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Guys my baits are still being made if anyone needs anything just shoot me a message on facebook......also just to let everyone know......I also build Flatshad baits now as well......Last summer when Sonny McFarland Retired he passed all of his equipment and templets to me.......I took some time off from building baits to build a larger shop to work in.......I am also kicking around the idea of selling lips ....belly weights and doing some custom flat bait Bodies as well.........Kind of a lure builders supply if you would say...Thanks Rob..."Jawjacker"..Cochran

Melting down 2 color plastics and making new laminate baits.... They came out pretty good!!!

I don't have the molds anymore but when I did it worked very well. Both molds are very user friendly and easy to shoot. My only suggestion would be to shoot just as many tails as you need for one time. If you shoot a bunch and store them often times the mold with the main bait is not as strong.

As for brushes; mine get used hundreds of times, be it epoxy or resin or whatever. I have two glass bottles, one with used acetone, the other with fresh. The first wash is with the used. I have a length of very hairy rough cut timber that I scrub the brushes on. This gets right into the roots of the brush. I then repeat with clean acetone. The used clean acetone is then poured into the first bottle. The debris settles, so take a few seconds every few uses to decant into a fresh bottle and you can make the most of the acetone. Dave

I understand the flushing concept and I like it - a lot. But, you are not flushing that middle cavity. The molds that worked, the lures look a lot thinner and they are all connected to a flushing vent. Perhaps the flushing reservoir(s) need to be increased, by extending with another pipe. You can then extend the flushing until you get it right. Finally trim the pipe to the length that works, so it acts as a guide. Something else to consider; the plastic takes the route of least resistance. You need to give the plastic a reason to flow through that middle cavity. The point of your thread was to share your method, which I don't recall seeing before, so well done for coming up with an original idea and putting it into practice, and good on you for sharing. But, if you show a problem, we all want to help you fix it Dave

I had a boss who told me, "You're gonna hafta work real hard to come up with a mistake that hasn't already been made".

Welcome to the Dark Side. There's no going back now. Ben

never tried da and acetone wish someone would have told me that before I threw several brushes away lol..