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Here is a link to YouTube video, it's from Derek Blaze, "The Pondbuster". His webpage is www.pondbuster.com

Really and truly there should be no "bones to pick" if you can't find the type of tackle you want at a cost you want to pay. This website is about building tackle so if what you want isn't available at what you consider a fair price then all you have to do is build it. And who knows, you might become an overnight success and get rich in the process. And if you get rich then maybe you won't mind paying a little extra. just my Ben

Cut the sides out of a plastic milk jug. They make some very nice stencils and they're easy to cut.

Make sure the Etec is mixed 50/50 and stir it for two minutes. Then let sit for 10 minutes before applying to the lure.

tekflip, I guess that would depend on what is floating around in that air. Createx? Maybe. An automotive urethane....NOT ME!!

I've done the illusion paint job using Columbia coatings silver vein and candy colors over top, a lot of guys have trouble with it but there is something they don't tell you, and that is the curing process. If you take silver vein powder and do a jig with it and then put a candy color over top, the colors will blend together and it will get really dark, the secret is to paint with the silver vein and then cure it and let it cool. Jig Armor says to cure for 10 minutes and then add the candy color, it works but results are better with full cure, sort of like doing table rock shad, you put the chartreuse on and then cure and then add purple, if not the purple will turn brown. When it comes to colors I think what ever gives the person confidence, some laugh at red hooks, I know 2 elite series pros that still put a red hook for the front of their cranks as they have confidence in it, and Davy Hite is one of them and he doesn't have a hook sponsor that he is pushing product, he just likes that set up. I also think guys want to differentiate their stuff from other stuff, most of us use Do-it molds and one thing I like about making tackle is you can give 10 guys the same mold and same combination of paint and skirt material and you will get back 10 different looking baits, we all like to put our own stamp on things and if a multi-color paint is what you like to do then go for it, same thing if you make every head black or blue or whatever, we put our stamp on it. Some like a lot of different colors in the skirt, some like the colors on the head, and others like it more simple, the truth is they all work, or it would be done but it all comes down to confidence, I don't do many colors on regular flipping jigs or hair jigs but swim jigs, I make one I call shell cracker that I use brown ,orange, and blue with and orange, blue and green pumpkin skirt, it was color of a big shell cracker sunfish that was pictured in an old sports afield magazine and I decided to try it out and it works...In clear water!!!! But is it the color or me??? If I could answer that I'd be a rich man but that is what is cool, we will never stop looking for the answer and as long as these cool powders are being made, we'll continue to use them in hopes of finding a good combination.

Mark, it's them Cali fish...they're different.

I don't mean that in a negative or deceptive way...we all know if you tie on a 6" purple Texas rigged plastic worm we will probably catch fish. Over time guys get convinced that the fish get conditioned to a color or a bait and stop throwing it...a good custom painted crankbait gives them (fisherman) the confidence that they are throwing something that few if any others on that lake have, thus fish have not seen it. My end is...if it gives them added confidence, they use it more, catch fish,...everyone is happy. Most of what we do is psychological anyway...