner to work with.

I don't pour plastics, but I would like to congratulate Jason. To say the business world is a jungle is putting it lightly and it seems as if he has done well. So congratulations Jason. Hope this new chapter in your business is as successful as you'd like it to be. Ben

Carolinamike, thanks for the welcome, you didnt offend me, I was thinking some of the same things myself, I do value everyone opinions and come to fourms like this for its knowledge base of great people.----Things are moving fast over at CCM, I just looked at CCM website and Do-It has their logo on thier already.

We have some really exciting news to share. We wanted you to know about this before an official Press Release is made in the near future. For the last couple months, there have been discussions between Do-It and Caney Creek about how we can provide the ultimate products to you. The owners of Do-It, Jason Haefner and Ryan McBride, are both really passionate about the outdoors and fishing, just like we are. We have gotten to know them and learn much about their mold business, other lines of business like CSI (Component Systems), and most importantly – the passion and pride the employees of Do-It have about what they do. Overall I can say this, they are awesome, and are going to bring so much additional technology, innovation and manufacturing capabilities to what we are doing. With that said, and with this common passion, Do-It Corporation is acquiring Caney Creek Molds. What does this mean? Initially - all sales, operations, manufacturing, etc. will be moving to Do-It. Research, design and prototyping of soft plastics will continue as normal on Lake Fork. tpalmer, first off, welcome to TU. I was not assuming. Like I said I was speaking of the standard practices of larger companies in the plastic industry. I make plastic for a living on a large production scale. I had been in business a couple of years when I too had a similar offer, but basically what would have happened is that I would have taught the company to run the equipment and they would have canned me. I'm sorry to say, but this is also a standard practice. I also have a customer who had a company that wanted to buy him out for a set amount of money and they offered him 3% of total sales for 2 years or a job in research developement and testing. Does this sound familiar? I was not stating this to offend anyone and the current owner of CC made the move he felt like he had to make. I did not make the statement to offend you or tbilly. I merely went by my experience in the industry and what was printed on the former owner's forum above. smallmouthaholic, a couple of the companies do buy in 55 gallon drums now and repackage the product and 3 companies buy the component for plastisol and compound their own formulas. So, buying by the 55 gallon drum only really won't bring the cost down, but there are 3 ways that the cost may come down. first - they may buy their own components and compound their own material but these components are not sold by the 55 gallon drum, they're purchased in much larger quantities. So a very large facility is usually needed to do this. second - they can buy it by what's referred to as the tote. Which again is a much larger quantity than a 55 gallon drum. A 55 gallon drum is around 440 lbs. I could be mistaken but I think a tote is around 2000 lbs. third - they can buy 10 drums or more which may reduce the price per lb some, but it definitely reduces the shipping cost. 10 drums or more is the way I prefer to buy. I wonder about the moldmaking aspects myself. You've got to remember you were dealing with a Mom and Pop company that was completely run by the former owner and his wife. Now the molds will be run by someone paid to do the job at a larger company. And also since it was a Mom and Pop operation it was no problem speaking directly with the owner. Now you will deal with a larger company's customer service, which apparently is very good or they wouldn't have been in business 50+ years. Sometimes people are real anxious to take things the wrong way. That seems to be the way arguments get started on this forum. It's a discussion guys, don't be so easily offended.

Mark, I only stock three color eyes, red, gold and silver. I think those colors will cover almost anything you want to make. Eye color is personal preferance. I don't or rarely use eyes on the jigs I fish. It's more of a selling point for me. However eyes do make a jig look really good especially if you make a jig with light colors For some reason a white jig doesn't look complete if it has provisions for eyes and you don't put any in. These are the colors combos that I use. Red and silver eyes on blk, black/blue jigs, gold eyes on brown, green pumpkin and watermelon jigs. Now when you get into lighter colors, red looks really good on white, white/yellow chart and yellow chart. jigs. Silver also looks good on a white jig with silver sides and a black dorsal line. So to put it in a nutshell, whatever you think looks good is all that matters.

I don't think anyone is judging anyone on this topic..quite the opposite. People are entitled to their opinions. Time will tell if it was a good merger, buyout, combo of both or whatever it is. No one (to my knowledge) if wanting anyone to fail. I will say that I haven't seen a company that has taken a quantum leap in size and production, that didn't have quality control issues, customer service service issues (i.e. you don't have the same access, or fellowship u usually do in a church of 5000 that you do u do in a church of 50) in growing. As Gamiel said in the book of Acts.."if it's God, you won't be able to stop it and if it isn't of God, it'll come to nothing" ..it applies to a lot of things!!!

When you say pick, is it that thing that they call a bodkin? I have already decided to make my round heads more aspirin shape before I paint anymore that are getting these kinds of eyes. Thanks for the suggestions.

I wasn't sure looking at them if they would even hold up to leads high temps, so I called the owner, Jim Dailey. I told him what I was going to use the silicone for and he told me to use that one. Others may work, but that's the told me to use and dlaery on this website had used v330. So that helped

I would have gone with a custom rod and used a rain shadow blank or a phenix blank if you have any questions on this let me know thanks zac

Solar, Thanks for sharing. I apprieciate it. Certainly looks easy when done by a pro. I look forward to seeing the next one. Angus